Photos: Riverside Timber Mansion, Under Bridge Architecture, Contemporary and Historical Buildings along Bosphorus, Riverside Luxury Mansions, Riverside shelters for the Poor.
'If the city speaks of defeat, destruction, deprivation, melancholy, and poverty, the Bosphorus sings of life, pleasure, and happiness.' Orhan Pamuk
SH and I bought some stamps at Istanbul main post office. Then we headed down to the ferry dock at Eminonu for the 10:30 cruise up the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea, for the village of Anadolu Kavagi. It was a pleasant boat trip through the city. Our boat sailed under several large bridges, passed by a number of luxury riverside communities, as well as poor neighborhoods. The boat stopped by a number of ferry docks in the city. The countryside and fishing villages gradually took over.
The scenery of the Bosphorus reminds me of the scenes in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant. Especially the last scene when the protagonist sits by the Bosphorus along and watches the ships go by. During the boat trip, we didn't have the chance to contemplate the distant water traffic and indulged in solitude. We did manage to witness how busy the Bosphorus is, including some really large ships.
'To be traveling through the middle of a city as great, historic, and forlorn as Istanbul, and yet to feel the freedom of the open sea - that is the thrill of a trip along the Bosphorus. Pushed along by its strong currents, invigorated by the sea air that bears no trace of the dirt, smoke, and noise of the crowded city that surrounds it, the traveler begins to feel that, in spite of everything, this is still a place in which he can enjoy solitude and find freedom.' Orhan Pamuk
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