SPICE BAZAAR

The Spice Bazaar sells a lot more than spices, but I was of course focused on the intricate displays of exotic foods. Pyramids of colorful spices, powdered turkish delights, dreid fruits and delicious desserts lined the stalls. 

Delicious istanbul writes, "It is mind-boggling to think that life and trade have been bustling under the high domed roof of the Istanbul Spice Market for the past 350 years. A few centuries ago it was a marketplace for goods brought from Egypt (hence the other name of the market – Egyptian Bazaar) that included spices, medicinal herbs, aromatic incenses, fragrant essential oils and such. With the possibly the same range that dragged merchants of the Western world to buy goods imported from the East back then it still attracts city visitors looking for Iranian saffron, Indian curry, Chinese flower tea, Turkish delight, Russian caviar. Foreigners coming to buy foreign goods – that’s what the Istanbul Spice Market has always been about."