What, When and How to do in Istanbul? 

First, please, let us remind you some particularities of Istanbul for its visitors:

• Locations of the monumental sights as there are great wonders 

• connections between the quarters of Istanbul with a unique landscape 

• complex and intense urban parts some are 1700 years-old neighborhods 

• colliding ages and fusing civilizations make it worth a bit extra effort

• safe city but there are tricksters!  

Do you need a guide in Istanbul? 

To answer this question, you have to know your self a little bit and consider the time you have. 

You can be quite fine after some effort, if you are a person with these two characteristics:

• eager searching, reading learning about a destination with a deep history on your own in the last a few weeks before your landing
• prone to try and error looking for places and even take pleasure sometimes even to get a bit lost

On the other hand, if you are really busy already and about to arrive in Istanbul to give a break, getting some local and professional help would contribute a lot. 

If you think that you are in the grey area between these, of course, usually having some local guiding at certain points would help a lot. So, you can still get lost a little bit while discovering a local popular market. Meanwhile, you might save a good deal of time and effort thanks to the services of a guide in Istanbul.

Istanbul: A Complicated City

There are many beautiful cities on the world that you could savour in the best fashion while strolling through its streets and shops. Just to give a couple of examples; Berlin, Amsterdam or Barcelona might be the best free-spirited European cities of this kand. 

Istanbul is a little bit different because of mainly  two reasons. First, its layered history, as an imperial capital for more than a millenium, makes a visit here really demanding for knnoledge. Regarding the course of the ages and flow of civilizations, a professional and trained touch could make a significant difference to get more from your trip. Second, Istanbul is usually labeled rightly as safe but its historical quarters requires a guiding assistance if you want to see most in a limited time like 3 or 4 days.

If you have only one or two days, without a question, you better arrange a guiding service from an authorized agency in Istanbul to save time for the museum entrances and reaching with best timings in-between the sights. 

• Single day programs to squeeze a healthy amount of visits
• Two-day combos to make a depth 
• Three-day itinararies to make a plan in depth

If you would like to look for insider detail on a guiiding platform about Istanbul, here you can find various options to build your own program to discover Istanbul: https://cogito.istanbul