Istanbul Sunrise Walking Tour With Traditional Turkish Breakfast
From $150 USD per person · 6 hours
See the historic peninsula the way Istanbullus do: early, quiet and unhurried. Your guide picks you up at your centrally located hotel before first light, and the walk begins in Sultanahmet when the Hippodrome, the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia stand in soft morning light with almost nobody around. Because the monuments do not open until later in the morning, they are admired from the outside on this tour — no interior visits and no entrance tickets are included, which is exactly what makes the squares so empty and photogenic at this hour. You walk the lanes of the Old City while the shutters are still going up, hearing how Byzantium became Constantinople and then Istanbul. Then you board a local commuter ferry to the Asian shore, watching the skyline and the gulls from the water in the first light of the day, and sit down to a full traditional Turkish breakfast — fresh bread, village cheeses, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumber, honey, jams and endless tea. The tour lasts about 6 hours and ends with drop-off at your hotel.Moments from our tours
