Parts Unknown-Alternative Walking Tour
Alternative - Parts Unknown
This tour is a great alternative if you have already seen Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque part, or looking for a more off-the-beaten-track-free tour!
It covers the main attractions of our city but mainly focuses on the hidden gems that are well and truly "off the beaten track" and gives you facts you wouldn't know or notice walking around by yourself.
We will try to explain to you how it feels to be a Turkish person by telling stories about Turkish weddings, social life, daily routines, foods, and much more
Availability: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays in English.
Please ask availability for spanish language.
Departure: 14.30 pm
Duration: 2,5 Hrs
Meeting Point: We will be waiting with a yellow umbrella at the entrance of Corlulu Ali Pasha Madrasah , google map link
Finishing Point: Close to Spice Bazaar
Tour Style: walking tour based on tipping ( Minimum expected contribution is 10 Euros or 10 Us Dollars ( 400 Try ) per person
During this tour;
We will start with the Corlulu AliPasha Madrasa, which used to be a religious school and now serve as coffee, tea and hookah lounge.
We will then make our way to one of Istanbul’s oldest markets- the Old Book Bazaar Sahaflar Çarşısı; located on the site of the Byzantine Empire’s book and paper market and talk about the education system in Turkey
Visit the glorious Suleymaniye Mosque and learn about Turkish telenovelas!
Stroll through the non-touristy markets of Istanbul! Please get ready for your senses to be enticed during our visit to the local spice markets. Upon entering the bazaar area, immediately you feel the electricity in the air. Your senses will be filled with bright colors and powerful aromas of the exotic spices that will surround you.
Find out where is the best kebab in town together!
Visit Beyazit Mosque
We have personally designed this tour for our guests to really get into the crevices of our great city. Your day will be filled with abundant information, fascinating stories, and experiences that you could not have with any other tour guide company!
Nothing unexpected or wonderful is likely to happen if you have an itinerary in Paris filled with the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower.” So we believe the same for Istanbul!
- Are you ready for a local adventure?
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What Do People Say About This Tour
Loved this tour. I went to another free tour before this one but it wasn't as informative and interesting. This one included some surprising info about turkey and how it's different from the ottoman empire. Yunus covered some seldom spoken about islam pillars and what it truly means to be muslim. I grew up in Israel, where these things were not talked about and I was very happy to learn many fascinating new things
If you have the time, I recommend checking out both the more “typical”, historical tour, which is a great way to get your bearings and get acclimated, and then the tour that takes you across the bridge (Europe side) and to the Asian side for more of a modern, political, and food tour. The tour guides are local and knowledgeable, and are very open and candid with the answers to questions of all varieties. What I liked about the historical tour, is that you got a good overview, but it didn’t waste time going INTO the standard sites, which you can easily do on your own. For the modern tour, we were taken “off the beaten path”, and shown some hidden gems, as well as left with a list of food spots to check out. Do either (or both!) of these tours ... you won’t regret it!
If you have the time, I recommend checking out both the more “typical”, historical tour, which is a great way to get your bearings and get acclimated, and then the tour that takes you across the bridge (Europe side) and to the Asian side for more of a modern, political, and food tour. The tour guides are local and knowledgeable, and are very open and candid with the answers to questions of all varieties. What I liked about the historical tour, is that you got a good overview, but it didn’t waste time going INTO the standard sites, which you can easily do on your own. For the modern tour, we were taken “off the beaten path”, and shown some hidden gems, as well as left with a list of food spots to check out. Do either (or both!) of these tours ... you won’t regret it!
Best Walking Tour in Istanbul We visited Istanbul for 4 days, a week ago. We always combined a walking tour with local guide for few hours than walking by our-self to explore our interest. We pick an 4 hours free tour with that company (10 Euro tip) and we enjoy it so much that we reserved a second tour, to other part of this amazing city, a day after, and of course we enjoy the second tour as well. We went trough a lot of historical as beautiful places and our guide was very knowledgeable with historical information.We decided to return to Istanbul the coming months and to pick that company again.