Day 5 – Istanbul Sightseeing
- Breakfast at hotel
- Visit Topkapi Palace, a little long journey on bus
- Spent nearly 2 hours inside the marvelous Ottoman palace, which is not only a palace now, but also a museum housing a large collection items from the Ottoman period and before
- Lunch on the roadside (the same sandwich, but we are used to it now…
) - Visit Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya Mosque, which is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum
- Spent about 1 hour on the 2 floors and this had a strange stairs to go up
- Visit the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Sultanahmet Camii or Blue Mosque)
- It was strange that we were allowed to go into this historical mosque (carrying our shoes in a bag)
- Went inside and spent about 30mins
- Walk, Walk and Walk to Grand Bazaar
- Shop some souvenirs
- Return to hotel
- Turkish Night on a boat on the Bosphorus
- Dinner and then Dance till 1am
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