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Stay with the group.
Today was my first day in Istanbul and it was hectic. Alexis and I were starving last night so we decided we'll get to breakfast right when they open (7) and get ready and have breakfast again, so we'll be ready to leave with the group at 10. We overslept, we woke up at 10. So we rushed to get ready, we felt gross because we didn't have time to …
Sing sing sing
We got to Istanbul around 4ish and the ride was pretty uneventful. When
we got to Istanbul, we freshened up, checked our email and then Lex and I
went to the Grand Bazaar. We spent about an hour and a half just losing
ourselves through the maze. We would just take a turn, not really
caring about proper directions. It was nice to …
Finally in Istanbul!
... entered a ferry dock and queued up behind other vehicles. Within minutes, we were onboard a massive ferry carrying all manner of vehicles - private cars, buses and trucks - tightly parked for optimum use of space on the deck. We could even get out of the bus and make our way through the parked vehicles to the upper deck to enjoy a bit of a stretch and the nighttime lights on both shores before the chilly winds shooed us back indoors. The 15km stretch was completed in a ...
Türkmenistan
... spoke some English. I immediately told him how Buxoro is the most beautiful city in the world, raved on and on about the places I saw we saw there and the great hospitality we experienced there and so on, and it worked. We were whished to the front of the line, told not to bother filling out exit forms, and told only to show our passports.
The speed was only slowed when they saw on my passport that I had entered at Andijon, ...
Our Arrival and Getting Acquainted with Istanbul
... we'll be spending most of our time with. Lindsay is a lecturer at Ridley College, and has visited Istanbul a couple of times already. He's a great asset to have around, since he knows a lot about the area and what's worth doing or seeing. Ben, Ali and Steph are students at Ridley, and Mel and I make up the six.We worked our way into the narrow streets near the mosque, looking for somewhere to eat dinner and all the while trying to avoid being run over by crazy ...
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