Volcanic Lake

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Out and about with Ibrahim.  

He is an interesting man, we enjoyed his company very much.  He chatted to us for awhile to get an idea of the types of places we would like to see, then we left him to decide where we went.
Golludag  Crater a deserted volcanic lake was our first stop.  A reminder that we owe this unique landscape to Volcanic activity thousands of years ago.  The volcanic ash which covered the plateau  formed a soft porous layer called tuff.  Later to be topped with a layer of basalt.
Eons passed, the basalt began to crack, rainwater found it's way into the porous tuff below and the process of erosion which produced the formations we see today was underway.  

When we arrived at Golludag Lake we found one other visitor.  A man, determined to soak his bones in the naturally hot sulphureous water was scooping out the yellow deposit which accumulates around the edge of the lake.
He invited us to join him in his natural hot tub but unfortunately we hadn't brought our swim suits!
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