First Time In ISTANBUL TÜRKIYE | We BIKED 2500 Miles To Get Here!
We explore Istanbul Türkiye for the first time after bikepacking 2500 miles to get there from London. We see the sights on the Asia and European side of the city including the Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar. We also witness Republic Day of Turkey and try some yummy Turkish food.
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Liz & Alex
About us: We are Liz and Alex, a married couple that makes outdoor adventure and travel videos. We strongly believe that dreams are meant to be pursued, and we hope to motivate others to get outside their comfort zones and do the same. We are full-time nomads and divide up our time between traveling abroad and the other part of the time in our self converted van all the while fitting in loads of outdoor-based adventure along the way! Our goal is to show you amazing places and inspire you to get outside your comfort zone and pursue your dreams...whatever they may be.
Since animals are treated very well in Turkey, they are extremely friendly. I love cats very much. Türkiye is a true paradise for cats 😊
We noticed that! Everyone treats the cats so well in Turkey. We miss all the friendly neighborhood cats 🐈🐱
Turk here. Animals arent treated very well in Turkey. This is a common misconception. Most of the turks don’t love pets, hence they are on the streets. Otherwise we would own them right? They die under the cars most of the time. This isn’t well treatment. We cant control them so they go astray on the streets.
@@COMPTROL I have been going to Turkey since 2016. I work for a month. I'm having fifteen days of vacation. I have been to many cities and stayed there. I haven't come across anyone like that. In fact, I have never come across a weak and miserable cat or dog anywhere I went. On the contrary, I have seen many cats and dogs that are fat. Not being able to control their numbers can be a problem. This requires serious money. Türkiye has been in a serious economic crisis in recent years. Maybe that's why the authorities may not be paying enough attention. But what I see is that they all take care of the animals as best they can. They are trying to cope in this way rather than trying to put them to sleep (!).
Government needs to make them sterile. Dogs and cats are out of control
@@COMPTROL They would never be friendly if they were not treated well
I am from Pakistan Married with a phillipina. No doubt turkey is beautiful and our brother country but visit Pakistan too.pakistan is a heaven on earth
We’d love to visit Pakistan someday too!
Who told you that Pakistan is brother of Turkey? There is no such a thing.Its your imagination.
İt looks super clean..
Good to see you guys in our country. Enjoy!
Thank you!
Turkey seems so nice. I will visit soon
Wonderful journey! I can't handle big crowds either, and sometimes just watching daily life around is more fulfilling.
So true! 🙌🏼
Welcome to our country, 🇹🇷very nice video, thank you, I subscribed to your channel.
Aww thank you for the warm welcome ☺️☺️🫶🏼
Ülkemize hoşgeldiniz. Allah sizi korusun 🤲🏽
Excellent adventure, hope you enjoyed your stay in Turkey
Thank you!
Çok güzel video olmuş emeğinize sağlık 👍🇹🇷
OH MY MOST FAVORITA CITY IN THE WORLD
Biking from London is insane... I'd love to see that journey tbh
Hi! We have a full playlist of videos if you want to check it out! kzhead.info/channel/PLCVLGxXUukdKDGxErts32RFeGIcruLZkO.html
Podrška vašem lijepom videu iz prijateljske Bosne.Sve je prekrasno.Zdravi bili i puno putovali. sufarabosna.ba podržava vaš humani rad
Great adventure from London to Istanbul. Congratulation to both of you safely ended the long bicycle journey across Europe. I enjoy watching all your videos. I hope both of you get a full rest at home after Epic Adventure.
Thank you! It was truly an epic adventure for us. Hope we can have another long one some day🙌🏼
Been following you since the GDMBR and so glad to see you guys continuing your life travels! Stoked to see where youre off to next!
Wow that’s awesome! Thanks for following along ☺️🙌🏼
Loved it all, in fact started watching this trip from the beginning again! Best wishes Jeremy
Wow that’s nice to hear that you enjoyed the series enough for another pass through it! Makes the many hours spent editing it feel worth it 🫶🏼
loved watching your journey. from the start in London, going through France and so on; seeing the sites and meeting the people. almost like I was there. remined me of my bike trips (only in the states though)
Wow🙌 I’m just so impressed. I have been watching all the episodes from London to Istanbul this weekend📺 Your journey on the bike inspires me🚴🏻♀️💖
So glad the series inspires you! Comments like these keep us motivated to create content. Thanks and happy adventuring!
Amazing journey pleased to see you arrived safely. I think you deserve a traffic free ride
İstanbul'a hoş geldiniz
İyi gezmeler İyi eğlenceler 👍
what a amazing couple
Thank you!
Gonna miss you guys - until the next adventure perhaps Thank you.
Aww thanks! We have some fun adventures coming up soon ❤️
Hoşgeldiniz ☺️
Cracking trip 👍
Thanks! It was amazing!
Whooohooo 🎉
Wow, what an exciting trip... The point is you made it and didn't throw in the towel, that's called Victory... Always when you make a video look into the camera, and take of the shades, when talking to people serious, you need to ser the eyes... Great video, stay safe😊
Love the old-school James Bond-ish music while you were photographing the boats around 3:00 ! 🎶 And I’m with you, Liz - can’t deal with crowds, and adding the underground aspect really kicks my claustrophobia into high gear. But it looked magical, if only I were rich/famous enough for a private tour! 😂
Right? 😅 Private tour would be great there!
İstanbul💕
Love this video, Thanks for sharing…. Greeting from IRAN 🇮🇷 ❤
Oh wow all the way in Iran! Thank you ❤️
Don't tell me it's over already Sunday will not be the same without watching your advanture I watched the great devide trip as well Can't wait to see what's next Thanks for all your time and effort with the video
Hi Steve! Aww thank you ☺️So glad you enjoyed the videos.
Your a better man/woman than I am Gunga Din ! those crowds no way .Great series of videos thanks for posting .
Glad you enjoyed the series! It was unfortunate that the day we set aside to explore had a cruise come in.
Very nice video Istanbul ✅
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your most excellent adventure. What's next? As you started in London, perhaps you should go north and do the highlights of northern Britain: Lake District, Hadrian's Wall and the Scottish Highlands and Islands would keep you busy, but beware the midges when you get north of Edinburgh.
Wow just googled Scottish midges and wow that’s terrifying 😅 We’d love to bikepack scottland someday. We heard so many good things. Alex struggles with the rain so it’s going to take some convincing. 😆
Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird 'turkey'...... .....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :) In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name. Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages, but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :) Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's. The name it self has a suffix, '-iye', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to', just like the Latin suffix of '-ia', which exists in such country names like Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Indones-ia etc. Basically, the use of '-iye/-ia' is the same as the the use of '-land' suffix in country names like Ire(Eire)-land, Po(le)-land, Eng(Anglo)-land and so on and so on. Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10,000 years is much older than Latin which is around 1300 years old. Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble (to sound like) 'Türkiye' we got various spellings like; Turq-uía (in Spanish), Turch-ia (in Italian), Turq-uie (in French) Turk-ei (in German) Turk-ey (in English) Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as turkey was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named turkey.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken'... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as Greek or you don't call the terrier Britirsh, or shepherd as simply German, but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years. Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas. Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)
Hey guys, loved this series so much. Planning to go to Istanbul from France next month. Do you have a link to your route? Would be interested in your way through/around the alps. Thanks!
We made a guide and put it on our website, www.pursuingmountains.com. You should be able to find our route there. Have a great trip!
Welcome my country ❤
Thank you!
You should have visited the Hagia Sophia
Hi from Türkiye 🙋
Hi! 🙋🏻♀️
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Istanbul is an interesting city where you can get the cheapest treatments in the world. for example, while the price of a kidney transplant operation in United States is 330 thousand dollars, in Turkey it costs 22 thousand dollars to get it done in an American brand hospitals!
Arkadaşlar videonuz gayet güzel ama ben bir Türk ve bir İstanbullu olarak şunu söylemeliyim ki, tatlı yemek için gittiğiniz Hafız Mustafa hiç de iyi bir tercih değil. O firma geleneksel bir tatlı üreticisi değil, aslında tatlı ürünlerin satışıyla ilgilenen bir firma. Firmanın logosundaki tarih yazısı da sadece bir marka adıdır. O tarih ibaresine bakıp da eski bir kurum olduğunu sanmayın, o sadece bir markadır. Türkiye'de tatlı ve şekerli ürünler yemek istiyorsanız, üretici olan şu üç firmayı tercih etmelisiniz: Güllüoğlu, Hacı Bekir ve Koska.. En iyileri bunlardır. Ayrıca, özellikle künefe tatlısı Hatay künefesi olmalıdır. İyi yolculuklar..🖐🖐👋👋👋
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Thank you! ☺️
Oh wie schade. War das der letzte Film von eurer Reise? Ihr seit eigentlich aus den USA??? Habe auch das richtig verstanden? So viele Fragen am Ende😂😊❤
Ja, das war der letzte Film. Ja, wir sind aus den USA. Was sind Ihre Fragen? Danke fürs zuschauen!
Das war eine außergewöhnliche Reise. Aus den USA nach GB. Dann weiter durch Europa. Das erklärt auch die Probleme mit den Ersatzteilen für die Räder. Und jetzt, wollt ihr einmal die USA durchqueren?
welcome.... how many days are you planning to stay ?
Aww we already left! It was a nice visit tho ☺️
don't feel wierd, to the izmir!
I wish we had time, but we had to get back to working. Maybe someday…
Izmiri sevmiyoruz 😜 abi sizin kusunuz 🐦 kalkiyormu 🥒🤓
worst time to be a tourist in Turkey, try coming to istanbul in the summertime. Its even more beatiful when its not crowded..
Yes, I think our timing was not great….We hope to go back someday and see it properly and the rest of the country!
1:17 Just so you know that's not a traditional Turkish pastry. It looks like Berliner, German donut with filling.
Will you come to Adana to eat Adana kebap? İm here to guest you
❤ ola Brasil Rio de Janeiro são Gonçalo Niterói brazil 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
More power to your legs my friends
伊斯坦布尔美丽宜人
Türkiye'yi gezerken neden Hint müzigi kulandınız yanlış tercih yapmışsınız
Kullandığımız müziklerin tamamı Türkiye veya Türkçe anahtar kelimeleriyle etiketlendi.
@@PursuingMountains good music bro.
03:17 I'm a streetphotographer in Turkey, people always asking me to take pics of them :D It's a common thing in here. Please don't take it as offensive :p
Haha. I didn’t take it as an offense, it was just unusual. It has only happened to me one or two times.
if you bike that distance with my bike you wouldn't even make the 1 10th of that way. modern and expensive bikes are like motorcycles. you push one pedal and woop you are 10 feet away...
Not sure what you mean by this. But although our bikes are somewhat new, they’re still just regular bikes, NOT e-bikes. We’ve documented the entire series on our channel if you want to check it out.
I can't believe you're publishing a video recorded in October 2023 now in April 2024. Is this much delay intentional?
Sort of. We biked from London to Istanbul which took us about 10 weeks, once we finished, we filmed this video, but it took us months to edit all of the videos from the bike trip and we had to edit all of those before this one.
@@PursuingMountains Nevertheless, all the best to you
What does Arabic music have to do with it?
All of the music we chose was tagged with the keyword “Türkiye” or “Turkish”
This music is Arabic music. There is no such music belonging to Turks. I lived in Turkey for 20 years.@@PursuingMountains
Hagia Sofia never been a pagan church
You’re right Hagia Sophia never was but, as I said in the video, it was built at the site of a Pagan Temple hagiasophiaturkey.com/history-hagia-sophia/
Is it still safe to travel there with the Israel and Iran conflict going on?
I don’t know how it is now, but we were there in late October of last year when everything was happening and we felt pretty safe, at least no less safe than any other major city
Its very far actually like germany to russian-ukranian war
Why would a conflict between two different countries outside Turkey make Turkey dangerous?
Ülkemin tüm mültecileri gitsin, tüm bölücülerden kurtulsun ve güzel günleri hep devam etsin. Tahtaya vurun, nazar değmesin 🧿🧿🧿
Please spell it the right way, no more Turkey ( bird); it's Turkiye. Thanks.
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is Turkey a secular country? is hijab mandatory?
Officially Turkey is a secular country. Hijab is not mandatory except for mosques
@@PursuingMountains oh thanks!!
Kesinlikle, istediğinizi giyinip dolaşabilirsiniz.İstanbul tarihi açıdan önemli yapıları barındırıyor fakat doğa bakımından Ege ve Akdeniz muhteşemdir. Kesinlikle Ege ve akdeniz kıyılarını görmeden ayrılmayın.Filmlerde Türkiye'yi Arap ülkeleri gibi gösteriyorlar fakat öyle bir ülke değiliz.Amerika ve Avrupa kadar medeni ve özgür bir ülkeyiz sağlıcakla kalın.
Please listen carefully, we Turks are very tired of you Western Europeans thinking of us as Arabs. The music you put in the background has nothing to do with Turks, but with Arabs, and Arab music and Turkish music are not similar to each other. Classical Turkish music is a mixture of Eastern Roman music and traditional Turkish music. We know you have no bad intentions, but since the West has persistently portrayed us as Arabs for the last 100 years, we have lost our tolerance for this situation. Please, if you do not know Turkish music, do not put music with the desire of appropriate music. Because you put Arabic and desert music in the background because you think it is Turkish music.
All of the music we put in the video was tagged with the keywords “Türkiye” or “Turkish”
Nor Turkey...Türkiye or Turkiye plz...
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İstanbul metroları metrobüsleri bu belediye başkanı zamanında bukadar kötü ve yetersiz hale geldi
Wellcome to Türkiye. Lots of good spots and lost of good youtube videos.
Thank you!