Thursday, November 25, 2004

Getting around in Turkey

Option 1: Taxi
Taxis are everywhere and will happily take you everywhere. What does however make them more interesting is the fair. While you have the option to use the meter, but if your savvy to the rate to get from point A to B you haggle. This was a great experience. With the leadership of the beautiful Carina, a hard barginer with the cab drivers, we saved tens of millions on cabs rides.

Another note on the is cabs that when you are not using the meter the drivers try to get you where your going, fast. Imagine the comfort provide weaving through traffic with the engine redlined in the Turkish version of a Fiat. The best of which was provided by the cab driver who, after a lengthy haggle, wanted to prove to us that he could make it back to our hotel for 5 mil on the meter. The cab did not come to a stop for the entire ride home. After driving the wrong way down 2 one-way streets, and running three red lights, the worst of which involved passing the stopped cars on their left to make a right turn at a light, we were home. The meter: 5,200,000, we won.

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