First meeting with Istanbul!
I can tell you my story about the feast of the country in Istanbul by writing: “Hello, Olga. Welcome to one of the largest mobile operators in the world. Vodafon. » . And I read: “Hello, Olga. Welcome to Istanbul… . You can witness my capture of these advertising inscriptions at Ataturk Airport in the middle of the mental corridor in the back behind the old stamp. Yakby my lad at that moment, having said that I have such a service, and I’ve put it in specially for me, I would definitely believe it. Argentines, Americans and other passengers, who arrived at about one o'clock with us, watched for my turbulent reaction and obviously did not understand what I was.
From the first whilins, Istanbul would like to spread its hugs to us, rich millions of places nibi check on us.
To pay for public transport in Istanbul use a card Istanbulkart. We arrived prepared, our friends made us such a thing.
From the airport itself, by a meter, we got to the station we needed in the center of the place without transfers. For myself, we noticed the comfort of those carriages: trims for hands hang everywhere, a reception melody sounds at the informing stations, pulls may rush silently. We left at Aksaray station. Once we had a bunch of local restaurants in one of them and had a good evening. Let's go to the hotel and call the mosque and shops, which can be put up in a leather booth on the basement. Usі vіdchinenі vіdchinenі dopіzna, and deyaki y to the wound. I just didn’t fall right into the deck of them. Eyes widened! Clothes, vzuttya, textiles...
Day 1
There is nothing better, lower the vranci in the new place in the ochіkuvannі promenade. Truth be told, we jumped on our first day at 5:00 a. m. in the wake of a loud call from the minarets of mosques to the rank prayer. Friday is a special day for Muslims and a sacred day, and the first prayer of this day is celebrated on the Svitanka.
We didn't know the details.
From the cob of the wound in our mind (about 8:00) we quickly jumped over, went down in a small elevator, fell down with gusto and crashed into the place. Up to the Sultanahmet Square, Mayzha is not memorable for me. The windows of the shops turned up with all respect, the malt trees were knocked in the eye, the sellers sang the shokhvilin. By the way, we caught a photo of the remains of the columns of the Triumphal Arch of Theodosius, which were found at the hour of excavation.
About 20 minutes later, the Sultan Ahmet Park (Sultan Ahmet Park) with a fountain, benches and views of Hagia Sophia and Blakytna Mosque was in front of us. Before the trip, a dozen of times we showed photos of famous and travel bloggers from the square, but after raising the great controversy, the mustache fell into its own place, and the word "nearby" was completely replaced.
Standing beside the fountain, to the right - Hagia Sophia (Hagia Sophia), to the left - Blakitna Mosque (The Blue Mosque ), or navpak. Golovna, it’s enough just to turn your head to look at architectural masterpieces in a few seconds.
Sophia Cathedral, as they call it, the old century was the embellishment of the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the viraz of її greatness. From the new mi th rozpochali. On the territory of the cathedral, we received a special card Museum Pass (85 TRY), which allowed us to see and get richer.
Glancing at Hagia Sophia, we turned on the square to the fountain, had a Turkish bagel, and rested.
Dali, around the St. Sophia Cathedral on the right from the main entrance, straightened through the park to the Topkapi Palace. On the way, we stopped by the Church of St. Irene (Hagia Irene Museum). Entry into it is paid, but there is no way to enter the list of places by card.
The inside of the church is empty, that one can mean the future history, which reminds me of the walls and turns in the past. The song hour of the church was the head church of Constantinople and spent the meaning of the head day for the church of St. Sophia. Topkapi (Topkapi Palace Museum) is also worthy of us. Rozkishny palace that saved its history in objects pobutu and inter' єru. Tse buv was the head palace of the Ottoman Empire until the middle of the 19th century.
There we walked around the whole territory, courtyards, services and the government's offices, whirled in the Harem, revealed our own life of the Turkish sultans, fantasized. I was especially impressed by the Kitchen of the palace, the dishes are only allowed to show the scale of the banquets.
Turning back the same way we went to the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul. 
Let's sweat corn, non-trivial reasons to renew the fountain, and one more museum - the Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnici). The whole mystical underground, in the past underground reservoir of Constantinople with columns and arches, a column with the head of the Gorgon Medusa and a wealth of other riddles.
Having spent time there, we caught, on our thought, chimalo, like on the first day. Then, not hurrying anywhere, we took a walk in the Gulhane park. In the time of the Ottoman Empire, the beautiful gardens of the Topkapi Palace were planted in the park. In the park, you can watch gulls, parrots, and cats - all of the colorful Turkish representatives of the fauna. Walking through the park we walked along Kenedy Embankment to Galata Bridge.
There we were immediately overwhelmed, seated at a small table with stiltchiks and already through a sprat of hvilin mi trimali in the hands of balik-ekmek - a whole ribin (cooked on the boat in order with our cafe) in bulk with cibulei and salad leaves. There was a splash of lemon juice on the leather table, which was needed to pour over the filling. Tasty? Duje! ! ! We have lost mega satisfaction and city.
Mіstsevy coloring itself in that mіstsі especially zahoplyuє. Ships are sailing along the sea water, the smell of ribey is heard, the seagulls are screaming, the Turkish music is playing, and the wild beasts of the inhabitants are catching fish from the Galata bridge. Woods nibi heads to wash from the sides. All this atmosphere added to the relish of our riba in bulci. We ate, crossed over the Galata bridge to the other European part of Istanbul.
We admired the setting of the sun and the closeness of the waters Golden Horn (the ridge is bent by the inflow, which flows into the Bosporus in the place of the Marmur Sea), boarded the funicular, We moved to Tyunel Square by metro and went to the local mall. There, surrounded by a majestic Coca-Cola dance, nothing especially struck me. Ale, we shook the prices, went to the supermarket and then turned by metro from the mall to the hotel. We had an evening of Turkish merdzhimek soup-puree in a cafe nearby, we wandered around in the little streets and were tired, happy, and again the enemy reached our room close to 24:00.
Day 2
The coming day appeared for us not less active and rich on the bottom. Tse buv day of mosques! We ranked our route from the first in terms of value and head - Blakytnoy Mosque(1609-1616 rr. ), which is also called Sultanahmet Mosque . Vaughn is seen with her six minarets, which do not always get near the frame.
A mustache to the fact that some of them are stashed in order from the very sporadic, and two smaller ones - grow out of the outer kutіv of the majestic courtyard and make a smaller height. 
Blakitna Mosque - a doucha, ale vіdkrita for tourists to look around at the hour between prayers. Entrance without cost. The Turks want to know those who love them with their culture and faith, they allow them to touch and get close to everything holy for them in a literal sense. There are a lot of information stands here, everything is still clean and atmospheric. At the entrance, you see black beddings and hustinki in the middle, as well as packages for taking, like shoes, it is necessary to know the language. Everything is organized and thought out as much as possible. The inside of the mosque is light and spacious, respectfully attaching the central dome, which rests on 4 columns with a diameter of 5m. Up to a new one, the infusions of the cupolas adjoin, to those, even lesser infusions of the cupolas adjoin. On all the lines of the circles of the domes, there are windows.
The walls of the mosque are decorated with hand-painted kahelinks, on some images of traditional rosin ornaments, flowers and viseruns are more important than black color.
Kahel and paintings give the inner space of blackness and lightness. The same kahelins, as it appeared, decorate the walls of the Topkapi sultans' palace and the walls of the New Mosque. And we spodіvalis їх їх вільки in Blakytny.
We went straight to the Grand Bazaar - one of the most critical markets in the world. The Turks began to celebrate the life of the Turks immediately after the conquest of Constantinople at the sites of the large markets in the Byzantine capital. My eyes were widened in different colors and propositions. On the other hand, it was just a matter of walking along the trading streets and not buying anything, even if there everything is a little more expensive.
That I didn’t waste the cicada and asked the sellers for the quality, monitored the prices with hope. I would like to receive my blessings, if I knew miracle scarves for a total of 12 lire (103.2 hryvnia). There was no joy between!
Having overcome the bajanna to buy up the whole party, we brought only two and went toSuleymaniye Mosque. Sporudzhena won earlier than the Blakytnoy Mosque in 1550-1557. by order of Sultan Suleiman, the prominent architect Sinan. Sultan Suleiman himself is resting near the courtyard of the mosque in the susіdnіh mausoleums (tombs) and Roksolan's squad is in love with him. From the yard, there is also a wonderful, panoramic view of the European part of Istanbul from the Galatskaya Bashta, and you can see the place, where the waters of the Golden river and the Bosphorus canals flow.
We straightened out of the mosque to the Egyptian Bazaar.
We walked quickly and went to the New Mosquenear the Galata Bridge, also near the Valide Sultan Mosque. ЇЇ everyday life began in 1597, but it stretched out for a long time, it was resumed and completed already after Blakitnaya in 1663.
Mustaches of the mosques in the old town of Varto saw and looked at the vlasnі ochі їkhnі similarity and diversity.
Having spent our time in the months planned for the next day, at a calm pace we overthrew the Galatsky Mist, the pawns went up to the Galata Tower, along it the pishki to the Tyunel Square, and from the Tyunel Square to Taksim Square we rode an old-fashioned, wooden tram along the famous Іstіklyal street. Tsya pishohidna street in the Beilogu district is known for its shops, embassies and terrorist attacks in this district. In the area of Taksim, we turned to the hotel by the meter. Zruchno vinimati lived near the metro station nearby.
Day 3
We spent the rest of the day at a place on the Princes' Islands (Princes' islands). This group of islands is close to the coast of Istanbul in the Marmur Sea. Administratively, the center of the island is the administrative district of Istanbul - Adalar. For a look and a look at the chotiri from the maidens of the islands. You can reach them from the European part of the city by municipal ferry from the port Kabatash. So the services of transportation are given by the private companies, but a decade more expensive. We chose an economical option for a 1.5-year route repackaged by tourists and travelers.
The princely islands, as they are still called Ukrainian mine, have long been a place of sending relatives and the proximity of the emperors and sultans. Sogodnі - tse popular directly for a one-day trip. The islands are forgotten by garno-preserved wooden mansions and modern, luxurious villas.
Plivuchi there we were fed from the Turk, who sat in order, which is the best of the islands. Vіn z upevnіstyu having shown on the island of Buyukada - the largest average. "Beaches, restaurants..." .
We didn’t know those common and omriyah beaches on the coast. Restaurants didn’t surprise us with anything either, okrim prices. Ale, nature on the island is diisno the arc of a garn. 
Here, on one of the most important hillocks, an ancient, Orthodox monastery and wonderful panoramic views emerge. Ale varto nobility, that on the islands ruh cars were fenced. You can change clothes, you can speed with a bicycle with the help of a movie ticket. Їx here to stitch for us bajayuchih.
Well, we just blew it up on the road, as in our opinion it is not enough to lead us to the garnih mіsts and something special. That price was not the best solution.
The road steadily led uphill, the horses rushed along behind the walkers, they didn’t smell very pleasant, and there was especially nowhere to go to the side. After 30-40 hours of uninterrupted climbing uphill, nothing changed. Nareshti, we had the power to feed two people who were going down, how many more to go to the nearest beautiful places. The stench showed up as Ukrainians and rose, to the nearest point a repunch, there, where all the horses galloped, it’s good to go 30. And it’s still a year to go to the temple! From you and the largest island.
We immediately decided to turn at a calm pace to the embankment to the pier. We were lucky enough to find a good place for a photo on a private territory, located on the main route. It’s good that in that booth the repairs and workers did not give respect to tourists who were eager for panoramic views.
Turning from the islands to the place, we spent the rest of the evening on the grass road on Sultanahmet Square. We bought malt for relatives and friends, sat on a bench beating the lighted fountain, looked at the lighted Blakytna Mosque, drank tea, like a local seller of big bags, and having passed straight on the square, and went to the hotel for bags.
Before entering the Aksaray metro station, on the way to the airport, I wanted to sit in the same cafe for goodbye, from which we started our acquaintance on the day of arrival. We drank and went. And I wanted to stay there even if I wanted to for a decade of days.
Istanbul is amazing and new style for me! Kolishna is the capital of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. A place with a uniquely rich history, one of the largest places in Europe in the future of a rich century!
Nezazhne, unforgettable, a place of contrasts and the instillation of all things on a new hope. Here for the sake of tourists, everything is thought out and all the roads are for a drinkable look. I wish everyone to visit Istanbul once in a lifetime!
More expensive date: 05.05. 2016 - 09.05. 2016
Trivality: 3 last days
Hotel: Beyaz Kugu Hotel (recommended)
