We hope you did enjoy this journey of Istanbul as much as we did. These posts were a way to share with you what we saw. We could have shown more and more things...
Like the Grand bazar. Unfortunately, it was kapali (closed) during our entire stay because of bayram, national holiday... Too bad, we'll have to go back only to see it. It's a medieval "shopping center" (4,000 shops) where you can buy all kind of things, especially local art (carpet, furniture, porcelain...)
Like the Grand bazar. Unfortunately, it was kapali (closed) during our entire stay because of bayram, national holiday... Too bad, we'll have to go back only to see it. It's a medieval "shopping center" (4,000 shops) where you can buy all kind of things, especially local art (carpet, furniture, porcelain...)
Sunken Palace Cistern (Yerebatan Saray): an subterranean "sunken palace" of 336 marble columns which could hold 80,000 cubic feet of water in case of drought or siege. Very interesting !!
The Bosphorus Cruise: a excursion, up toward the Black Sea past castles, palaces and Ottoman-Victorian villages. On one side of the river: Europe, on the other side: Asia.
A fish boat
The Bosphore: The bridge between Europe and Asia!
or the Kariye Museum (The Chora Church) and its gorgeous Byzanthine mosaics. It is apparently the best conserved Byzantine mosaics in the world!
We do hope that, thanks to these posts, we made you want to visit Istanbul and, by the same way, to visit us !
magnifiques photos
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martin & dom
the bridge is very nice indeed, but it looks so much like OUR Ma Wan bridge in HongKong... Did you steal it to us ????
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