See Istanbul's most important sites in a single day on a private tour.
Skip the line to enter the fascinating Topkapi Palace
Visit the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia with an expert guide
Stroll around the Grand Bazaar with the best hints from an insider
Learn about Ottoman and Byzantine history from an expert guide
Walk in the Sultanahmet district, the oldest part of Istanbul, which is filled with ancient and contemporary streets and neighborhoods
Posted By : Karchoute
Guzin was very nice, instructive and gave us plenty of useful details on Sainte Sophie, Blue Mosque (under renovation), Topkapi Palace and Suleiman Mosque. She also showed us good kebab places and carpet and ceramics handcraft.
It is less useful to have a guide un the Grand Bazar or the Spice market.
It was a great weekend thanks to Guzin and Walks in Istanbul !
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Posted On : 2021-11-02 02:00:20 
Posted By : beaubo
We booked three tours with Walks InIstanbul and our online contact was the owner Arzu, who communicated in a timely and clear fashion. We requested a female guide and were assigned to Guzin, who was an absolutely terrific guide- friendly, charming, knowledgeable, opinionated (when we asked!!) and passionate.
Our initial tour was of the original Jewish and Greek neighborhoods that are now in the midst of a pretty aggressive gentrification campaign. We then did a short Bosphorus cruise at dusk, with the highlights being the different sultans' palaces that were scattered along the straits. The following day, we covered the expansive Topkapi Palace that really had a thorough set of billboards to read about everyday life in the palace kitchen. The humongous Hagia Saphia and the equally sprawling Grand Bazaar rounded out that busy day as well.
Istanbul is bursting with a colorful and complicated history, and we were grateful that Guzin really provided an unadulterated perspective of the Ottoman interaction with its minorities. We appreciated her candor. Its important to have a solid guide to provide context and and expertise and we were thrilled with Guzin as our choice.
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Posted On : 2020-10-24 15:46:10
