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Rick Steves Turkey is a collection of "Travel with Rick Steves" radio interviews featuring travel tips and lessons from Rick and the expert teachers who guide Rick Steves' tours around Turkey. Whether you're heading off on your own or taking a guided tour, Rick Steves Turkey will help you enjoy the richest and most meaningful travel experience possible. Audio tour content is excerpted from Rick Steves guidebooks. All rights reserved. You'll find related travel information for Turkey at http://www.ricksteves.com.
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United States
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Arts & Culture Podcasts
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Rick Steves Turkey is a collection of "Travel with Rick Steves" radio interviews featuring travel tips and lessons from Rick and the expert teachers who guide Rick Steves' tours around Turkey. Whether you're heading off on your own or taking a guided tour, Rick Steves Turkey will help you enjoy the richest and most meaningful travel experience possible. Audio tour content is excerpted from Rick Steves guidebooks. All rights reserved. You'll find related travel information for Turkey at http://www.ricksteves.com.
Language:
English
Episodes
Good-bye Audio Europe, hello "Travel with Rick Steves"
11/1/2018
This marks the end of Rick's Audio Europe podcast. But the good news is there are two easy ways you can keep getting this content. The first way is to subscribe to the free, weekly “Travel with Rick Steves” radio show podcast on iTunes. It brings you all the great interviews you’ve come to love, in a longer format. Or, you can download the free “Rick Steves Audio Europe” app, which includes all of Rick's radio interviews — plus dozens of walking tours through Europe’s most interesting...
Duration:00:00:24
Intro from Rick Steves
3/1/2017
Rick provides a brief introduction to his Turkey playlist, a collection of audio files designed to help you plan and enjoy your best possible trip, plus audio tours of Turkey's historic sites.
Duration:00:01:24
Ancient Ephesus Audio Tour
3/1/2017
One of the most important cities of the Roman Empire, Ephesus is among the world’s best ancient sites. We'll see stores where the ancients shopped, baths where they schmoozed, and a theater where St. Paul confronted the pagans. Allow about 90 minutes for this walk. Don't forget to download the PDF companion map at http://www.ricksteves.com/audiotours.
Duration:00:45:03
Ephesus
10/1/2016
Friends from Turkey explain what the magnificent ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus reveal about Greco-Roman life.
Duration:00:18:14
Cheap Eats in Istanbul
4/9/2016
A tour guide gives us tips on finding inexpensive edibles in her home town of Istanbul, where some of the tastiest treats are sold right on the street.
Duration:00:11:41
Cruising the Bosphorus
12/4/2014
Turkish guide Yaren Turkoglu explains why Turks love the busy shipping canal separating the European side of Istanbul from Asia.
Duration:00:11:43
Village Turkey
7/31/2014
Turkish tour guide Lale Surmen Aran explains how to make friends and enjoy the local culture in the small villages of Turkey.
Duration:00:17:06
Democracy in Turkey
7/31/2014
A tour guide from Turkey describes what prompted her to join the protests on the streets of Istanbul, as thousands of her fellow citizens demonstrated against the policies of their government's ruling party.
Duration:00:18:22
Turkey's Black Sea Coast
4/11/2013
A Turkish tour guide takes us on a tour of Turkey's less-touristed coast.
Duration:00:12:01
Ottoman Turkey
4/11/2013
Rick provides a brief introduction to his Turkey playlist, a collection of audio files designed to help you plan and enjoy your best possible trip.
Duration:00:17:38
Aegean Turkey
9/17/2012
Turkish tour guides Taylan Tashbashi and Ayshegul Unlu join Rick to offer a taste of what makes the west coast of Turkey such a popular destination, where the remains of classical cultures meet seaside fun on the Aegean.
Duration:00:18:32
Armenians, Kurds, and the EU
9/17/2012
Two politically-savvy Turks explain the tricky political issues facing their country, including how to deal with deep-rooted ethnic conflicts and how to prepare for a formal relationship with the European Union.
Duration:00:28:03
Ataturk and Modern Turkey
9/17/2012
Turkish tour guide Mehlika Seval explains to Rick why Turks revere Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey's modern, secular republic.
Duration:00:07:01
Beyond Turkey: Armenia
9/17/2012
Rick's guest is Matthew Karanian, co-author of a guidebook to Armenia. Visitors can experience eco-tourism in its untouched countryside and connect with a culture that has persisted for 3,000 years, despite many adversities.
Duration:00:35:30
Cappadoccia
9/17/2012
Two friends from Turkey describe the other-worldly landscapes and underground cities of Cappadocia.
Duration:00:16:47
Eastern Turkey
9/17/2012
Turkish tour guide Mehlika Seval tells us why she loves the traditional eastern half of her country, where deeply-rooted cultures carry on with little interruption from tourism.
Duration:00:18:37
Eastern Turkey II
9/17/2012
Turkish tour guides Tankut Aran and Lale Surmen Aran take Rick to the eastern reaches of their country, where few tourists venture.
Duration:00:17:46
Footsteps of St. Paul
9/17/2012
Rick chats with tour guide Tankut Aran and documentary filmmaker Tim Frakes about the journeys of the Apostle Paul, who traveled 13,000 miles to spread Christianity around the Roman Empire.
Duration:00:20:52
Islam in Turkey: Rumi
9/17/2012
Rick talks with Turkish tour guide Mehlika Seval about the enduring appeal of Rumi, an Islamic mystic and poet born 800 years ago.
Duration:00:18:21
Istanbul Backstreets
9/17/2012
Tankut Aran and Lale Surmen Aran, tour operators based in Istanbul, suggest ways to get beyond the city's tourist hot-spots by delving into the back streets — from overlooked corners of the Grand Bazaar to the traffic-free islands just off the coast.
Duration:00:31:45