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The Self-Guided Walks cover Istanbul’s most intriguing neighborhoods: the historic core of the city, the back streets of the Old Town, the Golden Horn, and the New District. Sights provides a succinct overview of the most important sights, arranged by neighborhood, with ratings: sss-Don’t miss.
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The “Planning Your Time” section suggests a day-to-day schedule for how to best use your limited time. Here’s what you’ll find in the following chapters: Orientation includes a verbal map of Istanbul, tourist information, specifics on public transportation, and other helpful hints.
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While Rick is not a co-author, he is committed to the quality of this book and contributed to this update by personally visiting nearly every sight covered in this book. As Turkish natives and residents of Istanbul, Lale and Tankut give you an insightful, knowledgeable look at this exciting and complex destination. Better yet, it’s actually two tour guides in your pocket: The authors of this book are Lale Surmen Aran and Tankut Aran, who have been guiding Rick Steves’ tours in Turkey for more than a decade. Rick Steves’ Istanbul is a personal tour guide in your pocket. And as their nation starts down the long and winding road to European Union membership, the Turks are more Western-facing and welcoming than ever.
Turkey has long been the most exciting and inviting cultural detour from Europe. And, as the biggest city of a moderate Muslim nation, Istanbul also offers the inquisitive traveler a unique opportunity to grapple with the rich and inspiring Islamic faith: hear the eerie wail of the call to prayer echo across the rooftops, poke into a neighborhood mosque, and watch a Dervish whirl in prayer. Once called Byzantium, then Constantinople, Istanbul boasts the opulent trappings of an epic past-from the Byzantine emperors and the Ottoman sultans of the distant ages, to the modern Republic-builders and “Eurocrats” of our own time. Few places on earth have seen more history than this sprawling metropolis on the Bosphorus. For millennia, this point where Europe meets Asia has been the crossroads of civilization. Istanbul is one of the world’s great cities, period. And enjoy meeting some of the planet’s friendliest people, whether you’re chatting with a fisherman on a bustling bridge, haggling for a carpet, learning about Islam from a peaceloving Muslim, or playing backgammon with a grizzled old Turk. Inhale the apple-flavored smoke from a water pipe as you listen to the strains of exotic music. Set sail on the Golden Horn, and take in a spine-tingling skyline bristling with minarets. Bargain-hunt your way through a twisted warren of lanes in the Grand Bazaar-the world’s oldest shopping mall-pausing to sip tea with a merchant. Explore some of the world’s greatest monuments, their names etched in history: Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace.
INTRODUCTION Walk in the footsteps of Roman emperors and Ottoman sultans. 206 Mosque of Süleyman the Magnificent Tour. 168 Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum Tour.
Istanbul By Lale Surmen Aran & Tankut Aran In addition to traveling, tour guiding, and guidebook researching, they run an Istanbul-based “Back Door”–style travel agency, SRM Travel (istanbul By Lale Surmen Aran & Tankut Aran With each trip, they say they become new souls, enriched and enlightened. They have a passion for unusual travel destinations, and always enjoy learning about the past, present, and future of the peoples of the world. lale surmen aran & TANKUT ARAN Lale and Tankut-an Istanbul-based couple who have been married for 11 years-lead tours for Turkish and American groups (including Best of Turkey tours for Europe Through the Back Door). With the help of his hardworking staff of 80 at Europe Through the Back Door, Rick organizes and leads tours of Europe and offers an information-packed website (Rick, his wife (and favorite travel partner) Anne, and their two teenage children, Andy and Jackie, call Edmonds, just north of Seattle, home.
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He’s researched and written more than 30 travel guidebooks, writes and hosts the public television series Rick Steves’ Europe, and also produces and hosts the weekly public radio show Travel with Rick Steves. Rick has spent four months every year since 1973 exploring Europe. A B O U T T H E AU T H O R S Rick Steves Rick Steves is on a mission: to help make European travel accessible and meaningful for Americans.
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