There are easier, warmer and more comfortable ways to travel from Europe to Asia – and definitely less challenging – than swimming across Turkey’s Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits.
For almost 40 years, local and international open sea swimming enthusiasts have had the chance to swim across these waterways that separate the two continents, either in the city Istanbul – which the Bosphorus divides – or the Dardanelles, further south near the World War I battlefields of Gallipoli.
What started as small events attracting a handful of diehard swimmers has grown into main attractions on the global so-called blue water circuit, and encouraged other Turkish regions to offer similar challenges.
Since it was first staged 37…
