Our Tour Guides
We match each traveler with the perfect professional tour guide based on their interests, style, language, and even their mood.
We match each traveler with the perfect professional tour guide based on their interests, style, language, and even their mood.
Explore Gülhane Park, Istanbul’s poetic green space where Ottoman history, tulips, and timeless literature come together.
Meet Fethi Karataş, the mind behind The Other Tour—redefining travel across Turkey with meaning, intellect, and curiosity.
Shop handmade Iznik ceramics in Sultanahmet and join authentic workshops at TESTI Quartz—a living legacy of Ottoman artistry.
Explore Istanbul from Galataport with private, cultural shore excursions—historic sites, local life, and flexible itineraries.
Discover stroller-friendly tours, parks, and transport in Istanbul — plus gear rental and full support for families with babies.
Wheelchair rental and accessible tours in Istanbul — delivered to your hotel, guided with care, and designed for immersive travel.
Discover the history and artistry of İznik tiles, Ottoman masterpieces celebrated for their intricate designs and vibrant colors.
Explore İznik, the ancient city of Nicaea, known for its Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman heritage, and stunning İznik tiles.
Embark on a 12-Day Turkey Tour: explore Istanbul’s historic wonders, Cappadocia’s fairy chimneys, Ephesus’s ruins, and Pamukkale’s terraces.
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.