Docked on the pier, the boats bobble gently in the water. The sky is streaked by mellow rays of the setting Sun. I find my boat— the Orient Bosphorus. I have arrived a bit too early for the Bosphorus dinner cruise with live performance. The waiters greet me and find me a suitable table. I am about to cruise on one of the planet’s busiest water highways here in Istanbul, Turkey. There can be no other city like Istanbul and no other waterway like the Bosphorus. Established in around 660 BCE by Greek settlers as Byzantium, the city later aligned with the Roman Empire. When the Roman Empire was divided,…