Up Close and Personal at the Istanbul Grand Bazaar
6 min readMay 29, 2013
Walking into the Istanbul Grand Bazaar on a crowded Saturday afternoon can give even the bravest of shoppers a meltdown.
With its nearly 5,000 shops, hundreds of thousands of visitors a day and come-hither merchants, even an expert shopper would be forgiven a moment’s hesitation at what is believed to be the world’s most visited attraction. (estimates are between 250,000–400,000 visitors a day!)
