When Istanbul’s heat, humidity and smog become too much to bear, cheap and easy relief is only a walk downhill to the ferry docks. It’s almost always 20 degrees cooler on the water, and the views of the city’s famous Sultanahmet and Galata districts,...
As the ferries, cruisers and container ships seemingly miss each other by a hair’s breadth at the start of the Bosporus, a smaller ferry weaves its way through this finely calibrated chaos on its way from Üsküdar to Eyüp. As the ferries, cruisers and container ships...
Public transport Istanbul’s public transit system can be difficult to figure out; maps are rare and you often have to transfer, and pay another fare, to get where you are going. However, if you put some effort into it, you can avoid taxis and not walk too much....
