A great visit with a gracious people. And a great tour around the land of my (Armenian) ancestors with a few reminders: the food, some ancient names, buildings and ghosts of the past...
1 Dusk over Istanbul
2 New continent for Annie
3 Istanbul Banksy?
4 Istanbul cats
5 Hotel
6 Infamous Taksim Square
7 Egyptian Spice Market
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10 A visit to the Palace
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12 Recognizing Allah and Mohammed
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15 In the Harem
16 Sleeping quarters
17 Bully Pulpit
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20 Turkish Tea
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22 A Greek restaurant in Turkey
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25 View of the Bosphorus
26 Hotel Staircase
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28 Bosphorus Rover Cruise
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30 Between Europe and Asia
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32 Ortaköy mosque
33 Dolmabahçe Palace
34 Where are the Armenian churches?
35 Figuring out the metro
36 Grand Bazaar
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38 The split - Off to Asia
39 Kapadovkia
40 Charming Cave Hotel
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42 Byzantine cave churches
43 See it's a dining table
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45 More cave churches
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48 Getting ready
49 Up we go
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60 An underground city
61 Door
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67 Not native
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73 Whirling Dervishes at Konya
74 Intro
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76 Animal Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha
77 Pamukkale
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79 Hieropolis
80 ...where an specially sculpted pool was given to Cleopatra by Marc Anthony
81 Shopping in Şirince
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90 Mary's last resting place
91 Souvenirs
92 Another pool in Selçuk
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96 Cave of the seven sleepers
97 Ephesus
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100 Nike, the Goddess of Victory
101 Hello Annie
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103 Photos for a budding architect
104 A famous library
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111 The Arcadian Way
112 The residential district
113 Puzzle pieces
114 Mosaics
115 ...and walls
116 Some more cat photos
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118 Artemis under ground
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120 The largest stadium
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123 Diocletian was not a nice guy
124 The last remains of the Temple of Artemis
125 ... one of the seven wonders of the world
126 Is that it?
127 ...and the original had many more columns
128 Three statues
129 Staying in an old Hamaam
130 High up
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132 Wrapped for the Blue Mosque
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135 Muslim only side
136 The mosque police
137 Women only side
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141 Dueling Calls to Prayer
142 Roman cistern
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145 Lavash for dinner
146 Balat
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148 Ancient tablet
149 Ancient kings
150 Medusa's Angelic Face
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152 Rooftop dinner with Hagia Sophia in background