Istanbul Travel Blogs

---- Princess Islands - Büyükada ----Yeah finally i broke a new record lool, this is a torturing but i love walking haha and taking photos for sure, i woke up at 5 am on saturday and started to travel around princess islands of istanbul, first i was in heybeliada(Heybeli island) then i passed…

Near the edge of the water where the Golden Horn meets the Bosphorus, in Eminönü, Istanbul stands the New Mosque or the Yeni Camii. If you stand on the Galata Bridge, you can see this lovely mosque - it is not the big one to the right of the skyline behind which the sun sets called the Süle…

about to leave on a flight to Bodrum. Snowy/rain in istanbul yesterday and snowing right now. cold. not much to do but sit around insıde. won in cards yesterday making my comeback, sorry phil!

The next morning we woke up early as well; again to the Morning Prayer at 6am but this time we didn’t hear the night receptionist join in. We looked at each other and decided to again be the early raisers and go for breakfast. We were the first but as the day before a lot of the other people from…

Turkuazoo is the largest aquarium in Istanbul that situated in the area named Bayrampasha. It has been completed few weeks ago . In spite of that many people go there and attract people with it unusual and plenty beautiful types of fish.To reach that place you should take a metro line Aks…

Fellow photography Jill and I took a taxi from the hotel to the airport together, since we had the same flight to London. We got on the taxi, made sure he started the meter. However, a little while later, I noticed that he wasn't taking the direct route over the Ataturk Bridge to the airport, inste…

We have had a great month in Turkey, but definitely feel the urge to move on to something new.  Next stop: Romania! We passed through Istanbul on our way to Bucharest. Here are a few shots from Turkish Air's awesome Business Class lounge, where we waited for our flight. 

This blog I would like to contribute to Birol. I owed him a lot this trip. He was really nice taking his 2 days off work showing me around Istanbul for 4 days. We went to some tourist attractions as mentioned in Fatih's blogs and also some local hang out places and met some of his friends. It was g…

  ISTANBUL - THE CROSSROADS OF EUROPE AND ASIA   There was a sensational silly song written in 1953 by Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon about one of the world's truly great cities. This tune has been recorded by a variety of artists, including Bette Midler, They Mig…

After a 10+ hour flight from JFK, finally arrived in Istanbul. Was so tired since I really didn't sleep much. I just cannot ever get comfortable enough on planes to be able to really sleep. I think I dozed on and off for maybe an hour or so, that's it. Even though I was tired as all hell, I was so …

People who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia), Hakan (Turkey) On Friday we were going to join some other couchsurfers and visit some sights, but when we found out how much the admission fees were, so instead opted to go for a walk. The weather was superb…

My last day in Istanbul: it’s unbelievable that I’ve been here for 2 1/2 months.  The time has flown by and I'll be sad to leave, but I also think it's time to go:  much longer and I think I'd start to really feel guilty about not doing anything terribly productive, and also about…

This was definitely the summer of my life! backpacked with 2 of my friends down the coast of Turkey and then crossed over into Greece for a bit of island hopping...had a crazy, fun, fabulous time with 2 of my best girls!

Im baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.  To Istanbul that is.  What a great trip!  Turkey truly is an awesome place to visit!  Yesterday, we arrived to our hotel to find that it was fully booked so they had to move us to a different hotel.  We were told we were being upgraded...um. NOPE! …

On our way to Istanbul, they announced that we will pass through the Dardanelles straits by 4:00-6:30 am, and three war memorials will be visible from the ship, so I decided to take the opportunity and wake up early again to try to shoot them. Apparently only a few persons did the same. Luckily I m…