Skip the gift shop - these ten craft markets are where real souvenirs come from.

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With the rise of the empire, the bazaar thrived and by the 17th century it had taken on its current shape, giving the bazaar its Turkish name Kapalicarsi (Covered Market). Situated in Istanbul's ...

Shoppers walk down a corridor in Istanbul's fabled Grand Bazaar. Bob Krist/Corbis Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar is the world’s most-visited tourist attraction—a cacophony of haggling vendors and tempting ...

The ever busy streets of Grand Bazaar not only offer some fine fabrics but are also home to exquisite delicacies. With 61 streets and more than 4000 shops, this tourist hotspot is a colorful labyrinth ...

Turkey has so much to explore. For me, the two places in Turkey that are completely unlike anywhere else are its capital ...

1) It’s big. It’s chaotic. Get over it. If you’re anything like us, you’ll spend the time it takes to get here — and the first five minutes shuffling past all the leather jackets — freaking out.

Dodging four men pushing a cart full of honeydew melons, I step out of the noisy traffic of Istanbul, pass through the horseshoe-arched door, and trade one commotion for another. Suddenly the air — ...

As historic buildings face being turned into hotels, the pursuit of tourist dollars will destroy what visitors come to see, say tenants of ancient market In Instanbul’s Grand Bazaar, where eager ...

The advice that guidebooks are likely to dispense about visiting Kapaliçari, Istanbul's Grand Bazaar—"Learn to haggle" or, perhaps, "Guard against pickpockets"—reduces the world's oldest covered ...