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Published: February 27th 2013
Blue Mosque
Amazing Mosque. It is so quiet and peaceful inside of itIt has been longtime since I decided to go to Istanbul. I used to check everyday flights, hotels information and tourism blogs. But, finally I bought my ticket for December 2012.
I did this travel by my own.. "Are you crazy?; how could you dare to travel by yourself, a woman, in an islamic country?". But, trust me, it has been amazing!!
First of all, the city is just gorgeous; I have too many words to describe Istanbul: all is full of colors, magical, exotic, enigmatic.. I was so excited since I landed at the Atatürk airport; but I had some trouble with turkish language. I took the subway until Meter station and then metrobus until Acibadem station. That was so hard 'cause my pronunciation in turkish was awful, and nobody could speak english (I have to explain that on Asian side it's not very commmon to find turkish people who speaks english). Finally I met this guy from Couchsourfing at the Acibdaem station as we had planned before, and took me dinner: Kebab my first dish in Istanbul and Ayran (I loved Ayran: refreshing drink with yoghurt, salt and water).
Next day: Sultanahmet! My first visit was
Blue Mosque
We have to take the shoes off; there is an space for tourists, we can only watch muslims pray to Aya Sofia. I was in shock! I did see many pcitures from Aya Sofia and Blue Mosque, but at that moment, I couldn't explain what I was looking at; they're gorgeous. I took my shoes off once I entered to Blue Mosque, it is a very peaceful place.
One of the best moments of my trip: To listen from the mosques at the same time a kind of arabic song that calls people to pray
At the end of the day, I visited Topkapi Palace, the place where sultans used to live. It is huge but quite interesting to visit it.
Bad thing: It was december, so sunset is earlier and my tourist day used to end at 5:00 pm.
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