Underground Palaces and Flying Carpets

Our visit to the Basilica Cistern, and underground palace that supplied the city of Constantinople is so far a highlight of our trip. The Byzantium Emperor Justinian built this in AD532 to supply water to surrounding buildings.









Eventually for some reason or another this underground palace was forgotten. During Ottoman days it was treated as a dumping ground for junk and even dead corpses.







After our visit to the Cistern a leisurely 10 minute walk took us back to the Grand Bazaar where we were suckers once again. We came across a carpet seller that has ties with Australia and ended up bargaining for another Turkish rug. Do these guys ever tire from folding and unfolding rugs? They must of unrolled at least thirty rugs by the time we came across the "one".










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Location:Konak Sk,,Turkey