Planning an independent trip to Istanbul? Then you should download the Ever.Travel audio guide – a handy mobile guide created by people who know and love this city. Listen to the audio track at the top of this page – it is a short excerpt from one of six tours that you can download, listen to, and follow without any time limits.

It is very simple: download the Istanbul audio guide for iPhone or Android and head out for a walk! We will tell you when to turn right, when to walk a little farther, and when it is worth looking up. But the best thing about our audio guides is not the navigation so much as the fascinating stories about Istanbul's most important landmarks!

We have prepared routes covering the city's most popular sights: Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Galata Tower... If you are visiting for the first time, our Istanbul audio guide in English will be an excellent companion, telling you dozens of fascinating stories and facts about nearly every place worth visiting.

Compared with traditional paper guidebooks and organized group tours, a mobile guide has plenty of advantages! It weighs nothing, takes up no extra room in your bag, costs next to nothing, and you can listen to it at any time of day, pausing the narration as often as you like. Would you get that kind of freedom in a group of 40 people? Travel independently! Use Ever.Travel audio guides and be sure that you will not miss anything interesting while learning countless curious facts, stories, and legends about the places you visit!

The grandeur of mosques and the bustle of eastern bazaars, the smell of the sea and the taste of Turkish sweets, a relaxing hammam and ferry rides – you fall in love with Istanbul instantly and forever! From this first overview tour you will learn about the city's history, layout, customs, and traditions. Want to plan your own walking routes around Istanbul? Easy! Turn on the audio guide – we will show you the way!

Narrated by: Natalya Shakuro

Duration – 25 minutes

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Nowhere else in the world will you see a place that began as a pagan temple, was transformed into the world's greatest Orthodox cathedral, then became a mosque, later a museum, and eventually entered the UNESCO World Heritage list. Find the audio guide to Hagia Sophia in the Ever.Travel mobile guide!

We will begin this tour with the amazing centuries-long history of the church. Then we will step inside and look at the interior first on the ground floor, then climb to the upper galleries, where we will see Hagia Sophia's world-famous mosaics.

Narrated by: Natalya Shakuro

Duration – 35 minutes

Audio guide price: 100 piasters (about $1)

This tour includes:

Why did the Serpent Column lose its snakes? Where can you find Medusa? What curse did Sultan Ahmed receive for building the Blue Mosque? Once you arrive in Istanbul, download this audio guide – we will tell you all about it!

Our route runs from the Basilica Cistern to Sultanahmet Square, where we will see Roxelana's Baths and the famous Blue Mosque. Then we will stop by the horse market and the Mosaic Museum and finish this walk at the Hippodrome.

Narrated by: Natalya Shakuro

Duration – 30 minutes

Audio guide price: 100 piasters (about $1)

This tour includes:

We invite you on a tour of the luxurious Topkapi Palace complex. During the walk we will tell you about every part of the sultan's residence, point out what deserves special attention, see one of Constantinople's oldest churches – Hagia Irene, visit the Archaeological Museum, and end the route with a rest in Gülhane Park.

Good to know: the Ever.Travel audio guide costs less than Topkapi Palace's official audio guide ;)

Narrated by: Natalya Shakuro

Duration – 30 minutes

Audio guide price: 100 piasters (about $1)

This tour includes:

This walk takes you through the area where Istanbul's most famous markets are located – the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar. On the way from one market to the other we will show you many other city sights as well: the unique Calligraphy Museum, the splendid building of Istanbul University, the Beyazıt and Süleymaniye mosques, and the old craft courtyard Valide Han, which is little known to tourists. You will find all of this in the Ever.Travel mobile guide.

Narrated by: Natalya Shakuro

Duration – 32 minutes

Audio guide price: 100 piasters (about $1)

This tour includes:

This route begins with a walk across the famous Galata Bridge, which will take us over the Golden Horn from the southern bank to the northern one – into Beyoğlu. There we will show you its most popular sights: the Galata Tower, with its splendid view over the city; İstiklal Street, probably the liveliest street in all of Istanbul; and Taksim Square, which became famous around the world for the anti-government protests held there. Less famous – and therefore even more interesting – places are waiting for us too. Ready to set off? Download the audio guide in the Ever.Travel mobile app!

Narrated by: Natalya Shakuro

Duration – 62 minutes

Audio guide price: 200 piasters (about $2)

This tour includes:

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