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Istanbul off the Beaten Paths- Europe to Asian Side-Sightseeing & Food Tour.

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Duration

clock7 hours

Overview

    We will leave the main touristy sights behind and drive away to Istanbul's less known neighborhoods and sights. The tour will partly be sightseeing and partly food sampling in different parts of Istanbul. We will start with Ortaköy neighborhood suited on the side of the Bosporus where you can put Asia and Europe in one picture.We will go little further to see Rumeli Fortresses which was part of the defense of conquering the Constantinople in 1453.
    After this we will drive through the Istanbul Bosporus bridge from European side to Asian side.We will visit Beylerbeyi palace and see how the Sultans were living.We will visit the Çaml?ca which the highest hill of Istanbul and a new mosque built in 2019 which is one of the biggest one in world.We will conclude the tour at the Kad?köy food market with sampling the variety of the different food which comes from different parts of Turkey. Your guide will order the food for you and make it easier to make a selection of the well chosen food you.

What's Included

  • Coffee and/or Tea
  • Halva; one of the oldest dessert made of the wheat flour, tahini, pistachio and sugar.
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • All Fees and Taxes
  • Lunch will starter with four different kinds of meze ( dips ), 2-3 different kinds of home cooked meals and 2-3 kinds of kebaps. If you are vegetarians there will be many vegetarian options.
  • Food sampling in seven stops. Pastrami ( sun dried beef from Kayseri)
  • Tantuni; diced beef or chicken ( optional ) roasted in a large pan wrap with vegetables with yoghurt
  • Börek pastries in Ortaköy at about 10 am. This is will be variety of the pastries stuffed with cheese, minced meat, spinach.
  • Tulum ; a goat cheese fermented in a goat skin for two years from eastern Turkey
  • Turşu ; variety of the pickled vegetables serve in a glass with a delicious juice
  • Olive tasting; sampling 4 different kinds of the olives which come from different parts of Turkey
  • Lahmacun ; Turkish style of pizza cook in a wood fire oven with lamb, paprika, tomatoes and unions
  • Bottled water
  • Künefe ; the most liked middle eastern dessert made of angel hair, pistachio, cheese and honey.
  • Midye Dolma; mussels stuffed with rice and spices in their shell

What to Expect

    We will leave the main touristy sights behind and drive away to Istanbul's less known neighborhoods and sights. The tour will partly be sightseeing and partly food sampling in different parts of Istanbul. We will start with Ortaköy neighborhood suited on the side of the Bosporus where you can put Asia and Europe in one picture.We will go little further to see Rumeli Fortresses which was part of the defense of conquering the Constantinople in 1453. After this we will drive through the Istanbul Bosporus bridge from European side to Asian side.We will visit Beylerbeyi palace and see how the Sultans were living.We will visit the Çamlıca which the highest hill of Istanbul and a new mosque built in 2019 which is one of the biggest one in world.We will conclude the tour at the Kadıköy food market with sampling the variety of the different food which comes from different parts of Turkey. Your guide will order the food for you and make it easier to make a selection of the well chosen food you.

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