DOs and DO NOTs
DO
Ride the T1 tram across the Galata Bridge to Beyoglu.
Beyoglu is the “new” city across the
Golden Horn.
New as in a tower there is hundreds of
years old.
But it’s older than the Old City.
Get off at the Karikoy stop, use the
underpass and get on the world’s 2nd oldest subway – a one-stop
funicular up the hill.
When you get out, if you walk a tiny
bit back down the hill past the souvenir shops you will be in one of the
youngest hippest areas – Tunel.
If head north after exiting the
funicular, you are on the pedestrian Istiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue).
It’s about a kilometer long and is the
old Parisian style area of the old upper middle class.
It has chain stores, street vendors,
pastry shops, great architecture, state run cheap book stores and historic
sites all over.
The midpoint of the avenue, where Galatasaray
Lycee sits, is a great place to head off on a side alley and walk the back
streets of Beyoglu.
It ends at Taksim Square.
DO NOT
Stay in Taksim Square.
Though it is well-located for transit
and a public park away from a smattering of chain-flagged hotels, the fringe of
Taksim after dark is getting seedy.
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