Istanbul

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The Turkish/ Bulgaria Border Crossing was the biggest load of crap .. the bus spent more time at the border then actually drivin.. all this because the bus after the usual passport checks and othr stuff which took long enough anyway the bus would go into a que to get the luggage searched so after waitin in that que for about 2 hours it was time for our bus to get everyones luggage searched so everyone got out put there bags on the thing to be searched then once everyone done that they just told us to get back on the bus they didnt even have one look at anyones bags, they could of atleast done a little search so it wasnt pointless in waiting around at 6 in the mornin at the border...
anyhoo the once i got to the main bus station in istanbul which is massive and crazy.. and 10km out of the main part of the city i worked out how to get to sultanhment with this annoyin french guy that was flollowin me first had to catch a train then the tram.. then once at the in the main part i found my way to the hostel after telling the french dude that i dont want any mornin tea right now.. i got to the hostel and went to sleep then when i woke up he was gone thankfully...
after havin a nap the 2 other aussies that id met in plovdiv,veliko and sofia where there aswell so we went out and had a look around town.. the next few days was spent doin the usual. lookin at the sights etc etc includin the Grand Bazzaar which i go completely lost in for hours. we crossed the bosphorus to go onto the asian side and saw i taxi driver on a rampage over there with his stick beatin up some other driver.. after havin a look at the asian side we went back to europe side..
after that we met a few more people who we went out drinkin with.. we went to taksim a few times once to see a band which were priddy good and another time to some 5 floor nightclub which was priddy dead..
Istanbul is a realyy big place i spent 7 days there and liked the place.. its a more expensive then wat i thought it would be but not to expensive..
after Istanbul i caught the train to Bucharest Romania

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Photos

Blue Mosque
the famous blue Mosque

aya sofia
originally a church tranformed into a mosque

tea men
these guys sold turkish tea or coffee or somthin

another Mosque
another mosque with an airborne bottle thrown by matt

across the river
picture is of the other side of the river towards the taksim side

view from the boat
taken from the boat goin leavin europe side to visit the asian side of turkey

on the asian side
tom and matt walkin on the asian side

small island house
where some princess lived to keep her away from men or somthin theres a story behind it

in a taxi
on our way to get drunk in taxim

Taxi Driver
Brian from the US takin control of the taxi

Club
at a club in Taksim, Brian at the back, from left Josh, Trevor also from the US, Lorna from canada and me

still at Club
Josh and Brian at front.., from left Mustafa(american turk livin in turkey), Trevor (australian), me, and chris(australian)

near grand bizzaar
lots of people near grand bizzarr

one of the entrances to grand Bizaar
im already lost at this stage

suburb
cool suburb i wondered into

fishin from the bridge
lots of fisherman fishin for fish