Inspiring Istanbul - Part 4

Day 4 - 17 Nov 2012

Last day in istanbul...
Flight at 3pm ...

 

 

 

 

wif Mr Bahar

whoooohoooo...balik Mesia !!!!

View from above

Inspiring Istanbul - Part 3

Day 3 - 16th Nov 2012

Visited Mr Bahar's Tourism Office and attended a meeting on Boutique Hotels in Turkey.

view from TM Istanbul

Nasi lemak @ Istanbul...tqvm En Bahar !

boss TM Istanbul

meeting time

End of the day we visited the Spice Bazaar



The Spice Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in the city. Located in Fatih, in the neighborhood of Eminönü, it is the second largest covered shopping complex after the Grand Bazaar.

soaps

with locals

fruitssss !!!!

freeeeezingggg

fish - very expensive in Istanbul

Turkish delightssssss

to be continued....

Inspiring Istanbul - Part 2

Day 2 : 15 Nov 2012

Attended the Global Summit on City Tourism @ Halic.


@ the hotel

@ Halic



registration counter



with Mr Rajan Datar of BBC News



MALAYSIA !!!

summit

Malaysia Team

We also attended the Gala Dinner where Malaysia won the 1st Prize - UNWTO Ulysses Award For Innovation In Public Policy And Governance ! Whooooohooooo !!!

DSG receiving the award

with Taleb Rifai - SG UNWTO

yours truly ...

to be continued...

Inspiring Istanbul - Part 1

Nov was a busy month....so is Dec...pheww...finally I managed to find some time to update this space.

 

i was lucky when i won the gold award for my article and da boss gifted us (farah & moi) a trip to Istanbul to attend the Global Summit on City Tourism. Hmmm.... on Diwali that is (13th Nov 2012). My flight to Istanbul (MH30) was on 14th @ 12.30 am. Met Farah and the others at the Golden Lounge. 11 hours flight. We reached Istanbul on 14th Nov at 6.10am. Checked in Hilton Garden Inn.

 

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and fifth largest city proper in the world. Istanbul is also a megacity, as well as the cultural and financial centre of Turkey. The city covers 39 districts of the Istanbul province. It is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encompasses the natural harbour known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situated on two continents.

@ the airport



karşılama



good morning Istanbul



our hotel



my room



view from the room

Later around 10 am... we met Mr Bahar (Director TM Istanbul) and he took us around to the Grand Bazaar and some other tourist spots.

 

moi @ entrance

 

The Grand Bazaar is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 3,000 shops which attracts between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily.

 

Next stop - lunch

Kebab !!!!

 

all of us

next stop - The Blue Mosque & AyaSofya !

The Sultan Ahmed Mosque mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built from 1609 to 1616, during the rule of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it also comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah and a hospice.

Hagia Sophia @ Ayasofya is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul. Hagia Sophia is one of the greatest surviving examples of Byzantine architecture.

 

 



my fav shot inside the mosque :)



 

Hagia Sophia

 

with the team

 





 



with Farah



 

 

 

 

 

yup... a train @ tram in the middle of the road... heheheh

 

 

to be continued....