Plaza Hotel Istanbul

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A day of sightseeing in Istanbul

A travel blog entry by arnies

This morning we headed off on a full day tour of this amazing city. A false start when they forgot to collect us from our hotel and had to send someone to collect us and take us to the Spice Market which the rest of the tour, minus the Arnotts, had begun to explore. The Spice Market is huge and sells every imaginable spice on the face of the earth, as you will see from the pics. Quite in your face trying to sell you stuff. We bought some ...

Turkey.

A travel blog entry by levinson5

... I had a great time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!! P.S
and sill ...

Istanbul

A travel blog entry by michael.sandi

... t a lot we wanted to buy actually. People kept thinking we were Japanese, then guessing we were Korean, Singaporean, etc, etc. There were quite a bit of touting too. Although, we particularly liked the stalls selling the beautiful lights. If only we could actually buy some but we don’t have anywhere to put it, as we don’t have our own place at the moment. We will just have to revisit Turkey (and all the other places) for souvenir ...

Day 236 - Ayasofia

A travel blog entry by craigadventure

... in, joining the other 500 or so tourists (not nearly all western). It was busy but manageable as we took in the visuals and the history of this incredible landmark.

In fact, on this site there were 2 prior churches by the same name but they were destroyed and rebuilt. The current structure was originally constructed as a church between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and was the 3^rd Church of the Holy Wisdom ...

The golden horn of Istanbul

A travel blog entry by waynedale

... can I help you?" moments. Customer service and state run trains don't go hand in hand, it seems.

I didn't have all my Turkish notes with me and this is a language that doesn't enter my brain too easily. It's unlike any other language I'm familiar with and although there are some slight similarities to Arabic (a few words), that wasn't helping me. After asking him the usual "Sprechen Sie deutsch? Do you speak English? Parlez vous francais?" he shrugged his shoulders ...