Getting Around in Istanbul

Travelling around in the city of Istanbul is a real adventure: the means of transport are innumerable. Taxi, Dolmus (shared private Taxi, also called "Minibus"), buses and trains, tram, subway train, ferry boats of all kind and age (to the Asian side and along the Bosporus). Buses are really cheap but even taxis, and especially minibuses offer reasonable prices.

A hint for taxis: you should insist on using the counter (taximeter). It will always be cheaper! Take care: they have two tariffs: gündüz (for day) and gece (for night). Of course night tarif is more expensive...

About the big city busses: You have to buy the tickets outside the bus at a kiosk. The driver does not sell tickets! In a dolmus or minibüs you just pay the driver, there are no tickets at all.

It is not very common to hitchhike; sometimes from that results a misunderstanding and people expect payment.

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