Step Back in Time: Exploring Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, and Istanbul's Historic Wonders in 8 Hours

A long and educational tour through the Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Basilica Cisterns, Blue Mosque, Grand Bazaar and Spice Market. We started out at 7.30am and walked 22,000 steps in 8 hours! What a rich and haunting history, so full of clashes and disappointment of human civilizations.

“Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought

Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore/

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/ Where ignorant armies clash by night.”