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The YOUNGuide was born with the idea of local young people (mostly college students) helping the visitors out to discover the city they visit. In this way, tourists are going to be able to see the different faces of the city and the culture while saving up time and money. At the same time, local young people will be able to practice their foreign languages, meet new people from all around the world, and also gain some extra financial support for their tuition.

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Last Sunday YOUNGuide hosted four clients from Azerbaijan; Orhan, Leyli, and Emin, and Aynur. Our YOUNGuide Elif met them in Taksim at 2pm, and they had already been lost several times that morning. Elif and our young friends visited the Maidens Tower, Baghdad Street, ate pide in a unique restaurant, and planned their next 5 days in Istanbul. Elif said it was a very cool experience to hang out with foreigners who spoke Turkish. Thank you for choosing YOUNGuide! Təşəkkür edirək 😚😚😚 #YOUNGuide #Travel #trip #fun #Taksim #maidenstower #BaghdadStreet #Istanbul #Turkey #cityguide #Azerbaijan #Azerbaijani #YOUNGuideIST #brother #Turks #bloodbrothers

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We had Americans! We had Americans :) Karin's very first experience as a YOUNGuide was with lovely couple from United States, Mimi & Paul. Mimi and Paul were in Istanbul for pre-honeymoon and visitied to most attractive destinations of Istanbul in a full day with the help of Karin. Well, who wants to be the next? #guide #YOUNGuide #Istanbul #travel #trip #fun #Sultanahmet #tourist #happy #USA #HagiaSophia #Turkey #America #Americans #joy #US #UnitedStates (Hagia Sophia'da)

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We had Americans! We had Americans :) Karin's very first experience as a YOUNGuide was with lovely couple from United States, Mimi & Paul. Mimi and Paul were in Istanbul for pre-honeymoon and visitied to most attractive destinations of Istanbul in a full day with the help of Karin. Well, who wants to be the next? #guide #YOUNGuide #Istanbul #travel #trip #fun #Sultanahmet #tourist #happy #USA #HagiaSophia #Turkey #America #Americans #joy #US (Hagia Sophia'da)

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We had Americans! We had Americans :) Karin's very first experience as a YOUNGuide was with lovely couple from United States, Mimi & Paul. Mimi and Paul were in Istanbul for pre-honeymoon and visitied to most attractive destinations of Istanbul in a full day with the help of Karin. Well, who wants to be the next? #guide #YOUNGuide #Istanbul #travel #trip #fun #Sultanahmet #tourist #happy #USA #HagiaSophia #Turkey #America #Americans #joy #US (Hagia Sophia'da)

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April 26th... We had a lovely group, 4 from Spain (Ana, Alba, Sara, Ana) and 1 from Germany (Philipp). They had only 1 day to visit Istanbul. Our YOUNGuides Elif and Aslı planned a quick tour to introduce them the hyper touristic places of Istanbul. Here is the message of Sara: " Thank you very much for your help and kind guidance. Thanks to Elif's and Aslı’s help, we could see much more of Istanbul than we initially thought. They showed us the most beautiful places of the city and help us not to get lost in this huge city. Thanks for your patience and recommendations with the transportation and sightseeing. We really recommend them for all the new visitors in Istanbul." (Ayasofya&Sultanahmet'da)

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A late post!!!! Our YOUNGuides Aslı and Elif had our lovely Yi Tong's friends in Istanbul almost a month ago. Yu Chin and Wen Xiu are sisters who are also from Taiwan and love volleyball. It was a pleasure to help them out around the city. We hope they will visit us again. #Istanbul #Turkey #Travel #trip #friend #newfriends #turkish #Taiwan #taiwanese #fun #guide #YOUNGuide #cityguide (Nevizade Sanat Bahce'da)

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Here we go. Yi Tong became Asli's vert first YOUNGuide experience too. After spending time with our YOUNGuide Elif, she decided to get help of YOUNGuide for another day. Aslı helped her to discover some nice parts of the city and coffee shops. It was a joy to spend a day with her. #YOUNGuide #Guide #cityguide #travelguide #Turkey #Istanbul #Taiwan #friend #help #travel #trip #vacation #holiday (Besiktas Sahil'da)

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Here we go. Yi Tıng became Asli's vert first YOUNGuide experience too. After spending time with our YOUNGuide Elif, she decided to get help of YOUNGUide for another day. Aslı helped her to discover some nice parts of the city and coffee shops. It was a joy to spend a day with her. #YOUNGuide #Guide #cityguide #travelguide #Turkey #Istanbul #Taiwan #friend #help #travel #trip #vacation #holiday (Besiktas Sahil'da)

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Yes, sport can do that. It can unite people... YOUNGuide's first official guest was lovely @yitong0403 from Taiwan. Before she came Istanbul, she found out about YOUNGuide and after she checked our website www.younguide, she saw there is a volleyball lover guide named Elif. Yi Tong and our YOUNGuide made it to Burhan Felek Volleyball Hall together and she met somem of her favorite players of Vakıfbank and Galatasaray, specially @nerimanche ... It was a huge pleasure to help Yi Tong here in Istanbul. Well, who wants to be the next??? ;) #YOUNGuide #Guide #travelguide #volleyball #Taiwan #Istanbul #Galatasaray #GalatasarayDaikin #Vakifbank #Turkey #sports (Burhan Felek Voleybol Salonu'da)

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Guess what? Istanbul tops the TripAdvisor travel review of list best spots in the world this year... Rome, London, Beijing, and Pragues follow Istanbul behind. To read more about it, check out: 1- http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/08/travel/top-world-destinations-tripadvisor/index.html?hpt=hp_c3 2- http://www.tripadvisor.com/TravelersChoice-Destinations-cTop-g1 Lots to love this city... #Istanbul #TripAdvisor #Travel #Guide #YOUNGuide (Istanbul, Turkey'da)

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Neither the camera nor the skill of the photographer, it is all about Istanbul... You can take such beautiful pictures even with your mobile phone... The only tip is to know where to go. YOUNGuides can find the best spots for you. #Istanbul #Photography #GalataTower #Bosphorus #SunSet #Travel #Guide #YOUNGuide (Salacak Sahili'da)

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Flavors and Colors of Istanbul: Green Plum (Can Erik in Turkish) GREEN PLUM is a seasonal unripe fruit symbolizing the beginning of Spring and mainly available in April and May. The taste is preffered to be sour and it becomes undesirable for most when its color turns red and flavor turns sweet. This addiction is huge that people even can pay $100 for a kilo at the very beginning of it is production and it has more than 240 thousand erik fans in a single Facebook Page. Who wants to try some this intereseting love of Turks for a fruit? #erik #plum #Istanbul #fruit #guide #YOUNGuide

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Did you know that Istanbul was a home for Eastern Romans, Genoeses, Ottomans, and finally is a home for Turkey's Turks? Istanbul is truly a melting pot. Come visit it with a YOUNGuide... #travel #Turkey #Istanbul #YOUNGuide #history #guide #Ottomans #Byzantine #Genoese

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Biz tamamen amatör ruhla bi işe girdik… Web sitemizi yaymak adına desteğinizi bekliyoruz :) şimdiden teşekkürler ;) www.younguide.com #younguide #istanbul #citytour #guidancesystem

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Who are we?

The founders of the YOUNGuide are close friends who are PhD students and researchers in engineering, and who are used to travel all around the world for both private and academic reasons.

  As you will confirm, nobody wants to waste his/her time and money by trying to go around in a foreign city, or find the best transportation route, or overcome the different alphabet/language barrier. Paying a lot to airplane tickets, having only few days to stay, trying to find the directions and wasting time and money while struggling in the city sound horrible, right? We also have had these problems whenever we travel to a foreign country. And since we have been helping our friends from different nations in Istanbul, we also have the chance to realize their desires and expectations. And finally, we figure out that knowing someone local works perfectly in any part of the world. Just because of all these reasons and even though we did not have any tendency to publish a website or to do this kind of business, the idea of YOUNGuide unexpectably came up...

  One day, during a bus travel back home, we were talking about these kind of problems, college students, multilingual people, and part time jobs. And finally, we decided to match travelers with young, multilingual, dynamic, not professional but enthusiastic people who all live in Istanbul and know the city best. So, we thought we may help foreign visitors who wants to experience this beautiful city. Why not? And we may make some extra money. And for this purpose, we designed the YOUNGuide website including all the details of our new guidance system connecting local people with the city visitors.

  Even though some people told us about fails, we decided to publish this website and give a chance to our idea...

  It is a very local website just for now including only one city, Istanbul. If the idea (guidance system) works and makes sense for larger communities, we are thinking to expand and modify our website by adding many other cities over the world.