Sunday morning was spent at another jaw dropping ruin, Aphrodisias which is an ancient Roman city dedicated to Aphrodite. The statue of Aphrodite was in the enclosed museum along with about 100 other excellent Roman statues, but the real stunner was the coliseum. 30,000 Romans could attend and watch races, gladiator fights etc. This is the most well preserved coliseum in the world.
Then it was on to Pamukkale which is a mountain where hot waters have created limestone deposits and made a landscape of petrified waterfalls and basins. The ruins of another Roman city called Hierapolis was known as an ancient Roman health spa because of the waters. Apparently there is quite a cemetery here (didn’t see it) due to a lot of people coming to the town to cure an illness and not being cured. How do they know all these things?? Inquiring minds want to know.
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