The Blue Mosque

Day 84 - Exhausted in Istanbul

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September 23rd 2023
Now that the riding is over we can take it easy and rest up, right? Well, that's not how it panned out today. We left the apartment shortly after 8:30am with a list of 6 things to see. 1. The Blue Mosque 2. Topkapi Palace 3. Basilica Cistern 4. Hagia Sofya Mosque 5. Grand Bazaar 6. Galata Tower Although we had metro cards we plotted a course in google maps that took us to each of the ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more