My Moon Bar/Restaurant Gumbet Turkey

We spent every other night here partying with the bar workers from Kurdistan who dance for you, wait on you and treat you like family. Needless to say, Ingrid was the Queen of the Ball!

Traditional Turkish Meal

We can't remember what this was called, but it's beef, chicken or lamb (you choose) with veggies cooked in a clay pot and served tableside still flaming. It was delicious!

Pamukkale

A trip here to the calcium/limetsone and chalk travertines and hot springs was by far the most interesting and impressive thing we did in Turkey. It is also the site of the ancient city of Hierapolis, so if you are short on time, it makes more sense to go here for 2 days and skip Efus. There are the travertines, which you can walk on, Cleopatra's thermal pool to swim in, the ruins, a museum filled with marble statues and amazing views every where you look. We spent the night in a hotel nearby that had a thermal pool with HOT (110F+) red waters filled with iron - good for the skin but WOW, was it hot. You can see the steam coming off the water in the photo with Ingrid and the rooster - symbolic bird of this part of Anatolia. The only thing that worried me was if the ground is this thermally active, earthquakes are very common.