Turkey, Istanbul

After a short plane trip from Cairo we arrived in Istanbul, late that evening. With a good night's sleep under our belt we got up early to begin our day of sight seeing. Istanbul is very easy to walk around so there was no need for public transport, our for stop was Topkapi Palace and a gorgeous little tea place that had a fantastic view of Seraglio Point and the ferries doing there trip between Europe and Asia.
After our morning tea we did our walk around all the church's including Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.



Next stop was the place I was looking forward to the most the Gran Bazaar! Shopping! We spent an hour browsing and looking around, it is massive and I am pretty sure we didn't even get to do half of it!



We were starving from all that window shopping so it was straight to the kebab house for a big meal of Turkish food.....meat :-). The view from the restaurant was amazing just like the food:-).


After lunch we went for a walk along the river, it was all happening along here with cool little restaurants in particular the ones in the photo below had there kitchen on these rocking boats.


We promptly found a comfy couch to pull up at for an afternoon beer and sheisha as the sun set. After the sunset our next mission was to go and get some of the best baklava in Turkey and it was delicious!



We spent the evening walking around the Tophane district and finished with a cocktail at a bar that had an awesome view of Istanbul.



The next day we had booked a Bosphorous cruise, it was very cold and very windy and not very exciting but it was a day out on the water doing something different and we did get lunch :-).






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Location:Turkey, Istanbul