Sariyer, yellow place, is a charming fisherman village, the fishing
capital of the Bosphorus, with a busy harbour, a lively and colorful fish
market, and several excellent waterside fish restaurants. The buses
continue to Rumeli Kavagi or Kilyos, a resort on the Black Sea. For Telli
Baba shine and Altin Kum beach further along the Bosphorus.
The view along the Bosphorus, in both direction, as you climb into the
hills from Sariyer is spectacular.
The village of Buyukdere at the north end of a wide bay, here are the
summer embassies of Russia and Spain. Its Turkish name means Large Valley,
while one of its older Greek names is Kalos Agros, the Beautiful Meadow.
To the north of the village a row of houses overlooks the new road along
the Bosphorus, one of them a handsome late 19th Century yali which now
contains an ethnographic museum of the Sadberk Hanim Museum, Sadberk Hanim
was the wife of Vehbi Koc, a leading Turkish Industrialist. She collected
old silver, porcelain, jewellery, furniture and embroidery,
