Country guide · TR
5 destinos y fiestas · 4 normas y tabúes
Before you go
Illegal; can bring a fine and 5 to 12 years in prison.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Turkey travel advice
Not carrying photo ID is illegal; checks are common in Istanbul and elsewhere.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Turkey travel advice
It offends people who are fasting.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Turkey travel advice
It offends local people; inappropriate dress is more likely to cause offence during Ramadan.
Verificado el 19 oct 2026Fuente: GOV.UK: Turkey travel advice
Places & local life
Unfiltered coffee — and when you finish, the grounds in the cup can 'tell your fortune'.
The two-storey façade of the Library of Celsus and a great theatre for 25,000 bear witness to the prosperity of Rome's eastern provinces.
Snow-white travertine terraces cascading down the hill, with the Roman spa city of Hierapolis on top.
At dawn hundreds of balloons rise over valleys of 'fairy chimneys', above cave churches carved by Byzantine monks.
Religious layers of a capital that ruled empires for 1,600 years — a Byzantine church, an Ottoman mosque and a bazaar open since 1461 in one nei…
