Bosphorus Cruise by Ferryboat
Decades ago, admiral of Istanbul’s ferryboat arrangement noticed a aberrant thing: adopted tourists were benumbed the ferryboats up the Bosphorus, all the way to the Black Sea at Sariyer and Anadolu Kavagi—and sometimes they rode them all the way aback to the Galata Bridge on the Golden Horn after accepting off!
(The tourists may accept gotten the abstraction from a guidebook.)
Of course, these acute travelers were accepting a acceptable cruise-tour of the Bosphorus, guidebook in hand, for a atom of the amount they’d accept paid to a bout aggregation to yield them in a clandestine boat.
So the bear admiral appointed several Bosphorus bear sailings as Bosphorus Tours, and bargain the amount of berth stops so that the “tour” would not yield so long.
The boating from Eminönü to Sariyer, a arctic Bosphorus boondocks on the European shore, takes just over one hour, but the absolute round-trip boating from Eminönü accomplished Sariyer to Anadolu Kavagi on the Asian bank (with a 1-1/2-hour delay at Anadolu Kavagi), and acknowledgment to the Eminönü ferryboat docks, takes 4-1/2 hours. Here’s the agenda (subject to change), applicative to all canicule of the week, including holidays:
Eminönü
Besiktas
Kanlica
Yeniköy
Sariyer
Rumeli Kavagi
Anadolu Kavagi
10:35am
10:50am
11:15am
11:30am
11:45am
11:55am
12:05pm
13:35 1:35pm
13:50 1:50pm
14:15 2:15pm
14:30
2:30pm
14:45
2:45pm
14:55
2:55pm
15:05
3:05pm
Anadolu Kavagi
Rumeli Kavagi
Sariyer
Yeniköy
Kanlica
Besiktas
Eminönü
15:00
3:00pm
15:10
3:10pm
15:20
3:20pm
15:35
3:35pm
15:50
3:50pm
16:15
4:15pm
16:30
4:30pm
17:00
5:00pm
17:10
5:10pm
17:20
5:20pm
17:35
5:35pm
17:50
5:50pm
18:15
6:15pm
18:30
6:30pm
You can analysis for agenda updates and changes here.
(TurYol boats do the absolute round-trip cruise in alone 1.5 hours. More…)
Many humans cruise for 1.5 hours, get off at Sariyer (23 km/14 afar arctic of Istanbul by road), accept cafeteria (especially seafood), again yield a bus, minibuses or taxis southward, endlessly at assorted architect forth the way. More…
The bear continues above Sariyer to Anadolu Kavagi, on the Asian shore, area the avenue terminates.
The bear again waits at Anadolu Kavagi for several hours, giving cartage time to accept a barbecue or a seafood restaurant cafeteria and/or to ascend to the broke breastwork of seven building on Yusa Tepesi (Joshua’s Hill), reconstructed by the Genoese in 1350, and repaired thereafter by Byzantines and Ottomans.
Frankly, if you’ve done the cruise from south to north, you needn’t do arctic to south. But if you end up at Anadolu Kavagi, there’s no acceptable way to biking south except via the Bosphorus Bout ferry, if it departs for its acknowledgment cruise to the Eminönü ferryboat docks.
On weekdays, the a lot of accepted Bosphorus Bout abandonment is at 10:35 am, but in the balmy months there are after ones at 12:35 pm, and 2:10 message as well.
On Saturday, Sunday and holidays, departures are commonly at 10 am, 11 am, noon, 1.30 pm, and 3 pm.
Times may change of course, but they’ve backward appealing abundant the aforementioned for years. A one-way admission costs YTL7, round-trip YTL12.
Get to the Eminönü ferryboat docks at atomic 30 account afore abandonment if possible, buy your admission and lath the bear in adjustment to get a acceptable seat. (Ignore the guys allurement “Bosphorus tour?” as you access the docks. Buy your admission from the agent in the admission booth.) The boats ample up aboriginal in summer, decidedly on weekends.
You can acknowledgment south by acreage from Sariyer. Here’s an hour-by-hour itinerary.
Besides the acceptable ferry, a baiter accommodating called TurYol runs smaller, faster boats on Bosphorus cruises that yield alone 1.5 hours. More…
The Bosphorus Bout ferries accept been accepted with Istanbullus and visitors anytime since. Even admitting the Bosphorus bridges accept bargain the charge for ferries, and fast “sea bus” baiter ferries now backpack abounding of the driver passengers, and the Turkish Maritime Lines has followed its Ottoman predecessor, the Sirket-i Hayriye, into the pages of history, the a lot of accepted and advantageous Istanbul bear routes are still in business, operated by IDO.
Thank goodness! I’ve consistently admired the abbreviate intra-city voyages on these abundant old boats. Sitting on the rear accouter of a acceptable Istanbul bear on a accomplished summer’s day with a bottle of Turkish tea at my aperture is a active archetype of the appellation of my amusing biking memoir,
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