Bosphorus cruise

Bosphorus Cruise: Kinds, Shores, Bridges, Times, Winter

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Aerial view of a white domed mosque with two slender minarets on the shore of a turquoise strait, with a white passenger ferry and sailboats on the water and a long suspension bridge across the background.

A Bosphorus cruise takes from 1 hour 15 minutes to 3 hours, and it sails a 31-kilometre strait that holds three bridges and two Ottoman fortresses. Listings sell it as a public ferry, a shared tour boat, a small-group yacht or a private yacht, in day, sunset and night sailings. The sections below follow the … Read more