Tour Duration :
3 - 3,5 hrs
Min.# of guests :
10 guests
Max.# of guests :
N/A
Meals :
No
Refreshments :
No
Walking Level :
Easy
Dress Code :
No special
reccommendation. |
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This trip, specially designed for guests looking to avoid the physical activity required to see many of Istanbul’s historic sites, offers a fairly comprehensive tour of the city’s most important and most beautiful monuments.
On today’s tour you will see the best of both continents, beginning with a motor coach ride from the pier, across the bridge spanning the lovely Bosphorus, and into Asia. Your guide will point out the Beylerbeyi Palace, 19th-century European style palace sitting gracefully on the Asian shore, and the wooden yali houses standing on the coast of the strait. At a nice point, you will have a photo stop to take photos of the only city in the world spreading over two continents.
Heading back across to Europe, you’ll pass the ancient city walls and the gorgeous Suleymaniye Mosque, the Byzantine Hippodrome that once seated 100,000, and will stop for a visit to the exquisite Blue Mosque, fantastic inside and out, with 30 domes and six fluted minarets, and covered inside by 21,000 17th century Iznik tiles. You really must go inside to experience the inexplicable feeling of peace that resonates through this marvellously spacious and beautifully decorated mosque. You’ll also see main gate of Topkapi Palace, the seat of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years, the exterior of Haghia Sophia, which, built in 563, still towers on the skyline.
Finally, we stop at the Grand Bazaar, the legendary covered market, the largest in the world, where you can take a slice of Istanbul home with you...
At the end of the program return to the pier or to the hotel |
