Video – Incredible Istanbul: Three Perfect Days
This enormous city is a blend of Europe and Asia in the best possible way. Istanbul is one of the world’s oldest cities – but with its surreal landscape, delicious food, notoriously fun nightlife and vibrant culture attracting all sorts of visitors, the best is yet to come. This is a visual experience of my time with my wife while in Istanbul – one of our last international trips before we have a baby. My advice: put on a paid of headphones and open the video up full screen to enjoy. Incredible Istanbul: Three Perfect Days from Alex Lop on Vimeo. It’s a brisk winter day in Istanbul....
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Perspective. You gain it when you enter the courtyards of the Forbidden City. You learn it when you exchange a smile with a stranger. You taste it with the first savor of hot-pot broth. And you breath it when you stand on the peaks of the Great Wall, with the rest of the world at your feet. China is a place of perspective. It’s lands and people are vastly different from one corner to another – each with unique, colorful and rich cultural nuances that distinguish them in an ever-shifting dance of landscapes. Each encounter here, no matter how brief or how feint, stain memories...
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Happy Monday to all the travelers out there. To kick it off, check out this fantastic time-lapse footage from South East Asia from Vimeo User HDtimelapse.net . Some truly beautiful and inspiring scenery to start – or end – your day to.
Read MoreThe Minute Tour: Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul literally sits on two continents. Half the city is in Europe, and the other half is in Asia. Therefore it’s no understatement to claim that this Turkish city sits at the crossroads of several monumental cultures and heritages. MINOTAUR RECOMMENDATIONS Attractions: There is no shortage of things to see in Istanbul. Head directly to the Old City, which lies on the south banks of the Golden Horn, to visit some of Istanbul’s finest mosques and historical sites. The mosques are free, but museums like the Topkapi Palace and the Hagia Sophia cost...
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