We spent a couple of hours walking north from the Golden Horn past old Ottoman palaces (now museums), and through a couple of university campuses to get to this location. We’d seen pictures of the view before we left, and it’s spectacular.

There are cafés along the plaza here too. Not the most heavily touristed area. Recommended!

Going through the pictures, trying to organize, and still I have amazing memories (and some okay photos) of the shipping traffic of the Bosporus, stuff moving past Istanbul to and from the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara.

Here’s one showing ferries, tankers, and to the left on the horizon Maiden’s Tower, where Hero and Leander met, and where a James Bond villain (or more?) set up a base-of-operations.