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Regular Daily Istanbul Tours

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Tags: Istanbul, Tours, travel, Turkey
City: Istanbul, Turkey
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I arrived after a journey of 14 hours from Kyoto to Istanbul airport. Private airport transfer was first settled in the Sultanahmet district, the hotel is special. spacious rooms, the hotel is very special. I did and bodrum airport transfer I had a very nice breakfast in the morning black coffee. We went to meet up with our guide Hippodrome. The lady was very intelligent and well-informed guide who. Gave a detailed information about Istanbul, which is the first part of the Asian continent, a part of the European continent is the only city. Was the cultural capital of the world in 2010. bzantum from greece lived here for the first time in GoldenHorn. It has been the capital of the Roman Empire period, HIPODROME an arena built in this period, OBELISK two are from Egypt. Here is where a large number of games, competitions, theater serfilenmiştir show. Finally, as a gift to the German emperor German Fountain, built by the Ottoman sultan.

Eastern Roman Empire period were HAGIA SOPHIA . As this is an orthodox church was built by Justinian five years . Hagia sophia tile mosaic and tile on the inside there
are many . The dome is very large and six minarets were added later , then a mosque Hagia sophia serves as a museum .* Blue Mosque* built in the name of Sultan Ahmet . 7 ylda was built by the master architect Mehmet Sedefkar . The spectacular architecture of a work of art . istanbul each seems to be the point . There is a wonderful blue tiles and tiles on the inside . There is a huge dome . TOPKAPI PALACE *Ottoman Empire during the first palace built in Istanbul , this is a very large garden and palace, composed of two-storey buildings . Has this office administrative center of the *Ottoman Empire , this is a very valuable treasure treasure room is ruby gold, silver and diamonds . There is a very large dining hall and a wide range of Chinese goods made ​​of porcelain and gold and silver cutlery on display. Harem Sultan called his family lived , and relatives .

Finally, in the square of beyzıt are GRAND BAZAAR. This is a very special 500 years old bazaar, where a large number of the jewelry, crafts, souvenirs, clothes and a wide variety of leather jackets, carpets, cappadocia airport transfer and finally a very nice hand sokuması turkish delight sweets are sold here. In the evening I went to Taksim and Istiklal street wou were a variety of entertainment centers and restaurants.