scammed at the blue mosque | first days in istanbul

#istanbul #travel
Merhaba from Istanbul! We’re writing this from our tiny rental apartment on the backstreets of Taksim. It’s 5pm, and the last rays of sun are shining through the line-drying clothes hanging above, down to the group of children playing football in the street.

Istanbul has been on our bucket list for as long as we can remember, and (scams aside) it has surpassed our expectations. We hope you enjoy this first silly vlog from Turkiye - where we get shown around Sultanahmet by an enthusiastic local scammer, pay waaay too much for a box of turkish delights, learn about Islam from a volunteer at the Blue Mosque, and yap while eating tavuklu pilav (chicken rice) - an Istanbul street food staple.

We’ll be back next week with our second Istanbul vlog (think vintage shops, bomb food, and a side quest to the asian side of Istanbul!) PLEASE SUBSCRIBE + share with your friends to support us!

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see y’all next week

[rheaandnick]

tbh I have been snacking on these Turkish delights all week and they aren’t half bad 😂

[_buseyyilmaz]

As a Turk, I am very sorry. The man who forced you to buy Turkish delight, unfortunately, scammed you—both in terms of price and taste. What you ate was not real Turkish delight. I wish you could try better Turkish delight and baklava. But you are very sweet, and as someone from Istanbul, I really enjoyed watching your vlog.

[bmirem]

Hello, as a Turkish so sorry to hear you got scammed. These people exists, sorry. About the bagel (simit) if you buy it from a coster it will be dry and tasteless and probably made two days ago. If you buy a bagel from a good bakery, bagel will be so delicious and so satisfying to eat for breakfast. I recommend you to buy it early hours in a day and from a bakery.

[michaelross]

I’m in Istanbul right now … I was so excited to see your honest reviews, cost and scams … You hit everything on the nail … You earned another subscriber .. thank you

[selina.]

I have been watching your vlogs since I am also from İstanbul and missing my city (since I am also away) and was enjoying your vlogs but omg I got so pissed about the guy, really sorry that you experienced this! Can’t believe these people still exist, it is really annoying! Hope you enjoyed rest of your time tho:)

[fhsllhfgobh]

This was such a cute video :') It was really fun to watch from the first second of the video till the end. It is such a cool vibe to see my city from your eyes, I wish you had a better experience with Turkish delights but I think you had fun tho ♡

[kcca]

DAMN! they had no idea if it's worth $80. you guys need a wise travel friend maybe a turkish or someone know how wild turkey is LOL

[armantemur]

If you see a random person on the street in a foreign country being overly friendly to you out of the blue, you can probably guess that they are a scammer. For example, the taxi driver who scammed me in Georgia was the friendliest person I saw in the country during the whole vacation.

[ngnf]

God damn this is such a good video man, I love you both.

[quasimodo]

baklava is actually from the east of Turkey its originally from Gaziantep and it has various types.. People mostly like the Gaziantep Baklava (the original one with pistachios but a little bit more expensive) but also Cold Baklava is now becoming popular and i think its way better than the original one, it has milk and chocolate in it rather than sherbet

[barbarasestak]

Didn't you ask for the price before buying? 🤭

[shynew.]

you can def pay a tourist tax in Istanbul, v common…the goods are usually good but that’s still way overpriced. Never believe a “discount” lol

[meghanmack]

I am so sorry you were scammed into buying $80 worth of Turkish delight lmao but other than that I love this for you guys!!! 🇹🇷❤

[xanxakir]

The sweetest form of being scammed ngl

[shazadhussain]

Bro, I’m not even Türkish and I paid around £15 for the amount you got in high quality. I could’ve got the lower quality stuff even cheaper… I didn’t even try that hard to bargain.

[beingold]

I wish this video go viral and those guys will penalize what they did or at least they can find a real job rather than scamming people!

[mkalaft]

Very sorry you got scammed. At least you got them on video. Honestly i am pretty sure they were not Turkish !

[adamhamid]

This should be $15-20 at most honestly speaking been twice and never paid more than that even if it’s a little more then a kilo

[ibo]

you guys should try donout big difrence and try some cake like birthday cake huge ice cream huge difrence on the street try some chesnut they sell very much every where and musle you like it stuff muslle they dont make that at us

[hellefarbe]

I would say from my experience around 20$ or less would be acceptable, I would even say 20$ is on the expensive side, just an advise for future deals, ( always taste first 👍) they shouldn't say no, if they say no go try another place