Other Top Sights Around Istanbul:
1. Turkish Baths: One of the most authentic experiences you can get in Istanbul is visiting a Turkish bath house.  The therapeutic hot springs led to the Greeks and Romans settling the area which adds to the visit.

While there your waist down must be covered and you aren’t allowed to be completely naked, they provide traditional cotton and silk bath wraps called Peştamel, sandals are also provided.  may wear  a bikini, or swimwear  if you will feel more comfortable

Pick services, change in changing room private locker, then lock it.

Second room called the Sıcaklık (hot room) has göbek taşı” (central heated marble platform) where you seat or lay opening you pores for the bath.  Relaxing here is great and glass portals send beams of colored light down from the dome.  Then after relaxing and sweating you move to the sides of the room to a basins cubby to wash with beautiful smelling Çemberlitaş Hamamı soaps and water poured from copper pots.  Instead of washing yourself you can instead get a soap scrub and massage from an attend for an extra fee which lasts 15-30 minutes. no nudity waist down.

Sarnic Cistern – behind Aya Sophia by the Baths is from the 400s and converted into a restaurant.  on Sogukçesme Sok against the palace walls

Yeralti Camii – underground mosque in New Town near the Baths

Sarabi Wine Bar – upper New Town inside an aqueduct from the 1800s

Drink lots of water before and after as the steam will dehydrate you