Bazaar

Bakery

Public fountain

A Finnish guy I met in Goreme

Just another morning in Goreme…

My 2 lira lunch… Delicious!

Spent the afternoon playing backgammon with some guys working at the grand bazaar…

Ran into them hours later at a Nargile cafe… Now learning to play dominos…

This was my dinner tonight. Baby lamb Cooked over coals in a sealed hole in the ground.

Basilica Cistern

Blue Mosque in the distance.

Turkish Kofta

Hagia Sofia: built and acted as a church for 1100 years, then converted to a Mosque in 1453 under the Ottoman empire. It was secularized and turned into a museum in 1931.

Hagia Sofia

Nadia at the guard’s chamber of Hagia Sofia.