THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE VISITING TURKEY
It's Turk Wall Street Tucson's Square is behind me there got a pomegranate juice and I'm going to walk in the direction of the blue mosque the most famous mosque of Istanbul and show you the sights along the way which is gonna be really cool here
we go Kalasha tower this way and that is the galata tower about 700 years old and you can go up to the top get some paint hues but I'm not in the for the tourist line and everything all the hassles I'm just gonna keep on walking because there is so much to see Avastin bol and this is going to be a fun walk getting to the Blue Mosque it's quite aways but a really nice walk check out these guys as you can see people up there at the top good food and this is the line to go up the tower
I have a bit of a handle of the city and where to go it's going to be a walk down these narrow lanes and then walking across a waterway with lots of fishermen and then get on to the other side of Istanbul not the Asian side you got to take a boat to go over there but the side with the blue mosque and the IES Sofia and here it opens up at the bridge going over the water there and you can see mosques in the distance
I don't think either of those are the Blue Mosque sir three right here and so all these fishermen lined up along this bridge and then out here is the phosphorus which connects to the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara which then flows into the Hefe and all these weak islands are are like out that way I guess this right here is kind of a little Inlet that then flows into the Bosphorus the waterway out there that connects the Black Sea in the Sea of Marmara the end of the bridge and that boats go to various other places
you can access by boat including the Asian side of the city this is the European side of Istanbul and Turkey rattles Europe and the Middle East or Asia he prefer and so Romania and Bulgaria are out that way I guess out that way and then the Black Sea up there and Armenia and Georgia what a sight pretty crazy I was talking to someone who is saying that the city is especially overcrowded because of Syrian refugees there's that many that they're really just converging on the city and so this is me aya sofya another long line which I will probably avoid the ayiiia sofia was constructed in 537 ad as a greek orthodox cathedral this region of Turkey
what is now Turkey was previously Greek I've been to Greek ruins in Turkey on my last visit Greece actually occupied regions far even further than here I've been to Greek churches in Jordan earlier this year but this area was of course taken over by the Muslims and that this was then converted into a mosque and it is now a museum almost 1500 years old