August 25
Grand Bazaar
On August 25th we went to the Istanbul Grand Bazaar. It is one of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world. It covers around 61 streets and has about 3000 stores. When we went it was very crowded, apparently between 300,000 to 400,000 people visit the bazaar every day.
The core or inner part of the Bazaar was built in 1455. The shape of the bazaar as it is today has existed since the seventeenth century. Until about 1894 the bazaar had no real stores, merchants sat on wooden boxes in front of their shelves, today they have what look like proper stores or shops you can walk into and practice your negotiation skills.
You can get almost anything at the bazaar, we bought a backgammon set and the Turkish Okey game I mentioned in the "Other Tour" post. It was very hot and crowded when we went so after a while we decided to leave and go back to the hotel and swim.
Grand Bazaar
On August 25th we went to the Istanbul Grand Bazaar. It is one of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world. It covers around 61 streets and has about 3000 stores. When we went it was very crowded, apparently between 300,000 to 400,000 people visit the bazaar every day.
The core or inner part of the Bazaar was built in 1455. The shape of the bazaar as it is today has existed since the seventeenth century. Until about 1894 the bazaar had no real stores, merchants sat on wooden boxes in front of their shelves, today they have what look like proper stores or shops you can walk into and practice your negotiation skills.
You can get almost anything at the bazaar, we bought a backgammon set and the Turkish Okey game I mentioned in the "Other Tour" post. It was very hot and crowded when we went so after a while we decided to leave and go back to the hotel and swim.
Me outside one of the about 50 light stores we went to, you can see I'd had enough of shopping by then
My dad with one of his many Turkish coffees during the day
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