Istanbul Day 4 - Sultan Suleyman's Mosque, Basilica Cistern & Forum Istanbul

Its 239am now,so even I have so much in my mind to write, but my fingers & brain are just not working in parallel.

So let the pictures tell the tale, shall we?

University of Istanbul

On our 4th day in Istanbul, the first thing we did in the morning was to revisit Sultan Suleyman's Mosque, as we didn't mange to get a nice picture of it the night earlier (read : Istanbul Day3). Still it was snowing "cats & dogs" but in the mornings, I tell you,  it wall totally a different picture. So serene, I never appreciated snow that much in my life. Not since I met with the snow in Russia.

Outside of Sultan Suleyman Mosque 

Inside of Sultan Suleyman's Mosque

After that, we thought of walking our way to Basilica Cistern even though we actually have no idea where the roads ahead are leading us to. 100% following our instinct (yes, that much of confidence we have). Of course, we never reached the Cistern. Instead we went to the wrong place which turned out to be an area of local shops & markets that rarely  tourists go to. What else you can get there besides bargains which are sold with marked down price (as meant for locals)? *yippie yai yay*

She actually bought 2 pair of those

Dyna straight away bought 2 pair of boots that she was eyeing on since Day 1 we arrived and I bought all the pashminas in the world. Well, obvious not all, sorry for the exaggeration! You can never see any happier tourists than both of us that day!

The moment I became so "rambang mata"

Too much time spent at the shops and too many plastic bags to carry around, we decided to post-pone our visit to Basilica Cistern to after lunch.

Basilica Cistern

Medusa

For dinner, we decided to explore more of Istanbul so we googl-ed for the largest shopping complex there - Forum Istanbul. It was pretty huge but the part that is undeniably huge is the food court over there. Countless restaurants, take-aways from one end to another. To no surprise we ended up spending most of the time at the food court eating one thing after another. Shopped for a while as we all were a bit 'pokai' already for the day.