15 July 2013

views from Topkapi Palace



Topkapi Palace was pretty amazing.  As the former house of Selim the Sot who died from drinking too much champagne, Roxelana a concubine and confidant of Suleyman the Magnificent, and numerous other powerful and crazy Ottomans, the Palace is a pretty cool place to check out.  The structure itself is incredibly beautiful and inside you will find diamonds as big as your hand along with other precious jewels in the Treasury, numerous opulent chambers, awesome views of the Bosphorous, and of course, the Sultan's Harem.  More on that to come....

5 comments:

  1. I love Tapioca, I had some for lunch at the salad bar the other day.

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  2. Em, your mom is cute.

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  3. Love the shots of the city through the fence. And you description of Topkapi!!

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  4. Thanks all for the nice comments!!

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  5. also, umm, weirdly enough by chance my mom and I dressed identically the whole trip!!

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