At a place near our hotel smoking hookah and drinking
Efes, the local Turkish beer.



Inside the Blue Mosque. Surprisingly it's a lot smaller and less
dramatic than the outside eludes to.

Inside the Hagia Sophia. Originally constructed between 532 and 537 AD it was
the largest Cathedral in the world for nearly 1000 years.










We got up at 4am on this day and wandered to the mosques to see the sights
and listen to the daily prayer that begins at daybreak (usually around 4:30)

Blue Mosque on the left, Hagia Sophia on the right


View from Hagia Sophia overlooking the Blue Mosque