Istanbul Day 5 048

Istanbul Day 5

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September 27th 2011
Today was wonderful! We slept in till about 9:00am then headed off to the Grand Bazaar to do some shopping. Shopping here involves a lot of haggling and bargaining...everything can be negotiated. Rule of thumb is to take whatever price they give you cut it in half to get close to the right price. We ended up with a few trinkets here and there. Mom is quite indeiscive and we ended up spending almos ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul » Sultanahmet

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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