Customize your tour with the renowned and highly recommended tour guide in Istanbul.

Hi, I am Ayse Karakoc Weber
Professional, private tour guide in Istanbul.
I graduated from Kocaeli University, Tourism Guideness Department and have been working for 6 years. During my university years, I travelled 36 days around Turkey with professional tourist guides and comprehensively learnt all the cities` history including the border cities which are at the eastern part of Turkey. After my travel, I started working in a travel agency as a trainee to learn the job and experience about guiding.
Before I graduated from Kocaeli University, Tourism Guideness Department, I joined the English KPDS exam which was compulsory to pass to receive a guiding licence from the Ministry of Tourism.
As being a tourist guide in Istanbul, I can definitely say that is an impressive city where you can breathe history all the time. Furthermore, I am working with Cruise Ships in summer, as well as for Volleyball organisations like European Championships as a foreign teams tourist guide in Istanbul. Recently I am into health tourism, where I accompany my guests who come to Istanbul for hair transplantation or eye laser surgery.
In the last six years, I have guided more than 2500 tourists and hope to show my hometown to many more.
Since 2009 I am happily married to my German husband. This is a great chance for me to experience a multi-cultural life that I can understand the feelings of my foreign guests better and improve my guiding service as a tourist guide.
So Let’s discover Istanbul together 🙂
WELCOME TO AMAZING ISTANBUL, one of the world’s most exotic, romantic, and intoxicating cities – and a travel-shopper’s paradise. Straddling both Europe and Asia at the fabled Bosphorus Straits, which link the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and eventually into the Mediterranean Sea, this beautiful, energetic, and throbbing city over 14 million people hosts nearly 10 million visitors each year who often begin and end their Turkey adventure in this fascinating place. It is a city that begs to be discovered on foot or by boat, tram, subway, or car. Through many narrow winding streets, colorful bazaars, grand mosques, spiraling minarets, and well preserved palaces, museums to fine shops, restaurants, bars, and hotels, Istanbul has it all- a virtual gold mine of delights that can easily occupy a busy week of shopping, dining, sightseeing, cruising and entertainment. The city constantly unfolds with a never-ending stream of surprises. Many visitors to this city have only one complaint –they did not plan enough to fully enjoy Istanbul’s many treasures and pleasures. Well, you can always come back! And many soon do.
Old City
This is Istanbul’s prime tourist destination, the historic district of Sultanahmet. It includes the Grand Bazaar, Egyptian Bazaar, Arasta Bazaar, mosques, places, churches, museums and adjacent streets jam-packed with shops offering a dazzling array of carpets, jewelry, leather goods, copperware, and handicrafts. You can easily spend 3 days shopping and sightseeing in this richly rewarding area of fascinating sights, sounds, people, and products.
New City
This is the European section of Istanbul with its many trendy shops, restaurants, cafes, hotels, bars, discos, and nightclubs. Much of this area’s shopping, dining, and entertainment activities are centered along Istiklal Street in Beyoglu. Here you will find numerous antique shops, bookstores, and music shops along with trendy boutiques, and the main Vakko department store. A charming tram runs up and down this main pedestrian walkway to make covering the area especially convenient, and pleasant. Functioning as a central business district, this whole area is full of wonderful surprises as you explore its many meandering side streets. This section of the city is especially popular with the young people.
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