Cook & Eat Day - Go to locals’ homes to cook and eat with them

Besiktas - This day will start you going to Authentic Turkish Breakfast Cooking with Local Friends experience. After the time at the host Aysu’s home, you will have 4 hours gap with an suggestion list from Aysu for you to wonder as a local. After that, you will join Private Turkish Cuisine Cooking Class with Local Moms experience. Here you will cook, learn and eat traditional Turkish cuisine dishes and eat with a local family.

Art Day - Go to locals’ homes to create Turkish and International Art with Them

Besiktas - You will go have a breakfast at a local home with local people. After that, you will head to the only Graffiti Painting experience in Istanbul. After creating a unique piece of your own with your own name tag, you will leave your mark at a wall of an Istanbul home. Then, you will have 4 hours free time, to do the things that Graffiti hosts suggested you. Then, you will head to Paint on the Water - Turkish Art Marbling experience. You will create multiple pieces here with different painting technics. After that, you will have dinner at one of the local homes.

Culture Day

Besiktas - You will be welcomed at a local home for the homemade breakfast. After that, you will head to the Traditional Wedding Dances Workshop with Locals experience where you will learn multiple Folk dances from Turkey. Then, you will discover the part of the town with the suggestions from the hosts of the experience. 4 hour later, you will head to Turkish Coffee Cooking and Tasting experience. Here, you will get to taste 4 different Turkish Coffee types. Then, you will head to a local home for the final dinner.

• Dinner
• Accommodation
• Breakfast
• Guide

• Gratuities

This is one of the most unique tours you can ever find in anywhere in the world. It’s more like an experience of being a local in a neighborhood of Istanbul for some days.

• If you have already been in Istanbul and did all the touristy stuff, you are reading the correct spot.

• Even if it’s your 1st time in Istanbul and if you are the kind of traveler who searches “Visit Istanbul like a local”, “Local things to do in Istanbul” on google, stop searching you found the right thing here.

Basically what happens is that, you will stay at an apartment, completely private for you. But, you will keep visiting nearby locals at their homes for culinary, art and cultural experiences (listed on days’ tour details). But the idea is that you visit the locals at their homes to form a local bond with them.

After visiting a group of friends, you will pretty much feel like you are a part of them and you will finish the school of being a local in Istanbul .

Come as a guest, leave as a friend.

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