The El Camino Travel Guide to Istanbul, Turkey

North, south, east, and west have one thing in common—they all start in Istanbul, the center of the world. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus Strait, with the confluence of the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean to the south, Asia to the east, and Europe to the west. In the words of our travel expert, Eric Monkaba: “You can feel it. You’re in two places at once. It’s indescribable.”