Look at how beautiful this is.

It looks like snow.

But it's not it's really that's calcium and minerals.

Yeah so that is the main area where all the tourists can go explore the thermal baths.

Uh But this area back here this is an area you can walk around and look at it but you can't walk on traveling because there um trump preserve what I believe.

Plus there is no more of that blue water here anyway.

But I mean it's still beautiful.

You get gorgeous view overlooking city.

So.

Yeah right now it's um 6:30 Now an hour and a half before sunset.

There's still some people out there but if you go way at the end it looks like there's less people so everybody's gonna gathered up front here.

But further down you go there's less than those people.

So if you want good pictures just go all the way to the end or come at sunrise.

They actually open at 6:30 AM.

Um but on the south gate entrance, so make sure you don't mix the entrances if you go to the main entrance that opens up at eight.

But if you go to the south gate entrance at 6 30 so we're gonna come back at 6 30 most likely there'll be less people.

We could take better pictures so we're kind of like scoping it out right now.

Yeah, we'll have to pay twice for um the entrance fee.

But we were okay with that.

This place is huge because it's mixed in with the the ancient ruins, heroic lists I believe.

And then the traveling teams kind of surrounded mhm mm.

Mhm.

Yeah, limestone is actually kind of hurt your feet so you have to walk barefoot.

The water here actually feels good right now.

Yeah, but be careful walking to because some areas are slippery.

So here I am at public collar.

I almost can't believe I'm here.

Very, very nice.

Also fun fact mama call it literally means cotton Castle Pamuk means cotton and carla means castle.

It's also a unesco world heritage like this.

Watch your step here.

Okay.

Some areas really hurt one of the wine stones like this, especially painful.

The other areas are soft.

Yeah and other areas are very simply to walk on.

I think that it feels good.

Okay.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Out really hurts when you step on the sharp lime stones.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We are back at the thermal springs in pharmacology and we came at 6 30 this morning because that's what time they open at the south gate only the south gate, not the main gate Um and they open at 6:30.

They won't let you in earlier.

Um but yeah, we see some air balloons right next to it so it looks amazing.

The air balloons are so close that we can hear um them firing it up.

So yeah, this is really pretty.

Um So far were like the first ones here.

So you might have it all to ourselves.

So crazy how close it is.

I don't think I've ever seen a terrible in this close.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Mhm.

Um Yeah, I got done with our morning shots.

Yeah, for a good like 2 2.5 hours.

There was nobody here except for us actually.

There was one other couple that was shooting and the rest of time we pretty much have a place all to ourselves and it was really nice.

Great lighting.

Not that hot, it was like 65, and it's the end of May.

So sorry, just watch out for your steps here.

Some of the rocks are so hard.

I got bruises on the bottom of my feet because there's ridges on these limestone rocks and you know sometimes I don't know where a step and a step in the wrong spot and Oh yeah, it hurts.

But there are some smoother parts that you could walk on, but there's also slippery parts too.

So you really need to be careful.

This is the view in the morning.

These people coming.

This is gorgeous.

It really looks like snow.

Old roman.

Okay.

Mm hmm.

These here are tombs.

There's a total of 2000 tombs around here and well the bodies aren't in there anymore.

They took them somewhere else.

But yeah, there's a whole bunch of them here.

You can still see some of inscriptions there.

This is amazing.

Look at how here's that tomb is.

Yeah.

Mm mm mm This is a shopping market and there's three doors here and only the king and queen can go back through this door.

But if you're poor you have to go around the book.

So this used to be a bizarre and this was the bathroom here to the side.

You just can't take a peek around here.

Yeah, compare actually.

Um I mean it looks really nice.

Yeah.

And this is, this was the entrance into the bazaar.

Mm mhm A lot of people here.

Oh wow, this is really well preserved.

Really beautiful.

Oh this was like for fighting.

Mm hmm.

The gladiators came out here and family and necessarily people reach people, poor people is here poor people's right represent that's like in America.

Now I can't afford a Yeah.

All right.

So we got to check out how Mukalla thermal hot springs and check out the ancient city here A palace.

Which was really great.

I highly recommend doing that because you know it's a significant part of al Mukalla.

It's um an ancient city that's 3000 years old.

And if you want to do a quick one hour tour there's like some uh golf carts in the front of the south gate where we were entered through.

And um it was only what less than 30 bucks for an hour tour for two people.

So I thought that was really great.

It's totally worth it because the city is huge.

So if you want to walk it you can but it'll be pretty brutal because it gets hot in Parma College.

I mean end of May and it was close to 100 degrees so it'll be pretty tough walking in that weather anyway.

Learn a lot of great stuff about the city.

Um And of course that there are more springs are beautiful.

Got to go in the mornings before everybody gets there or stay late for sunset.

Mhm.