Who wants to go Sunset?

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Because this post is wayyy late (started it before I left for my trips last week, poor thing has just been sitting  here all alone) it's just going to be pics on pics of Pamukkale and a few stories from our time there.

I like documenting the World Heritage site signs, if you couldn't tell 

We got to experience all of the splendor of the Pamukkale Hierapolis and travertines over a long relaxing weekend. A while ago we seduced convinced a few ticket booth guys to make us student museum cards, because we do sort of have Turkish student ids....sort of. But now that we have them they've turned out to be one of the best parts of the trip!! They get us in to almost any site/museum/ruins FO FREE. We have saved so many lire-hairs.For instance, it was 20TL/person to get into the travertines, but since we had the cards we went Saturday AND Sunday and just hung out in the pools of water. Beautiful.

Something that made me SO happy was hearing that the condition of the travertines has greatly improved since being declared a protected site. Everyone has to take their shoes off to climb them, whereas year ago people would apparently do things like ride motorcycles up them....cool guys. Learning about the trials and tribulations of cultural preservation this year made me really appreciate witnessing the positive effects first-hand. Woo UNESCO!

Work it

Just tryna watch the game bro

Creeper pic of the thermal pool
People just casually swimming with ruins

Chomp

Here's where the title of the post comes from. We went on a lovely sunset tour put on by our hotel's quirky staff, that ended up being free (we'll never know if that was on purpose or not!). We end up trespassing over this huge gate to get to a flat spot overlooking the expanses of Göreme and watched that molten ball that keeps us all alive dip below the mountains.

All of these pictures will probably look the same to you

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More to come very soon! As in I've already written the next post. Until then...