Istanbul Trip: when to go, visas, costs, hotels, airport transport, what to see, restaurants, shopping, buses, mosques, museums, hamams & more, by Tom Brosnahan
The only city in the world that encompasses both Asia and Europe, Istanbul also straddles the ancient and modern worlds. The ghosts of marauding Crusaders and marching janissaries haunt the city's historic alleyways-but this is no museum: the Bosporus is still a buzzing artery for maritime trade, and the sounds of building construction play a constant counterpoint to the shouts of street hawkers and the call of the muezzin.
Istanbul Trip: when to go, visas, costs, hotels, airport transport, what to see, restaurants, shopping, buses, mosques, museums, hamams & more, by Tom Brosnahan
The only city in the world that encompasses both Asia and Europe, Istanbul also straddles the ancient and modern worlds. The ghosts of marauding Crusaders and marching janissaries haunt the city's historic alleyways-but this is no museum: the Bosporus is still a buzzing artery for maritime trade, and the sounds of building construction play a constant counterpoint to the shouts of street hawkers and the call of the muezzin.
