Start your tour in the early morning with a pickup from your centrally located Marmaris hotel. Board your air-conditioned coach and travel to a restaurant for an included buffet breakfast of cheese, egg, olives, salad, bread and tea and coffee.
On your way to Pamukkale, stop at a carpet weaving center to see how Turkey’s carpets are produced. Then, after a break for refreshments (own expense), continue to Pamukkale, roughly 1.5 hours away. Here, visit a restaurant for a complimentary buffet lunch, accompanied by drinks that are available at your own expense.
Afterward, continue to UNESCO-listed Pamukkale itself, which means ‘Cotton Castle’ in Turkish. This incredible site was formed over the millennia as calcium bicarbonate hardened while flowing down 656-foot (200m) cliffs. With time here spent at your leisure, gaze at the glistening white, calcified terraces and basins and take photos of the fairytale-like formations around you.
Next, walk to the archaeological site of Hierapolis, a ruined Greco-Roman spa city founded in around 190BC that lies above Pamukkale's terraces. Enjoy free time to wander around the ruined temples and streets, and see the stunning, 12,000-seater theater and haunting necropolis, a cemetery of 1,200 tombs.
Before leaving, perhaps take a swim in Cleopatra’s Pool (own expense). Wade into the warm waters of this Roman-built pool and swim over the marble Roman pillars submerged in its depths.
Board your coach and relax on your return journey. After a stop at an onyx factory on route, your tour ends with an evening drop-off at your hotel in Marmaris.
