Baghdad Avenue: The Queen of Istanbul’s Asian Side
Experience Bağdat Avenue – Istanbul's iconic luxury boulevard! Insider guide to upscale shopping, fine dining in Suadiye to Bostancı
Experience Bağdat Avenue – Istanbul's iconic luxury boulevard! Insider guide to upscale shopping, fine dining in Suadiye to Bostancı
Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ rights and visibility in Turkey have become increasingly fragile, particularly following the political shift after ...
Discover İzmir’s coastal towns and ancient sites — from sandy beaches and wine routes to historic ruins, charming villages, and ...
Licensed Istanbul guide Burak Plakay turns history into conversation. Fluent, intuitive & unforgettable—this is guiding at its best.
Explore Istanbul’s hidden layers with Duygu Sınırtaş—an expert archaeologist-guide fluent in English, Korean, and Japanese.
Discover the city's rich history, visit cat-friendly neighborhoods, and interact with Istanbul’s famous street cats on the Istanbul Cat Tour!
Discover Sufism's mystical journey in Turkey, from Seljuk-era Konya to Ottoman Sufi architecture. Explore timeless spiritual heritage.
Discover lost languages in Istanbul: Karayim, Ladino, Armenian & Greek. A walking tour with stories, songs & hidden scripts.
This 4-hour boat party on the Bosphorus is designed for exactly that — a Saturday night escape into music, movement, ...
If you’re heading to Cappadocia with The Other Tour, get ready to meet our star guide, Said Balcı—an extraordinary jack-of-all-trades.
The Other Tour offers alternative, human-centered cultural experiences and custom private travel across Istanbul and the rest of Turkey, built around local daily life, food, and neighborhood storytelling rather than standard landmark sightseeing.
What we specialize in, above all, is matching each client with the right professional guide for wherever they're headed — though if we're being honest, our roster is still concentrated mostly in Istanbul. As of July 2026, that roster stands at fifty guides, each one personally vetted rather than pulled from a directory.
Most of what we arrange are daily and multi-day private tours, guided primarily in English, with guides available in other languages on request. Our guides are licensed professionals — historians, archaeologists, and storytellers — who aim for honest conversations about contemporary culture and local heritage rather than a script.
The Other Tour is an immersive way to experience Istanbul and the rest of Turkey, led by licensed local guides who take you beyond the tourist spots into the lived culture and quiet corners of Cappadocia, Antalya, Ephesus, Bodrum, and the Mediterranean. We also build personalized travel planning, private tours, and custom itineraries — crafted around what you’re actually curious about, in any region of the country.