When you travel with your family and especially with your Shopaholic wife, a market is a must-go place. Just as other good husbands, I had to take my wife shopping to the famous Grand Bazaar of Istanbul. The Grand Bazaar is just as its called, GRAND! It’s a huge labyrinth of almost 5,000 colorful shops, making it one of the largest indoor marketplaces in the world. In this Bazaar, you’ll get every big to a small thing you need at a reasonable price. Be it jewelry, antiques, spices, home interior stuff or hand-painted ceramic, you’ll get what you want along with tasty traditional street foods of turkey, we tried the traditional kebabs, and yes they were low spiced. This market is very active and overly crowded. It was so hard to walk through the long, crowded streets with kids.
This indoor bazaar is home to two Mosques, two Hamaams or steam baths, four fountains and the Cevahir Bedesten– an old market, where you’ll find the most valuable and rarest items like old coins, traditional jewelry with precious gems and antique furniture.

VISIT THE PEARL CITY OF MEDITERRANEAN RIVIERA – ANTALYA

Antalya is another large and vibrant city with numerous hotels, restaurants, resorts, and bars. It’s the paradise on earth, the pearl city of the Mediterranean, and the Turkish Riviera, considered as the fourth most visited city in the world. Is this beautiful city you get to see breathtaking beaches and green mountains with ancients sites spread over it. From swimming and sailing to mountain climbing, sightseeing and family fun, Antalya offers something for everyone.
A walk around Kaleiçi, the Old Quarter, offers a step back into the city’s ancient past with views of the old city walls, Roman gates, maze-like streets and historic structures that include the Clock Tower.
ASPENDOS:
Aspendos is one of the best preserved ancient theatres of antiquity. It was built in 155 AD, during the rule of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The theatre could accommodate between 15,000 and 20,000 spectators. Aspendos is considered as the most excellent surviving example of a classical age theater still standing in the world, without losing almost any of its original beauty; it is one of antiquity’s star attractions. It’s just south of Antalya. There are more ruins to explore over a vast hilly area if you have time.
Here comes my Favorite place – Cappadocia. Situated in Central Antalya, Cappadocia is best known for its fairytale landscape of unusual formations resembling chimneys, cones, and pinnacles. Natural processes such as ancient volcanic eruptions and erosion have all sculpted these odd formations.
It is packed with thousands of rock churches caves and living spaces left by early Christians; a mass network of underground cities also appears on most travel tours. Today, some of the caves in the region are actually hotels to cater tourists. It feels weird to stay in these hotels, but they are not too expensive to give it a try.

For the view, If you don’t feel like hiking, Cappadocia is one of the world’s top destinations to take a hot air balloon ride – it’s expensive though. An early morning sunrise hot air balloon trip is the way to enjoy the beauty of this place and the proper way to see it over. And If it isn’t enough to tempt you, nestled in these valleys are the frescoed rock-cut churches of the Byzantine Era, when this area was an important early Christian site.
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