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After 6 months of planning, in 24hours I will land in Istanbul, Turkey! Such an exciting adventure. First solo trip to an unknown city. I have done extensive research in the past one month and gain a lot of insight about this exotic city from many friends
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Waiting for the airport transfer to Taksim, town centre of #istanbul #turkey. It took a long time to clear custom. The queue to clear immigration was very long. Seems like 4 or 5 load of huge planes landed at the same time. By the time I cleared immigrati
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Bought these from the shops along the street I passed by earlier. It's damn cheap! Going to have fruit therapy here for the next 2 weeks.
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Time for dinner. My eyes is shutting but I have to stay awake. Have to adjust to the clock here. Dinner alfresco style. It's quite cool as night sets in.
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Food that they sell along the street. Looks nice but don't dare to try. Not sure how hygienic they are. #turkey #istanbul
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After a long walk, I decided to hop into a dessert shop to try the baklava. I think I deserve some calories since I have burnt quite a lot this afternoon from the walk. Am beginning to feel the effect of not snuff sleep during the flight here this morning
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Supposed to be one of the more impressive mosque. Will go in another day. Not dressed for mosque visit this afternoon
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One of the many mosque in Istanbul. It's at every corner of the street. But this one is quite huge. Will come back here to take a closer look later.
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I order this pita cost 2.5 lira and drinks another 2 lira. Total lunch cost about sgd2.5!!!
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Was waking around the neighbourhood and found this corner kebab shop so I decided to have my first meal here. It looks like a shop where the locals would go.
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It's a very small museum/formerly a church It was restored in recent years. The exterior is still undergoing some restoration work
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The #istanbul people proved themselves to be very helpful. Was guided by a hotel concierge on direction to Kariye Museum (Chora Church). Then another old lady walk with me to this tunnel to show me where to take the bus. I am humbled by their helpfulness.
