Now firmly part of the metropolis, Ortaköy's motley array of trendy cafes, restaurants, bars and clubs vie for business on the narrow strip of real estate between traffic-choked Muallim Naci Caddesi and the waterfront. ...
To get there I took a ferry from Kadiköy to Eminönü. Then I had to get onto a metro going the correct direction, and then get off and take a funicular up a hill. It isn't terribly complicated, but I wanted to do it once before I HAD to ...
It offers a 90-minute ride from the Eminonu ferry dock, at the foot of the Galata Bridge, Golden Horn side, up to Rumelihisari, the site of an Ottoman fortress at the narrowest part of the Bosporus, before heading back to Eminonu (9 ...
