Standing in Europe, looking at Asia. Istanbul

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The_Bison_King on January 9th, 2022 at 16:03 UTC »

This is a god tier photograph

panimicipanka on January 9th, 2022 at 16:51 UTC »

Wow, everybody in the comments saying this is Blue Mosque without any source. Guys, you know, there are lots of mosques in Istanbul, and this one is Çamlıca Mosque which is completed in 2019 and located at Anatolian (Asian) side of Istanbul.

nada_especial on January 9th, 2022 at 18:11 UTC »

Istanbul is hands down the most beautiful major city I've seen so far, and hopping back and forth between Europe, Asia and back on the water taxis is just part of the charm. Walking so much, up and down through so many different eras that still feel alive. Love that city, although i don't love the crazy militarized police presence with their tanks all over. It's a blight in downtown DC and I especially hate it in Istanbul.

Also far and away the best food city I've personally experienced. Nowhere in Europe, not London, not Paris or Lyon, not Florence or Bologna, Napoli or Roma, not Athens or Thessaloniki, not Vienna and Salzburg, neither Budapest nor Prague nor Warsaw, not anywhere in Spain including San Sebastian and even Barcelona really competes (though that may be my personal second-place region). Same for Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima in Japan and Hong Kong and Shanghai in China, and for Beirut and Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Rio, Santiago, and Buenos Aires, even New York City... nowhere have I come across a city that has a fighting chance to claim the title culinary capital of the world like Istanbul does.

It's impossible to go 50 feet in any direction in that jewel of a city without coming across sites and smells that get flood the mouth with saliva, with flavors from East and West and South down Africa way coming together. The bakeries and pastries, the buffalo clotted cream, the yogurts, the mounds of mussels and pomegranates (and all the fruits!), the kebobs, sea food, the grilled meats, the the fermented grain drinks, the ancient little one-person eateries in the ground floors of their homes... in 45 years of travel it's definitely my number one for food by a wide margin. The markets! THE MARKET! Oh man, I look forward to a return when possible.