Turkiye 2023: Hagia Sophia
Walking out of the Blue Mosque, we saw that the humongous line in front of Hagia Sophia was gone and the queue was quite short now. Just our luck! We don't need to wake up early tomorrow to visit it. The catch though we found out was that Hagia Sophia seems to be instituting crowd control because the line stayed put for over 30 minutes as we watched people after people walk out of the mosque. When we eventually got in, the place was crowded as well, but it looked like the mosque can hold more people. The effort to control the number of people inside is well and good, that despite the number of people inside at the same time, there was room to move. I just wish we had a guide to explain to us what we were looking at. Well, our guided tour has this tour as part of their optional tour program, which means there's extra fee to take this tour. And more often than not, these Optional Tours are overpriced. Anyway, I did not see a guided tour at the time of my visit. I wonder
