Day 1 (Turkey)

After 7 hours of flight from KL to Qatar (DOHA), the first thing I'm looking for, SMOKING ROOM! Hahahaha..... The addictions is killing me. Sighs. And also the problems that I've thinking while in the plane. Too much tensions! Sorry guys, no pictures yet as I'm using my colleague's laptop to write this blog. (Not so high tech like mine that's why can't upload photos yet) LOL. Just kidding. So where am I.... Oh... At Doha. I see alot of Sheiks here..... LOL. Those filthy rich Sheiks.

Anyway, the transit wasn't too long until we take our next flight to Turkey (Istanbul). Another 5 hours of flight there. It feels like forever. Upon reaching the airport in Istanbul, we were greeted by a local tour guide here. He was nice and friendly. And most of all, he knowledgeable about his country. I wonder what he got in his history exam.... Hmmm...

Our first place of visit was the Blue Mosque. From outside, it just look like a normal mosque, but by the time we walk in there, it is so huge!!! And the building is made by marble. Mostly whole building. But why do they call it a Blue Mosque? That's because their interior carving and decorations are maded by blue marble which only Turkey has it and not anywhere in the world.

Next, we went to check into our hotel. And the name of the hotel is Cartoon Hotel! Yeah! You saw it right. The whole hotel is filled with cartoon character's decorations and the carving on the walls too are the cartoon characters. The staff of the hotel, they dress up ................ normally of course with shirt and tie. LOL. I bet you were expecting them to dress up in cartoon characters eh? LOL. Next we were brought to a street which has alot of shops and there was alot of people on the street. Tried on of their bread which looks like pretzels but they are not. It's hard like a stone. LOL. Then we tried the Turkish ice-cream. And it taste kind of different from the one in KL but it's nice. And the price for the ice-cream, it's 5 YTL (Yari Turkish Lira means New Turkey Lira). It's some how about RM 17 for that 2 scoops of ice-cream. Killing eh? I could get it for RM4.50 in KL. Anyway, it's once in a lifetime kindda thing, so what the hell.

Oppsss.. time up and we have to head back to hotel for our dinner. Took the tour bus and we went to a restaurant. It was a very superb restaurant, (minus the food) because we had a great time watching the shows there. Belly dance! Yeah! Superb Turkish girls..... :p I was so impresed by their dance and I practically almost recorded the whole show with my video cam and left not much of tape for the rest of the trip. LOL. After the dinner and everyone seems impressed with the show (besides the food) and we head back to hotel for our rest.