Pamukkale, which means ‘Cotton Castle’ in Turkish, is known as 8th world
wonder by Turkish people. Pamukkale is a natural site and a famous
tourist attraction in south-western Turkey in the Denizli Province.
The temperature of the water forming the travertines, which issues from
the hot springs on the hills above, falls to around 33 C° lower down.
The travertines here have a concentric appearance and are almost sheer
white giving the area an ethereal, other worldly appearance. The hot
springs precipitate calcium carbonate at their mouths and produce the
strange almost organic looking structures. People still come in numbers
to experience the curing effects of the water, which is said to help
with high blood pressure, eye and skin diseases and circulation
problems among many others. Yet for many it is simply the spectacle of
the place which draws them to Pamukkale, the Cotton Castle.
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