and you will be greeted by these heavy duty professionals... man, surely they know what they are doing... the one standing up is on-duty (with his uniform), the one sitting down is off-duty.

The sandals you will wear inside... just as slippery as without...

Since the inside is *censored*, here is what happened (in the ancient times)

and you get to sit next to the fountain for some good food and tea afterwards

or a much better illustration of what Turkish Bath is like... presented by Kate Moss~

These were all the famous ones who have been here... Cameron Diaz is one of them...

Recommended as "One of the 1000 places to see before you die"... well, at least you will die clean after visiting this place...

Today is also one of the 3 days public holiday after Ramadan... Everyone just came out to the city, everywhere... I have never seen so many people before in Istanbul....

The pier where we took our Bosphorus cruise

Our cruise boat

This is one of the regular ferries that cross the strait

Bosphorus Strait, separated Istanbul from Europe to Asia