turkey

There were a couple of places I scheduled into the itinerary to re-charge the batteries. This was one of them on the coast of Turkey.

In Istanbul the men are aggressively on the take. You can't pause to study your google map without someone immediately appearing to ask if you need directions for a small…

From the 1460's to the completion of Dolmabahce Palace in 1856, this place served as the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire. This is a picture of the Harem located…

this guy spun serenely in his felt hat and white robes - the dance was originated as a kind of meditation and/or blurring between the physical and metaphysical worlds.

This is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city. It's held up by 336 marble columns and artwork has been placed in the pools that…

Apparently this was discovered when a French explorer watched locals dip their buckets through holes in the basements of their homes for water and sometimes caught fish too. 50 tons…

This is reputed to be the biggest mosque in the world. It's undergoing a major restoration right now so while I was inside, I didn't really get to "see" it.…

I'm betting this woman was going for matchy-matchy

a brilliant example of Byzantine architecture and art -figuratively and literally

Originally built as a church it became a mosque when the Ottoman Empire ruled and now is a museum under the Turkish president.