Istanbulians are very friendly people.  That is the first thing I noticed when I got off the tram from the airport.  People were stopping me in the street and asking me where I am from and how am I today.  Very different from the western culture I grew up in.  It resembles more closely the central asain cities I visited at the begining of my trip this summer.  The city itself is full of trees and seaside views.  It is a large city divided by the Bosphorus Sea which leads to the Black Sea.  On either side of the sea is the "European Side" and the "Asian Side".  Parts of the old city walls left from the times of the Byzantine Empire still dot the center of the city, and most of the popular tourist destinataions are located inside these remnents.  My favorite excusion so far had been a ferry ride up the Bosphorus Sea.  There is so much more to see here in Turkey, apart from Istanbul itself.  I hope to come back to Turky another time and see other Turkish tresures such as the Kapidokia caves, which are old caves carved into calcium rock formatins which Greek Christians used to live in. 

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