Memories again - this time from Istanbul, trip I did early this summer.
My hotel was located on Asian side of Istanbul. I must give information that Istambul is cut on half by Bosphorus. Following wiki:
The shores of the strait are heavily populated as the city of Istanbul (with a metropolitan area in excess of 11 million inhabitants) straddles it.
There are only two bridges over Bosphorus. I know it as one of them was renovated that time. It made a lot of traffic jam in whole city with arround 5 mln cars. Nevertheless, due to traffic on streets, I had a grate oprtunity to use ferry to cross straight to european side of city.
Ferries are well organised. It is cheap and fast way to move from one border to other. Moreover from water level Istanbul looks marvelous, especially during the night, with city lights.
It is one of the best cities I've visited. For sure place that I can recommend to go to. Even not knowing turkish language.
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