Bosporus Cruise

Two Continents and Black Sea Tours

We cruised to the Asian part of Istanbul crossing the Intercontinental Bosphorus Bridge to visit Camlica Hill the highest point where we overlooked Istanbul and Black Sea

Bosphorus Bridge was completed on 30 October 1973, one day after the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, and opened by President Fahri Korutürk and Prime Minister Naim Talu. The cost of the bridge amounted to USD 200 million.

At the time the bridge was opened, much was made of its being the first bridge between Europe and Asia since the pontoon bridge of Xerxes in 480 BCE. That bridge, however, spanned the Hellespont (Dardanelles), some distance away from the Bosphorus.