{"id":2811,"date":"2015-12-04T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2016-02-04T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T17:32:25","slug":"princes-islands-istiklal-street-istanbul-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/princes-islands-istiklal-street-istanbul-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Princes Island, Taksim & Istiklal"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a saddening experience in Izmir<\/a>, we were back in Istanbul for the last day of our Turkey trip. Weather was once again not reliable, but we still headed to Princes’ Islands after breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"Funiculur<\/a>
Funiculur to Kabatas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We took the cheapest ferry to Princes’ Islands for 6TL one way.<\/p>\n

\"Horse<\/a>
Horse cart stand on Buyukada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Europe's<\/a>
Europe’s largest wooden house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"2pm<\/a>
2pm on a cloudy day in the Bosphorus Strait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u00a0freshened up at our hotel, had a hearty chat with the owner about regional politics and headed to Istiklal street.<\/p>\n

\"One
One of the last Simits of our trip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Endless<\/a>
Endless varieties of Baklawa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were pretty stressed out towards the end of the day and only had enough energy to pick up our bags from the cloak room and jump on to the airport shuttle bus. Ironically, traffic on the Asian side of Istanbul held\u00a0us down for a couple of hours. We checked in just 45 mins before the flight and FlyDubai still managed a timely departure.<\/p>\n

This is the last post from my\u00a0Turkey Roadtrip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a saddening experience in Izmir, we were back in Istanbul for the last day of our Turkey trip. Weather was once again not reliable, but we still headed to Princes’ Islands after breakfast. We took the cheapest ferry to Princes’ Islands for 6TL one way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1121,1120,1154,1122,213,895,1151,1153,934,1110,1152,1106,1115],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-birds","tag-bosphorus","tag-buyukada","tag-cruise","tag-ferry","tag-instagram","tag-istiklal-street","tag-princes-islands","tag-river","tag-road-trip","tag-taksim-square","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-roadtrip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/day-8-princes-islands-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}