About 722,000 foreign and Turkish tourists visited Pamukkale, which takes place on the list of UNESCO World Heritage, in the first six months of 2013. Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is ...

A night museum will boost tourism in the historic Pamukkale region of Türkiye with an expected 3 million visitors in 2024. Pamukkale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Denizli province, offers a ...

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Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Once the Roman equivalent of a health spa, the spectacular rock formations below the ...

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.

In southwestern Turkey, Pamukkale’s white terraces look like a staircase carved from clouds. These bright, rounded pools, stacked neatly down the hillside, form naturally from mineral springs that ...

The surreal, brilliant white travertine terraces and warm, limpid pools of Pamukkale hang, like the petrified cascade of a mighty waterfall, from the rim of a steep valley side in Turkey’s picturesque ...

Terry Richardson is co-author of The Rough Guide to Turkey, writer of The Rough Guide to Istanbul, and writes frequently about Turkey for a well-known English-language Turkish newspaper. He also helps ...