Private Istanbul’s Highlights with Bosphorus Tour by a Local Guide

Fatih Trip Overview

Local istanbul experience with a professional licensed tour guide!
With this experince you will see the city from a different window and you will not be same as before.
Firstly we start the day at Sultanahmet area and visit the Hagia Sophia and Bluemosque. After that we will visit the Topkapı Palace. You will listen to different histories about Roman and Ottoman Empires.
After having a local lunch we will take a Bosphorus tour to see marvellous istanbul from the sea. After 90 minutes ride we will visit the Spice Bazaar.
These are only starters, you will have the main course on the tour 🙂
***Please note that Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and will be replaced with Dolmabahce Palace.

What we will see in this tour:
Hagia Sophia
Bluemosque (some parts under renovation)
Hippodrome
Grand Bazaar (Closed on Sundays)
An unknown cistern
Topkapi Palace and Harem
Lunch
Bosphrous cruise (90 minutes -ticket is included)
Egyptian Bazaar (Spice Market)

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Additional Info

Duration: 6 to 7 hours
Starts: Fatih, Turkey
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours



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Local istanbul experience with a professional licensed tour guide!
With this experince you will see the city from a different window and you will not be same as before.
Firstly we start the day at Sultanahmet area and visit the Hagia Sophia and Bluemosque. After that we will visit the Topkapı Palace. You will listen to different histories about Roman and Ottoman Empires.
After having a local lunch we will take a Bosphorus tour to see marvellous istanbul from the sea. After 90 minutes ride we will visit the Spice Bazaar.
These are only starters, you will have the main course on the tour 🙂
***Please note that Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and will be replaced with Dolmabahce Palace.

What we will see in this tour:
Hagia Sophia
Bluemosque (some parts under renovation)
Hippodrome
Grand Bazaar (Closed on Sundays)
An unknown cistern
Topkapi Palace and Harem
Lunch
Bosphrous cruise (90 minutes -ticket is included)
Egyptian Bazaar (Spice Market)

Itinerary
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Stop At: Hagia Sophia Mosque, Sultan Ahmet, Ayasofya MeydanI No:1, Istanbul 34122 Turkey

The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque / Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi, with its innovative architecture, rich history, religious significance and extraordinary characteristics has been fighting against time for centuries, was the largest Eastern Roman Church in Istanbul. Constructed three times in the same location, it is the world’s oldest and fastest-completed cathedral. With its breathtaking domes that look like hanging in the air, monolithic marble columns and unparalleled mosaics, is one of the wonders of world’s architecture history. The sheer dazzling beauty of mosque with its magnificent play on space, light, and color provokes worship in the believer! Hagia Sophia pose on the ground of the first hill of Istanbul, precisely at the tip of the historic peninsula, surrounded by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn on three sides.

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Blue Mosque, Sultanahmet Mah At Meydani Cad No 7, Istanbul 34122 Turkey

Also known as the Sultan Ahmet Camii (or Sultan Ahmed Mosque), this breath-taking building is one of the most majestic Ottoman mosques in all of Turkey.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Topkapi Palace, Cankurtaran Mahallesi Gulhane Park, Near Sultanahmet Square, Istanbul 34122 Turkey

it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans:
Topkapı Palace and Harem (Topkapı Sarayı) are likely to have more colourful stories than most of the world’s museums put together. Libidinous sultans, ambitious courtiers, beautiful concubines and scheming eunuchs lived and worked here between the 15th and 19th centuries when it was the court of the Ottoman empire. A visit to the palace’s opulent pavilions, jewel-filled Treasury and sprawling Harem gives a fascinating glimpse into their lives.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Hippodrome, Binbirdirek, Sultan Ahmet ParkI No:2, Istanbul Turkey

Hippodrome of Constantinople, located in Sultanahmet/Istanbul, was a public arena mainly for chariot races. The word hippodrome comes from the Greek hippos (horse) and dromos (way). The Hippodrome of Constantinople was also home to gladiatorial games, official ceremonies, celebrations, protests, torture to the convicts and so on. Hippodrome functioned all in Roman (203-330 CE), Byzantine (330-1453 CE), and Ottoman (1453-1922) periods.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Grand Bazaar, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul

stanbul’s Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı in Turkish) is one of the world’s greatest shopping destinations and, spanning 30,700 square meters, the largest covered market in the entire world.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Bosphorus Cruise Tours Istanbul, Cankurtaran, Keresteci Hakkı Sk. No:20/A, 34122 Fatih/İstanbul, Turkey

1 h 30 minutes cruise on the bosphorus

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Misir Carsisi (Spice Market), Rustem Pasa Mahallesi, Erzak Ambari Sok. No:92 Eminonu – Fatih, Istanbul 34116 Turkey

No visit to Istanbul is complete without stopping by the atmospheric Spice Bazaar. While the Grand Bazaar may be the largest and most famous of Istanbul’s covered bazaars, this spice market wins the prize for being the most colorful, fragrant, and often the most fun – as visitors can taste the goods on offer.

Duration: 30 minutes

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