Absolutely incredible, easily my favourite buildin...

Absolutely incredible, easily my favourite building in the world. Worth coming to Istanbul just to see this.

Picked up a guided tour from the licenced chaps that were outside the gates touting for customers. I'm sure this varies massively but he was pretty knowledgeable and worth it to get some useful titbits. Tour was a bit of the brisk side, but then these guys are looking to get throughput.

Otherwise there's tons of information and Audio guides available (although you pay for these separately. Decent food and drinks stalls in the complex as well.

Currently there's a lot of scaffolding up inside which sounds like it will be there for a fair while. Doesn't make it any less impressive.