One of the oldest buildings in Istanbul is the Grand Bazaar, still selling everything your heart could desire, from jewelry to leather, textiles to ceramics...well, too much to catalog:
Compare the crowds today with 1990:
A beautiful tiled fountain in the Grand Bazaar:
I don't remember so many cats from my prior trip to Turkey, but there are plenty around today; these are the Grand Bazaar's:
I don't even know how I managed to get any photos of the Spice Bazaar this time around - I think there were at least two cruise ship's worth of people packed into it and we had great difficulty even getting into the building (built 1597-1664). Anyway, I doubt there's a spice or sweet on earth you can't get there:
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