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Misir Carsisi, the Egyptian (Spice) Bazaar built at the time of the New Mosque.  For centuries people came here to consult the pharmacists who acted as doctors prescribing and making up potions to cure all ills.   A famous medication for hemorrhoids involved boiling gunpowder with lemon and consuming on an empty stomach.  It fell out of favour when the stores supplying it kept blowing up.
To add spice of a different kind!

Now there are only 9 stores selling spices in the bazaar. The others sell  dried fruit, nuts, meat and a wide variety of goods.
Turkish BBQ at the ferry docks on the Golden Horn.  
Take the Turkish Maritime Lines boat on a cruise  up the Bosphorus. As well as the busy river traffic there are many mosques to see, some forts and these wonderful 19th century villas know as Yalis.  You can take the round trip, having lunch in Andolu Kavaga, before returning, We needed to be back early so caught the bus to Uskudar (formerly Scutari) and a ferry back across to Besiktas.
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