Monday, April 25, 2011

Hierapolis of Phrygia






In Turkey we visited an ancient Necropolis "City of Death." It was known as a place of medicine, people would go here to die or to get better. The streets are basically lined with tombs and mausoleums, pretty morbid. At the end there was a small city with an amphitheater and town gathering space "Agora." There were also natural hot springs. Some of the springs close to the town they made somewhat of a water park out of them. Literally it was a pool on top of ancient fallen buildings that people could swim in. If you walked a little further there was a mountain full of warm springs with a small stream flowing through it. It looks all white because of the calcium build up. It was a really awesome site to see and relaxing to sit on the edge of the hot stream and dip my feet in.

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