zoolMar 6

Can't quite take in the fact that a week from now i was idly dreaming of the food smells in Taksim Square and tonight i was standing there, smelling them!

Long walk from Taksim to where i'm staying on the edge of Sultanahmet. Through arty friendly neighbourhoods in Beyoğlu, past a huge green glowing tower, through fiercely lit shuttered tunnels, across the Bosphorus, the bridge lined with people fishing, lost in the twists of a deserted bazaar, a base in a between zone
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Always wanted to visit but never been to Istanbul, spur of the moment decision to change that next weekend, flying there because i'm an ecological vandal

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The Galata Tower. A nice feel to the neighbourhood walking up to it, this shopfront workshop with craft sessions caught my eye, you can go and make your own mosaic lamp for €35

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galata_Tower

https://www.highlightsinistanbul.com/

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Vast, lavish mosques each with a different illuminated banner, they are "mahya", made with LEDs now, previously with oil lamps, strung for Ramadan. The messages are quite humanistic
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Spookily quiet bazaar district, mediaeval layout, chaos architecture, populated by stray cats and late-night workmen, quite suddenly emerging into a glossy district of silver workers. Telling myself i don't need any silver. Looking forward to seeing more of this in daylight :)
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A duet or duel between the two big mosques in Sultanahmet Square, recording the lunchtime call to prayer from a little park in between #soundscape #audiofoto
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Wandered over to the tourist core in my plan-less state, explored the gardens of the Topkapı palace and the squares around the Hagia Sofia but felt no impulse to go into these places

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClhane_Park - the big column was left there by the Romans in the 4th century ago. Now reading that i missed a whole museum of Islamic Science and Technology nearby; having seen glimpses of those instruments and devices in the equivalent Western museum in Oxford recently, have to try and return there

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@ultrazool it has been years since I've been, but I found the Islamic Science and Technology museum very sterile, lots of incredibly beautiful objects (I feel like most of them were replicas) in immaculate cases. For me, I much preferred the Rahmi Koc Museum of Technology - more bustling and busy https://rmk-museum.org.tr/istanbul/en
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Rahmi M. Koç Museum is waiting for you to discover unique experiences.

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