On the way back from Vienna to Malaysia, I had more than 24 hours transit in Turkey. Hence, did a last minute booking in Cheers hostel. So far, the best hostel I have ever stayed throughout my summer trip. What a coincidence that most of my friends that have travelled to Turkey stayed here as well!
A golden retriever ready to welcome you to Turkey. According to this super friendly owner of Cheers, they actually adopted him few years back when he was only a puppy and now.. he’s all grown up.
On the top floor there is a lounge for travelers to chill, all 4 of us slept here all morning because we arrived in Turkey around 5AM and we could only check in pass 12PM.
Lunch was chicken in some sauce with yoghurt wrapped around in Turkish bread, tried out their so-called famous beverage apple flavoured BOZCA but turned out to be Zapple.
One thing about Turkish people, their forte is definitely business. Right after dinner they invited us next door to see how hand made crafts were made and what to you know… after so much persuasion we ended up carrying back bags of scarves.
Turkey is famous for apple tea, here’s a model manipulated for promoting purposes.
Visited an underground city, Basilica Cistern. This reminded of the Labyrinth in Budapest. It is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul.
There were two statues of Medusa and a brief history about her, I managed to wait patiently in order to snap these pictures cause’ all the professional photographers were hogging the entire area with their Dslr.
Came across a park with heaps of people, mainly children feeding pigeons! There was this particular boy with light blue spectacles, a stand-out among all the kids because he was the cutest.
An overview of Istanbul, Turkey through the lounge on the top most floor of Cheers hostel.
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