One of the many side streets around the square. You can see rugs in windows, on sidewalks, tables set up outside for tea and/or meals. Turkey is a very clean country. You rarely see trash anywhere.
View one direction into the bazaar area. There is always someone in front of the shops to entice you inside. Better still, they have them stationed all around the monuments and bus/taxi drops and they swoop on you like vultures. We must have had an L for loser, D for dummy, I for idiot, T for tourist or target or whatever other letter you might pick, as a neon sign on our foreheads that day because we had one guy we had a hard time shaking, and numerous others trying. We bought nothing there but lunch, and you would not want to purchase there with the way over inflated prices. We decided next visit, we will wear old clothes and go smelly, or we would both wear the overall cover of the women and maybe then we wouldn't be bothered.
Further down the bazaar. We struck it at a quiet time, as the cruise ship tours had been and gone for the morning and the afternoon/evening crowd hadn't arrived. There were some interesting items in the windows of some shops, and I am sure some good bargains, but we didn't check any out. I think better bargains are out of that area.
Gardens and fountain in what used to be the hippodrome or horse race track.
One of the Fountains in the park.
Beautiful!
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