Viki's Escape Routes

  Hello everyone! 😊 Last time when I was in Türkiye, I escaped Sapanca for a weekend and found myself in a place surrounded by forest, streams and mountains. If lately you've been feeling tired from traffic, notifications, work stress or simply people, I think you'll enjoy reading this one. The company is called Vadi Camping, located in Çatalkaya Valley in Sapanca. I had been seeing their events on Instagram for a while and finally decided to join one called "Derenin Sesleri." The program included yoga, a nature walk, meditation, a fire show and if you are lucky a DJ performance. To be honest, I was mostly curious about spending a day in nature rather than the activities themselves 😅 After arriving in the valley, the first thing I noticed was the sound. Not music, not traffic, not construction. Just birds, water and trees moving in the wind. It sounds simple but after city life, you realize how rare silence actually is. Nature Love The group slowly gathered ...

  I love traveling. Whenever I visit a new city, I spend hours searching for itineraries, watching YouTube videos, reading blogs, and nowadays, even asking AI to help me plan my trip. But I've noticed something interesting. Most travel guides tell you where to go. Very few tell you what you actually need to know. As someone born and raised in Türkiye, and after spending years around foreign visitors, I've seen the same questions appear again and again: "Do I really need cash?" "How do I get from Europe to Asia?" "Is the airport exchange rate a scam?" "Where do locals actually eat?" These are the details that can make the difference between a stressful trip and an unforgettable one. Istanbul Is Not Just One City One of the biggest surprises for first-time visitors is how enormous Istanbul really is. Many people arrive expecting to walk everywhere. Then they realize they are visiting a city spread across two cont...

Let me tell you about last year ! I wanted to soak up some warm weather on these chilly cold days, so this year I went to the Algarve - Albufeira in the south of Portugal, it was late June. Believe it or not, it was the off-peak season, when I went back in September it was actually more expensive. At the end of June, the south is really scorching hot. After a 2.5 hour bus ride, the owner of the airbnb where I was going to stay showed hospitality and picked me up by car and then I settled in. Of course, as usual, I was alone on this vacation, and one of the reasons why I blogged about this southern vacation is to tell you that I was able to have a solo vacation without any problems. If you try to go south from Istanbul to Fethiye, which is my favorite spot, it would take 9 hours by car. My new favorite, Albufeira, took 2.5 hours by bus 😊 To be honest, I didn't go for sightseeing much. My goal was all about fun, sun, sand and sea. I had come on vacation to remove the dead soi...

One Saturday I left the house completely without plans, took the train and went to the centre. After going to the ferry pier from there, I asked the ticket office if the cart I had was valid here. Since my card was monthly, I could use everything in Lisbon, bus, metro, train, ship, the monthly price for now was 40 euros. The attendant asked me where I were going, I told him it was completely spontaneous and he told me to take the ferry to   "Cacilhas". The ferry is like our Istanbul island catamarans, 2 storeys. I immediately went inside with emotions and sat on the top floor. Of course, there was no Istanbul sea pleasure, but it was okay.   Almada is a city on the south bank of the Tagus River in Portugal, on the opposite side of the river from Lisbon, and it is also a municipality. The two cities are connected by the "25 de Abril" bridge, which is very similar in design to the Golden gate bridge in San Francisco. Following the bridge and the river, in 10 minut...

  Hello everyone from the old Roman settlement at the foot of a high mountains! A   few of us from the company got together and travelled by morning bus to Óbidos, an hour away from Lisbon. We decided to go for the day as it had the famous "Vila de Natal Harry Potter" theme that day and the town was very lively. When you enter the city, you see that most of it remains a well-preserved example of medieval architecture; the streets, squares, ramparts and castle are a popular tourist destination. The entrance is a fortress gate and inside you are first greeted by the "Porta da Vila" made of Portuguese ceramics "Azulejos".   Because it was the weekend and the Harry Potter concept, the city - or rather the town - was really crowded. Here is my site that I sell some photos that I took for your home decoration :  Viki Abroad Azulejos Before we started wandering on the streets of "Direita", we drank "ginjinha" in Portuguese chocolate cups a...