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Most people fly to
Turkey: check Cheap
Airfares & Airlines.
There are other ways to get to Turkey:
BUS
Several Turkish
bus companies,
including deluxe Varan Turizm,
run big, comfortable buses to and from
Europe weekly, but it's a long
trip,
and with airfares so
cheap these days, why not fly?
SHIP
Most ships calling at Turkish
ports are for cruises,
not simple passage (more
on cruise ships docking in
Turkey...), but modern car
ferries run from the Italian
ports of Venice, Ancona, Bari and Brindisi via
the Greek port of Patras to Çesme,
west of Izmir in
the warmer months (April or May through
October or November,
depending on the company). Your ferry
voyage becomes a mini-cruise, and you
needn't have a car to sail on one. Here
are dates, times, fares and ports.
There's also a service
between Odessa, Ukraine, and Istanbul,
and of course the ferries
from the Greek Aegean islands to Turkey.
TRAIN
The days of the fabled Orient
Express are long gone. Cheap
flights, modern buses and the Balkan
wars of the 1990s put an end to through
trains between Istanbul and Europe.
Still, there are s-lo-w daily trains
between Istanbul's Sirkeci
Station and Belgrade (Belgrat, 23
hours), Bucharest (Bükres, 20
hours) and Thessaloniki (Selanik, 15
hours), whence you can connect with
trains to Budapest (36
hours), Venice, Munich and Athens. More...
CAR
If you drive your own car to Turkey,
you'll need to buy Green
Card insurance
at the border from the Turkish
Touring and Automobile Association. More...
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Above, if
you fly,
you may get a breathtaking view
of Istanbul such
as this.
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