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Full-Day Highlights Tour with Guide and Lunch
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Full-Day Highlights Tour with Guide and Lunch

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Cover Istanbul's greatest sights in a single day on this guided highlights tour. Walk the Hippodrome and Blue Mosque, enjoy a restaurant lunch, and finish among the stalls of the Grand Bazaar.

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This eight-hour guided day covers Istanbul's historic centre on foot, taking in the Hippodrome, the Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar, where the tour ends. Visits to Topkapi Palace and Hagia Sophia are available for additional admission fees, and a cistern visit replaces Topkapi when the palace is closed.

A restaurant lunch and selected central pickup are included. Reviewers appreciate the guides' storytelling but caution that the day involves substantial walking, roughly nine kilometres over hilly ground according to one visitor.

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Address

Binbirdirek, At Meydanı Cd, 34122 Fatih/İstanbul, Türkiye
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Hours

Daily pickup between 8:15 and 10:30. Full-day tour, ~8 hours, ending at the Grand Bazaar.
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Booking

Booking required

Duration

8h

Best time

early morning, morning, lunchtime or afternoon

Intensity

Moderate walking

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Good to know

  • Topkapi and Hagia Sophia entry fees are not included, so budget for them
  • pickup is between 8:15 and 10:30 and hotel drop-off is not offered
  • wear comfortable shoes for hilly streets.
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Reviews

Kemal’s enthusiasm made an extensive seven-hour walk rewarding.

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