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Two-for-one Special

by Mark Seal

With so much to do in the country, it makes sense that Turkey invented the steam bath, or the Turkish bath.
The great one is the Cagaloglu Baths, built in the 1700s. What's unique is that they've been doing it since the Middle Ages. They have massage, body scrub, the whole thing.

I loved your hellion-like character in The Constant Gardener. She was so adventurous! What would she do in Turkey?
She would look for injustice and try to put an end to it. There are victims of poverty and injustice everywhere. So she'd go looking for trouble.

I bet she'd find it there, right?
Oh, yeah. Of course.




MARK SEAL is an American Way contributing editor. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, and Time.





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she said ...
where rachel weisz indulges her vices in istanbul


lodging
the splendid hotel, buyukada, inexpensive,
011-90-216-382-6950
the yesil ev, expensive to very expensive,
011-90-212-517-67

dining
360 istanbul restaurant and bar,
moderate to expensive, 011-90-212-251-1042, www.360istanbul.com
galata evi, inexpensive to moderate,
011-90-212-245-1861, www.thegalatahouse.com
leb-i derya, expensive, 011-90-212-293-4989, www.lebiderya.com




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ISSUE: Nov 15, 2005
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