Bursa Travel Blogs

   Bursa city located is not far from Istanbul . It is not very big city and i think it is possible to explore it in one day.It takes 4 hours by bus. Also there is one other option is to  take ferry boat from  Istanbul Yenikapi harbour.I heard it is takes about two h…

People who contributed to, and improved my trip: Laco (Slovakia), Gulsah (Turkey) Bursa's bus station is inconveniently located 10kms out of town, so it took the best part of an hour to reach my couchsurfers house, which was located quite near the centre. For the next couple of days i …

After our buffet breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and drove into city traffic to find the Green Tomb and the Green Mosque, which were right next to each other. We got instructions from the hotel and pretty easily found them. The Green Tomb ws the tomb of Mehmet I, however it was under renovat…

I didnt fall in love with Turkey at first sight, it was winter - cold, gloomy and rainy but throughout the journey the skies cleared up and unveils the beautiful sights, unique culture and friendly people that is mesmerizing and immediately captures my heart...

İsmail skipped the first few hours of work to take me to the bus stop and hang out at a patisserie while I waited for my bus to the large city of Bursa, some five hours south of İstanbul. It was hard to say goodbye but soon I was off on yet another adventure. A shuttle bus took me from the b…

 We were up early the next morning, and on the road by 7:30am. I found the Turkish countryside suprisingly lovely - I’m not usually a fan of scenic vistas, but the mountains and farmland were beautiful. Turkish sheep are still watched over by shepherds, a practice that as far as I know is ov…

Bursa was once the capital of Ottoman Empire and by gradual development it became one of the biggest cities of modern Turkey. Today, a metropolitan with magnificent buildings of Ottoman and Byzantium architecture, amazing natural scenes, and with its modern parks which are increasing in number from…

  I took a ferry from the ferry terminal in Istanbul to land in bursa- the winter skiing capital of Turkey but this was only summers. Arriving on Saturday evening I didn’t think of it as a good decision but anyhow what’s done was done. The place I stayed was the old centre of the city tho…

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way