rooms, topkapi harem

harem interior-topkapi palace-istanbul-suburbanstorytelling, originally uploaded by suburbanstorytelling.

We had to get up at eight on a rainy sunday morning, accidentaly took the bus to the Topkapi Gate instead of the Topkapi Palace, and got soaked on the way, but the result was worth it: we were the only people at the Harem, walking through eerily empty rooms that resounded the cold, sad lives of their former inhabitants...