Who would have thought that I experienced fire in the building. This is my first time living in an appartement. Of course I never chose appartement when living in Indonesia because it’s a real high risk when the earthquake happen. But here we are placed in an appartement. What got me relieved the first time that we are in the lowest floor so if something happen we will be quickly evacuated. That’s what I thought. Until it really happened. We slept around midnight and abruptly woken up by the noise outside. I thought it was the drunk people just got back from night club or the restaurant next door was doing some deep cleaning. So loud that I had to wake up. My husband peeked outside and immediately said “fire brigade outside, you wait here!” I was just “am I dreaming or what?” I put on clothes, checked outside and saw a few of fire trucks. I checked the other side of the appartement and saw a few of police cars and ambulances. “Oh no, something serious...
Pardon me for silly English
We both love history, but his knowledge about history much deeper than I have (for sure).
We spent our first days by strolling around Oldtown, where Haghia Sophia (Ayasofya), Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, Galata tower and another iconic things in Istanbul exist (including those corn sellers. This is what I am going to miss about Istanbul actually).
We arrived in Istanbul a day before, at around 7pm I believe, then we walked around to have dinner. That was the first time I ate the corn. I like that kind of corn, and I am too hungry to walk that far from hotel to find a good place to eat (instead, it was a 'zonk'!), so let say this corn is kind of appetizer before dinner (and become our daily snack during the day).
First we walk around Column of Constantine and Nourusmaniye mosque. There are so many birds in Column of Constantine. And the mosque is close to it. Close to the grand bazaar gate as well (there are so many gates of grand bazaar).
Then we walked to Ayasofya and blue mosque. There was a hippodrome there. Small pieces of hippodrome wall is left there, the rest was damaged. Imagine yourself standing there, in a place where history happened... horse racing and all of those stuff going on. Well hmm maybe it is just me who feels that weird way 😕 but that was amazing really.
I saw some fountains there, and an Egyptian Obelisk (dunno why and how it is there), another monument which we believe that a lot of people try to climb it and died there. Well...uhmm.. at least that was he read..
We walked around neighborhood, small roads, getting lost, tired of course but a lot fun. I really love this oldtown of Istanbul. And oh! Istanbul is the city of cats 😽
little cafe
We both love history, but his knowledge about history much deeper than I have (for sure).
We spent our first days by strolling around Oldtown, where Haghia Sophia (Ayasofya), Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern, Galata tower and another iconic things in Istanbul exist (including those corn sellers. This is what I am going to miss about Istanbul actually).
authentic Istanbul
We arrived in Istanbul a day before, at around 7pm I believe, then we walked around to have dinner. That was the first time I ate the corn. I like that kind of corn, and I am too hungry to walk that far from hotel to find a good place to eat (instead, it was a 'zonk'!), so let say this corn is kind of appetizer before dinner (and become our daily snack during the day).
haghia sophia (ayasofya) dari rooftop restoran
blue mosque
First we walk around Column of Constantine and Nourusmaniye mosque. There are so many birds in Column of Constantine. And the mosque is close to it. Close to the grand bazaar gate as well (there are so many gates of grand bazaar).
column of Constantine
sekitar grand bazaar, sepi karena libur Idul Adha
open air mosque
sekitar Istanbul universitas
grand bazaar
sepi, masih libur idul adha
Then we walked to Ayasofya and blue mosque. There was a hippodrome there. Small pieces of hippodrome wall is left there, the rest was damaged. Imagine yourself standing there, in a place where history happened... horse racing and all of those stuff going on. Well hmm maybe it is just me who feels that weird way 😕 but that was amazing really.
medusa (Basilica Cistern)
tembok hippodrome yang tersisa (sejenis coloseum di Roma)
sekitar Galata
Galata bridge
Galata tower
We walked around neighborhood, small roads, getting lost, tired of course but a lot fun. I really love this oldtown of Istanbul. And oh! Istanbul is the city of cats 😽
craziest cat, paling berisik, paling seducing
💕😍😘
Saya komentar pakai bahasa Indonesia aja ya mbak. Soalnya saya cuma bisa bahasa english little-little :))
ReplyDeleteKeren banget Istanbul mbak. Saya jadi pengen ikut honeymoon trip nya *eh *maaf becanda mbak haha :D
Udah lama saya pengen jalan-jalan ke luar negeri, tetapi belum pernah kesampaian hingga sekarang -_-
haha jangan ikut mas, ntr mupeng ikutan hanimun haha
Deletenabung mas nabung! semangat nabung! trus dipikirintiap hari biar diapprove sama yang kuasa trus jalan deh! asik lho nambah ilmu itu. semangat ya! *kok jadi kayak aku ceramahin ya haha
PRIS
ReplyDeleteYou really make me envy. Its wonder you travell with who you love so much.
Cakep beneranda Turki yak, look like a clasic-warm town
No need May! You can do it with someone you love and trust me it is amazing to travel together 😚
DeleteIya cakep bener old town nya, masih bau bau sejarah macem sisa2 bizantium otoman duh krasa bgt wis pokoe. You have to come!
Aseekk mbake pake bahasa inggris.. Menarik mbak.. Jadi ngiri pngin bkn juga.
ReplyDeleteMaenlah ke punyaku amineco.blogspot.com
Yaudah buruan bikin.... ini juga masih diketawain suamik haha
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