Breakfast at Hilton Hotel

9 February

We safely arrived at Istanbul Öttögar and went straight to SultanAhmet.

Because we didnt search for any budget hotel earlier,

we decided to take a quick route back to Cordial Hotel where we stayed earlier when we were in Istanbul.

And this is the first time our walk-in registration didn't seem to go smoothly because the hotel was full.

We could only check in at 12pm and now its only around 7am.

At the same time,

We needed to report ourself at the MAS office in Istanbul.

The office from what we read to the address was really far from our hotel.

Regardlessly, we decided to walk.

but before that,

we took a Tram from Çamberlitas to the termınal statıon at Kabataş.

From there we walk.

It was tiring because we haven't eating anything after arrived in Istanbul.

But we really needed to find the MAS office.

After a tiring walk around the place passing a luxurious Hilton Hotel, Open Opera, and the place where stood Atatürk statues,

and also the Besiktas FC satdium,

"Besiktas Stadium"

(We also have seen the Galatassaray Stadium, but from inside our bus on our way to Bursa)

we found the address.

Surprisingly it wasn't a MAS office,

It was some other office.

Some of us were losing hope.

Some trying to be optimistic.

Some were pessimist.

Some trying to lift up again the hope.

Some trying to be cheerful.

Then we checked again the address.

Surprisingly again, they were 2 different address.

The one with Nizam's was different.

It was the address given by the embasy, Mr Shahruddin himself.

So, to shorten the story,

we took a whole half day just tring to search the office.

And we were shock to know that MAS office located INSIDE the Hilton.

wow.

Malaysia really got money.

and then blablabla.

we met Pn Zawiyah the Manager for the MAS at Istanbul

and issuing our ticket on 14 February.

She invites us for some nescafe and Milo with crackers.

Yeah that was our breakfast and lunch.

After bid farewell to her and her staff,

we head to Thaksim Square.

It was more or less like Tahrir square.

And we met the other group which escape from Egypt too.

aha, so we took some picture there.

Knowing our flight will be on Monday,

we went to see the Dolmahbaçe Palace.

The historical palace for the last 6 ottoman Sultan and the death bed of Mustafa Kemal.

The fee entrance was really cheap.

So we did went inside.

In front of the palace which was guarded by the army

After that,

we went back to Cordial Hotel.

The night, 7 of us went for a walk outside.

We have 2 things in mind.

Dinner and searching for other cheap budget hostel to stay for 5 days more.