After breakfast we headed for the Turkish and Islamic Art Museum that is
across the street from the Blue Mosque. Here, we examined examples of
Kilim (woven, not knotted rugs), Holbein (painted carpets) and knotted carpets,
some in the setting of a Yurt (a country house with a tented roof made of goat
hair). Then we visited the Basilica
Cistern. We then had lunch in a
local restaurant, near the museum and then drove to the 400 year old Town Walls
(~ 4 miles long along the
