hey everyone welcome to another traveling solo vlog yes it's me solo underneath the mask so right
now i'm in istanbul turkey and i want to teach you today how to take the public transportation
because the public transportation here is very convenient and the first thing you need to do
to ride the public transportation is to get a public transportation card and actually right
now it's 2021 there's new regulations on how to take the public transportation in istanbul
such as wearing a mask and a public transportation system and also getting an HES code which is a
hes code that you're supposed to have linked to your card which i'll explain later in the video
so follow me i want to show you how to get a public transportation card and also just
talk about the public transportation in istanbul so if you ever come here
and you want to ride public transportation i'll let you know all you need to know
so let's go before i do please hit that like button also subscribe so let's check it out
okay so right now i'm actually outside of a metro station right over here
which i'm about to enter and just show you so basically i'm about to purchase or pretend i'm
purchasing a public transportation card because any public transportation card you want to get
you want to find these machines you can find at a kiosk but the kiosks will charge you a little
bit more and it's inconvenient so if you go to any metro station any ferry station and any tram
station you should find these machines to buy a car and also to charge it up these are good for
any public transportation in istanbul so this is the this is the machine over here so on the left
you can change the language depending on what language you speak so for example i speak english
let's go to the english flag there we go that's the british flag so istanbul card is 10 turkish
liras and to top up is however much you want to top up and you just put the money through this
so say for example let's go back so i want the istanbul card so i'll just click here
and then i would just put money inside and this is how i get it
this is how i get the sample card and then after the istanbul card you drop
down like here and then it'll just be like this this is the istanbul card right over
here good for any public transportation okay well i don't want that right now
so let me exit out real quick okay it's taking a little bit of time
so let me now charge up the card so i told you you could charge it up so once
it's done bull card you want to charge it up so let's put my card over here
on the card and i want to charge it up more
so let me just so i just put five turkish liras over here
Please wait
now i just put in five turkish liras and then i just exit out
so to do it again real quick so all you do is charge up the card just put the card over here
you're just going to put the money and then once the money is you have to wait what you have to
wait for a little bit and just take out your card that's how you do it then here's the metro i'm
going to show what to do before you go on so this is actually the second world sorry this is the
other the second oldest underground metro in the world the first one is in london second one is
here in istanbul which is amazing okay let me show you so also with istanbul card you're supposed
to attach your HES code to it let me show you right now one of these so look i'm gonna go here
because this card you need your HES code but this one
i already connected my HES Code so i can go inside
you see that guy's having a problem with this card because he doesn't have the HES code connected
so if you guys don't know what hes code is it's basically a code the health code that in
istanbul you're supposed to have anywhere you go like shopping malls or public transportation
which i'm about to ride you need to have a house code that's mandatory and i'll explain about it
more later but right now i want to ride on the metro underground and show you guys how it is
so it looks like
door's about to close right now i'll explain more about
all the information later first i want to show you guys the experience
second oldest underground in the world it's cool
and this one in particular only goes to one station
and to ride this one you go next to istiklal street which is in taksim square area
so before i exit i just want to point out any public transportation you take in istanbul you
just need to tap in your card and you don't need to tap out because in some public transportation
systems in like dubai or in china you have to tap in with your card or whatever station you stop at
you have to tap out so if you look this is the exit and then you can see look over here exit
no tapping out so it's actually pretty cool this is all the public transportations so if you take
the ferry you take the bus if you take the tram or if you take any other public transportation you're
not going to need that okay this is how it looks like right outside of the underground i just took
and basically i just wanted to explain real quick about the hess code because i was kind of
busy just trying to get on the underground so basically with the hess code you want to
know more about the hescode i just made a video about it my previous video you can check it out
but basically this is just like a health code that your everyone in istanbul are supposed
to have if they want to go it's like any like as they said like any public transportation or
any like public mall shopping mall or even take like a domestic flight so you know you have to
first you have to get a hes code then once you get a hes code you're supposed to link it to your card
so as i showed you buying the card once you buy the card now in 2021 you have to
link your hes code to it you want to find out more information about how to get a hes code or
how to link your hes code to your card just see my previous video i explain it more in depth
so this is how it looks right outside of the underground as i said and now i just want to
talk to you about like the different means of transportation in istanbul
okay so now i want to talk to you about the different public transportations
they have in istanbul before i do you're probably wondering like how much does it cost
to go to one place to another so you're taking a public transportation in istanbul it's around
3.5 turkish liras per journey it'll vary just depending on like what public transportation
method you take but let me go over the four types of public transportation methods so the
first one are buses the buses are actually pretty nice and istanbul it goes around
to the most part to many areas in istanbul that's one of them the second one is the
metro the metro goes underground which is also pretty nice and reliable it's nice because
you know you know about how much time it'll take to get to one place to another
the third one is trams because they have trams and istanbul which is nice it's overground and
trams if you don't know it's the overground kind of reminds me of a metro just over ground and it's
very uh convenient because unfortunately in some areas in istanbul they're still building the metro
systems in some areas it's a little bit too old so it's hard for them to put a metro system like
in the sultan ahmed area so they use trams more frequent in that area and then the fourth main
type of transportation is fairies they use fairies a lot actually in istanbul if you don't know the
reason why they use fairies is because uh istanbul you know the city is actually divided in two
half's there's a european side and there's a asian side and it's disconnected by water you can drive
there's a few bridges what most people do day to day they either take a underground metro that it's
connected through under water called the marmara or they have another thing called the fairy
which is very convenient very beautiful you just use your transportation card you take the ferry
and you go from the asian side to the european side or vice versa from the european side to
the asian side so yeah that's basically about it and now you're probably wondering so now you
know how to get the istanbul card you know how to put money on it you know how to link
your HES code on it and you know how to take the public transportation you know different methods
you're probably wondering okay now how how do i know how to get to one place to another
okay so what i do to get around the city i actually use the application called google
maps here's a google maps application on my phone so basically it's very easy very convenient to use
in the beautiful city of istanbul because uh it's nice because it'll give me the estimated
time like how it will take for me to go to one place to another also tell me like what public
transportation i need to take to get to the other place so say for example if i need to
take a bus it'll tell me i need to take a bus but also give me the bus number which is nice
so that being said i think i covered everything in the video about taking public transportation in
2021 in istanbul the main big difference in 2021 you must get hes called a hess code and link it to
your card that's a must so i covered everything i can with public transportation assemble
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