Tour 4 - ISTANBUL - GALLIPOLI

Join a full day - fully guided tour from Istanbul to historical Gallipoli Peninsula -See the Anzac Cove & Memorials, walk the historical battlefields, trenches and tunnels, see the war memorials and Modern Kabatepe museum in tribute to the many lost here in World War l's Battle of Gallipoli. ..

Depart from your hotel in Istanbul at 6.30 am and returns approx. 22.30 pm

Sites to visit: Lunch at arrival, KABATEPE WAR MUSEUM, BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC COVE, LONE PINE, AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND MEMORIALS, THE NEK & WALKER'S RIDGE, TURKISH MEMORIAL, CHUNUK BAIR HEIGHTS

INTRODUCTION OF SITES

* Gallipoli - was the biggest & bloodiest campaign of World War I, in which more than 500,000 soldiers laid down their lives.

* Kabatepe War Museum - A modern museum hosts the findings from the Gallipoli War & provides a virtual tour of the peninsula with maps, images and interactive panoramas, 3D films & sound effects.

* Beach Cemetery & Ari Burnu Cemetery - Contains the known graves of New Zealanders & Australians.

* Anzac Cove - The little bay where the principal landing area of The Australia and New Zealand Army Corps and location of the dawn service on Anzac Day.

* Lone Pine - A set of Turkish trenches south of Johnston's Jolly, taken and held by the Australians during the WW I.

* Johnston's Jolly - A Turkish position just north of Lone Pine.

* The Nek - A narrow tongue of no man's land, running from Anzac Cove towards the Turkish trenches.

* Wallker's Ridge - The left flank of the original Anzac line.

* Turkish Memorial - Holds the Turkish 57th Regiment cemetery. 57th Regiment was the first to fight to ANZACs and nobody in the 57th Infantry Regiment survived from the war.

* Chunuk Bair Heights - It is the highest ridge on Gallipoli peninsula & the place where Turkish defenders and soldiers of New Zealand and Britain fought in August 1915.

* Dardanelles - a strategic waterway connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara.