Where East Meet West - Istanbul (Ancient Byzantium)
Posted On Thursday, August 15, 1996 at at 1:17 AM by AlvinYes we had landed in Turkey ! Istanbul was one buzzling city where the river traffic never stopped on The Bosphorus. The country where East would meet West presented the visitor with a dazzling mix of modernity and steepness in cultural heritage - one just felt the grandeur of history making its mark at every stone and corner of this great city.
We enjoyed the exotic fusion of the Christian and Muslim worlds as we walked and visited the breath-taking monuments of Byzantium and tried to picture its heyday as the commanding centre of Western civilisation of years long gone - the new Rome established to oversee the empire and of course, we lamented over a Rake, the local fire water, its eventual and inevitable demise.
The city of Troy was a wee bit touristy but hey this was after all, where the famous battle took place; so you would know now what to do if you saw a wooden horse outside your house...
We enjoyed the exotic fusion of the Christian and Muslim worlds as we walked and visited the breath-taking monuments of Byzantium and tried to picture its heyday as the commanding centre of Western civilisation of years long gone - the new Rome established to oversee the empire and of course, we lamented over a Rake, the local fire water, its eventual and inevitable demise.
The city of Troy was a wee bit touristy but hey this was after all, where the famous battle took place; so you would know now what to do if you saw a wooden horse outside your house...
