Çanakkale Merkez Trip Overview
Small-Group Tour to Gallipoli ANZAC Battlefields from Canakkale, in company with a professional English Speaking Guide. Learn the ANZAC Spirit and the Diggers. Look into a 9 months campaign from Australian, New Zealand and Turkish perspective. Enjoy the ferry ride on The Dardanelles across the narrowest part of The Dardanelles.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Çanakkale Merkez, Turkey
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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Small-Group Tour to Gallipoli ANZAC Battlefields from Canakkale, in company with a professional English Speaking Guide. Learn the ANZAC Spirit and the Diggers. Look into a 9 months campaign from Australian, New Zealand and Turkish perspective. Enjoy the ferry ride on The Dardanelles across the narrowest part of The Dardanelles.
At 11.30am you will collected from your hotel in Canakkale. At 11.45 The tour departs and proceeds by Kilitbahir Car Ferry across the Dardanelles. Before proceeding to the battlefields, lunch is provided at the Maydos Restaurant & Bar.
After lunch the tour travels by air-conditioned tour bus to the battlefield area to visit; Brighton Beach, the intended landing place where you can swim, weather permitting; Beach Cemetery on the southern tip of ANZAC Cove, the landing place of the first wave of ANZAC
troops and home to up to 30,000 troops during the campaign (John Simpson Kirkpatrick of Simpson and his donkey is buried in this cemetery).
Continue on to Ari Burnu Cemetery on the northern tip of ANZAC Cove, here you will find the Lone Pine Australian Memorial that is on the site of the attack and capture of Turkish trenches by the Australians. View Johnston’s Jolly Allied Turkish trenches and tunnels, 57th Regiment Turkish Memorial, The Nek site depicted in ‘Gallipoli’ movie and finally Chunuk Bair New Zealand.
You will be returned to your hotel.
