Tours in Istanbul for the weekend: how to spend the weekend in a saturated way

When waiting for a long time to wait a very long time, and the soul wants to escape from the gray everyday life, you need to give yourself a bright and full of impressions weekend. There's nothing to spend Saturday-Sunday behind the TV! We go for a walk ... abroad! Is it possible? After all, you need a visa and time for the journey ... Tours to Istanbul for the weekend with a charter flight will allow you to quickly get to the city on two continents and without any problems to return to the morning of Monday to work. A visa to Turkey is acquired upon arrival at the airport, so the decision to go abroad can be taken "at the last minute".

People who choose tours to Istanbul for the weekend, save on air tickets (because charter flights and cost less than usual) and overnight in the hotel. The standard program is three days and two nights. There is also an option offering four days and three nights. The ticket issued through a travel agency includes, as a rule, flights, accommodations in a 3-star hotel with breakfast and two or three excursions, one of which is a sightseeing tour by bus. You can also arrange the rest by booking a hotel through the site and getting to Istanbul by plane or other means of transport.

So, you are already in the biggest city of Turkey. It is huge and full of attractions, and you only have that 2-3 days. If you are not in a group, look for a hotel in Sultanahmet, Beyoglu or Taksim, so you do not have to spend a lot of time traveling to the historic center of the city. It is also strategically advantageous to settle near the Eminenu jetty, from where tram boats run to various areas. Tours to Istanbul for the weekend with the group will give you the opportunity to get more fully acquainted with the city, lying simultaneously in Europe and Asia. Thanks to the sightseeing tour you will be able to decide what it is worth to visit more in depth. Perhaps you want to make a successful shopping in the commercial district of Laleli.

All tours to Istanbul for the weekend include a visit to the Sultan's Topkapi Palace, two mosques - Blue and Hagia Sophia, Hippodrome, the residence of Dolmabachie. What else should you see the traveler? We recommend to go to the area of the Great Bazaar and find the Suleymaniye Mosque, where the mausoleum of the famous Roksolana and her husband Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent are located. By the way, this mosque withstood a 7-point earthquake and did not give a single crack! And in the evening you can plunge into the noisy atmosphere of the bazaar, and even if you do not buy anything at all, you surely will get impressions.

A weekend tour to Istanbul includes a boat trip along the Bosphorus. To see a lot of openwork bridges, to feel a fresh breeze on your face, to hear the cries of gulls circling the Golden Horn and enjoy the impressive panorama of the city you can yourself. Go to the pier Eminenu: from there are sent as a trip "tram", and pleasure boats.

Weekend tours to Istanbul will give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the authentic atmosphere of the Middle East. Unlike rest in Antalya and other coastal resorts, where tourists are surrounded by a completely European atmosphere of hotels, Istanbul, with its ever-bustling bazaars, the labyrinth of narrow streets of the Sultanahmet district, bursts into your life a powerful wave of new impressions. Do not deny yourself the pleasure to go with the flow in this joyful stream of bubbling life. Drink a few tiny cups of tea with an apple or coffee with spices, taste real oriental sweets, poke and bargain in the shopping arcade, walk around Taksim district, visit the Galata tower and enjoy watching a belly dance in some kervansaray.