YOLO JOURNEY: PAMUKKALE, TURKEY

PAMUKKALE, TURKEY

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COTTON CASTLE

When going to Turkey, most tourist have in mind the image of the bright blue travertines of Pamukkale or known as “cotton castle”. The city contains hot springs and travertines, terraces of carbonatemineral left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey’s Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley. This cityhas a temperate climate for most of the year.

For this city, is has been a major industry because their hot springs and travertines realy attract the tourist. Futhermore, we also can bath in this pool and this activity have been started since thousand of years. At the mid-20^th century, a hotel is built and its causing considerable damage to the cotton castle. When this cotton castle was declared as a World Heritage Site, the hotel were demolished and the road is removed and have been replaced with artificial pool. Wearing shoes in pool also prohibited to protect the world’s heritage.

Pamukkale’s terraces are made of travertine, a sedimentary rock deposited by water from the hot springs. There is 17 hot water springs with temperature range from 35 ‘C to 100’C.

Turkey largest city is Istanbul. Turkey was monopoly by the Turks by 75%, 18% from kurds. The official language of this country is Turkish. So when you want to go to Turkey makesure you know the basic of Turkish to avoided to be cheated. The total of the population are 75,627,384. The Turkish lira (TRY) is the currency of Turkey. The currency between Ringgit Malaysia and Turkish lira is 1 Malaysian Ringgit = 0.6311 Turkish lira.

There is no need to worry about the food or the level of cleanliness because Turkey is a Islam country and Halal foods are easy to find and have a variety of delicious halal food.

This is summary of our journey to get to Pamukkale, Turkey that the distance is 4970 Miles from Malaysia.

· 10.2-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (ISGIA).
The distance between Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (ISGIA) to The Pamukkale is about 649 km. There is five services from Istanbul everyday or get to Pamukkale by train from Istanbul (1 time a day, 14 hours in a way)

If you want to go to the Pamukkale and also want to visited the other interesting places in Turkey or its capital city which is Istanbul, there is a top recommended and suggested travel agencies. There are www.tours4turkey.com that can give you a big satisfaction to choose Turkey as your vacation destination.