Teine väga popp teema on Bosphoruse väina paadituurid - põhimõtteliselt kohe kui kuhugi sadama juurde satud hakkab keegi kindlasti seda sulle pähe määrima. Turistidele suunatud kruiisude hinnad jäävad vahemiku 15€ - 1000000000? Ma ei tea tegelikult. Lagasid üldiselt 15 või 20st eurost. Me olime vähe nutikamad ja tegime iseseisva Bosphoruse paadituuri ühistranspordiga. Istanbul asub sisuliselt kahel pool väina - seetõttu kuuluvad nende ühistranspordi hulka ka praamid. Sõitsime praamiga peaaegu Musta mereni, hängisime väikses külas, ronisime mäe otsa ja tulime praamiga  tagasi kesklinna. Külake oli armas ja vaated olid imelised. Restoranionukestest oli veidi kahju. Praamilt tuli maha kuskil 30 inimest, restorane oli kokku mingi 15, kõik üritasid neid 30t lõunale meelitada. Pooled reisijatest olid kohalikud, kellel oli sellest lõunast jumala ükskõik. Praamitripp oli 25 lira, ehk 5,5€ umbes. Laupäeval käisime ka Printsi saartel. Samuti väga hea otsus - olime eelneval õhtul peol käinud ning lihtsalt praamil lösutada ja merd nautida on väsinud turisti jaoks väga hea variant. Saared ise olid meganummid ja kui ma peaks kunagi Istanbuli tagasi tulema tahaks ühe öö kindlasti saartel veeta. Saartel ei olnud autosid - kõik kimasid ringi jalgrataste, rollerite ja hobustega. Mul oli vahepeal hirm, et leian oma otsa hoopis hobuste kapjade all, kuigi eeldused oleks suuremad hoopis Bakuus või Istanbulis auto alla jääda.
Pubituur oli ka pigem halb. Me ei käinud mitte üheski baaris vaid hoopis kolmes klubis. Niiet ma kaotasin oma pubituuri süütuse täiesti mõtetule pubituurile. Kuigi oli tore vahelduseks klubis lihtsalt tantsida. Üks klubidest, mida me külastasime oli avatud katusega.

Besides visiting the mandatory Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Grand Bazaar and the Egyptian Bazaar we also went to a few places that are not that famous. For example the best view point for this city would definitely be Sapphire Building. It is 261 meters high and visitors can hang out on the 54th floor. Other hot topic of Istanbul is the boat trips on Bosphorus. There must at least 100 providers fro this service, aiming for tourists and the prices vary between 15€-10000000?€. Actually I don't know. The prices did start from 15€. We decided for public transport instead. Istanbul is divided to two parts - Europa & Asia and the Bosphorus is dividing those two parts. They also have some impressive bridges and a massive Avrasia Tunnel between the two sides, but there is also a decent network of ferries. So we took one that went to the end of the Bosphorus, stopped in a village there for 2 hours and then came back to the center of Istanbul. The price was 25 liras/5,5€ and altogether we enjoyed the ferry for 4 hours. The village was lovely and the views were amazing. On Saturday we took another ferry to the Prince islands. It was also a good decision - we went out on Friday night, so what would be better than just relaxing on a ship and enjoying the view.  If  I should ever come back to Istanbul I would definitely spend a night there on the island. There is no cars there, so everybody are using bikes, scooters or horses. I was actually kind of scared that I will find my end under one of those horses, because they were speeding with them.. What would be the odds? I survive the traffic in Baku, Istanbul, Palestine and Iceland.... 

We also did two tours - a free tour and a pubcrawl. Both were not that good. I also work as tour guide myself so I try to be supportive, but the guide of the free tour was smoking, talking with his phone and also not helping the young couple with babytrolley, when we went down from the stairs. He was also advertising this museumpass 24/7 - it went a bit a cross the line. And he also only took us like 300 meters further from the starting point. The pubcrawl was more like a club crawl because  we didn't even visit a single pub. So i lost my pubcrawl virginity to a completely pointless crawl. Darn it! But it was nice to dance in a club, since I haven't done it for ages. 

Tõin endaga Bakuusse Istanbulist kaks raamatut - ühe jõudsin juba läbi lugeda,  Elif Shafak " Honour". See oli omamoodi kurb kuid siiski peaaegu õnneliku lõpuga lugu, mis andis VÄGA palju mõtlemisainet. Teine raamat on kirjutatud Orhan Pamuki poolt, kes on ka Nobeli kirjanduspreemia võitnud. Võib juhtuda, et kooliülesanded jäävad mõneks ajaks tahaplaanile.... Ma lihtsalt jumaldan häid lugusid!

I brought back two souvenirs- Books! One of them I actually already finished - Elif Shafak "Honour". It was a rather sad story with an almost happy ending, but it gave me a lot of things to think about. The second book is written by Orhan Pamuk, who has also won the Nobel prize for literature. It might happen that i have to forget studying for a while.... I just love good stories!