First day trip for Istanbul, going to be a busy day, ate at the hotel for breakfast, very good food. We will be staying here for 5 nights, so this is a good thing.

First place did today is Topkapi Palace, the headquarter of the Ottoman Empire built in 1400.

Lunch at Sultan Palace Cafe Restaurant

Blue Mosque, everyone has to take the shoes off. It’s a big musk, with the celebration Eid, lots of people were praying as well, but it’s all nice and quiet.

Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi, another mosque, it was a Orthodox church during Byzantine, changed to mosque during Ottoman, change to museum 1935, then to mosque in 2020.

Basilica Cistern, underground water palace museum

Eat dinner at The Must Turkish Restaurant