From Istambul with Love

The City of Istambul provide unforgettable experiences. Topkapi Palace is the most fun. Here there is a residual collection of the Prophet Muhammad.

While still in the airport environment Istambul Ataturk airport, feeling like I was in Indonesia. Exit the airport, the country feels the bran barantah. How does not, along the road looks very different time of the former old-fashioned building, whether it is residual Byzantium, when Istambul still called Constantinople, and the Kingdom of Ottoman heritage, the kingdom of Islam, which is not only the Asian, especially Arab peninsula to North Africa, but the European mainland.

Ancient fortresses integrates with the dome-dome mosque. Scenery that is found along the way at the top of the Londra Asealti about 45 minutes from the airport towards the city center (new) Istambul. We stayed in a small hotel, Hotel Square, at the Istiqlal Street, where many people pass thatch, including at the base of the winter when the temperature reached 1 degree Celsius. However, it is not that the weather is less friendly, heavy rain accompanied by winds of winter sharp, puncture the skin of each diterpanya.

Fortunately, when we visited the various tourism objects, the condition was not found. Rain is coming down in the afternoon and evening. Tourism object in Istambul very much. Among them, Sulaiman Mosque, Kariye Museum, Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque (Blue Mosque), Kapali Carsi (Traditional Market that has been aged hundreds of years), The Pera Place, and Topkapi Palace. Of course still very much that can be described one by one.

Each has its own specialty. Hagia Sophia, for example a church that was built in the era of Byzantium, in the year 404 when Istambul called Constantinople, but then at the time of the kingdom of Islam, the Kingdom of Ottoman year 1453 turned into a mosque. Original form and the changes that are still visible today.

Adjacent to the Hagia Sophia Blue Mosque (Blue Mosque), which is very beautiful. Called the blue mosque, the only due to a variety of designs in the building is dominated by a beautiful blue color. I also had time to pray here. I prayed behind the wall of the men prayed. As many mosques in Turkey, where women are rarely found prayer. "Women usually pray at home," said Sultana, a student in Istambul that accompany us in this journey. Sultana, came from Solo, one of the 8 students in Turkey. He is fluent in Turkish.

From the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace to us. This place is indeed the one I want to visit in the city of Istambul this. From Hagia Sophia, the palace is indeed not too far. However, we need a ride disopiri sdr Sami, the Turkish people into the local Indonesian embassy staff in Ankara. Sami to bring the car to the drag, although the road narrow. In the particular, the road is made of stones neatly organized as conblo in Indonesia. Sometimes escalate and other times it menurun.Terus street light show with my James Bond 007 series, which is one of syutingnya in Istambul.

Easily, we entered the palace environment, which is the center of the Ottoman kingdom. Istananya own very beautiful. On a hill that is located between the Bosphorus, Golden Horn, and Sea of Marmara, the area 700,000 square meters. Despite Sultan Mehmet II began to rule in Istambul in 1453, this new Topkapi Palace, built in 1465-1470. For 400 years and is inhabited by Ottoman Sultan 24. "We are lucky to come in the winter!," Sultana said when we roll into. In the summer, incoming queue Palace can beratus-hundred meters.

We are lucky. Very much a palace told about this. The collection of different kinds, ranging various residual dynasty ceramics in China, the palace of equipment, both made of ceramic, brass, to the pure gold. In fact, clothing kings or the sultan also be a very valuable collection.

However, for me, nothing is more precious than the collections around the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Entering the room this collection has brought the magical feel. We immediately met someone who read the verses of holy Qur'an. During 407 years, from 1517 until the year 1924, 24 people memorize the Qur'an (hafiz) reading holy verses for 24 hours nonstop.

Which can be seen in this room, among others, sole of the Prophet Muhammad, a snippet of the beard of the Prophet, Prophet Muhammad SAW letter addressed to Mukavkis of Egypt (this letter was written on palm leaves, found in Egypt 1850), the stamp of the Prophet, and the whip sword of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, robes, and various equipment in the Ka'bah-the beginning. The equipment also many friends of the Prophet, whom the sword of the Prophet Companions 4, namely Abubakar, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. (Source: Okezone)