Travel Asia | Cities – The Real Istanbul 2 of 2 – BBC Travel Documentary

Cities – The Real Istanbul 2 of 2 – BBC Travel Documentary , recorded 10.10.2010 Istanbul is a city of constancy and contrast – at once historic and cutting-edge contemporary. It is the world’s only city to straddle two continents: the Thracian side dipping Turkey’s big toe in Europe while the rest of the city, and indeed the country, bathes luxuriously in Asia. If your time here is short and you have to choose, I’d go for the European side. This is where you’ll find the Old Town – Sultanahmet – whose treasures recall the city’s place at the centre of the Byzantine empire and as a repository of Ottoman power. It also reflects the modern, secular, republican country envisaged by the father of modern Turkey. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – or Mustafa Kemal to give him his birth name – was a soldier, strategist, thinker, philosopher, ideologue, politician and father figure to a raft of adopted children, as well as figuratively to the entire nation. It’s hard to think of an equivalent 20th Century political figure who inspires such enduring reverence and adulation among his people, regardless of class, gender or religion. A mosque featuring in the mix that is modern-day Turkey It is Ataturk’s legacy that in modern-day Turkey, mosques and muezzin rub along harmoniously with cappuccino bars, cocktail lounges and clubs. Old matriarchs in headscarves and hijabs shove up to share tram seats with girls wearing miniskirts and make-up. The secularist Ataturk is seen by many as an early …

Question by Lady-a: How to travel cheap in Asia?
Im going to china for a month for graduate school. I am planning on staying an addtional 2 weeks. My boyfriend is flying out from Hawaii. We are hoping to go to Thailand and Nepal during this trip. I’ve been looking at plane tickets and so far the prices are pretty high. Are there any other affordible ways to travel between the countries? Does anyone know any good travel sites or places to stay? I’m trying to have the most memorable trip possible on a budget.

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Answer by Sabu Ram P
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Best of luck

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