Aaron and I spent a week in Istanbul for our winter break and it was mind blowing. We were just on the edge of eastern culture and it was so different. I’ve never seen a Mosque aside from the more recent versions in America, you couldn’t look up or turn a corner without seeing one here. Some of these buildings were over one thousand years old! We got lost plenty of times but usually stumbled on to something very worth seeing such as a tightly packed street with bars for the younger scene in Istanbul and randomly eating at a very nice fish restaurant where we had fresh fillets and calamari. We went to probably half a dozen mosques, saw the whirling Dervishes, took a ferry along the Bosphorus, saw the Modern Art Museum (and Bodyworlds since it happened to be in town) and topped it off with an interesting experience of getting cleaned by a tough Turkish man in an ancient bath house after lying around on a hot marble slab. Check out the photos (sorry, no photos allowed in the bath house):
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