Our compilation for Pamukkale, not an official itinerary. The core of it is a single site: the travertine terraces and the ancient city of Hierapolis stand on the same hill, a few hundred metres apart, and the Direkli church belongs to the same ground.
Some stops sit away from that core. Laodikeia lies about ten kilometres south — a separate ancient city, large enough to take a morning on its own. The thermal centre at Gölemezli is north-west of the terraces and belongs to the same geology: the water that built the white terraces comes from the same system.
The order given here runs from the southern site up to the terraces and then north; taking it in reverse works equally well, and the hill is the fixed point either way.
