2023 - Gallipoli Battlefields Tour
2023 - Gallipoli Battlefields Tour
2023 - Gallipoli Battlefields Tour
8 Days Starting and ending in Istanbul
Visiting: Istanbul, Çanakkale
Tour operator:
Tour code:
BTL
Guide Type:
Fully Guided
Group size:
2 - 20
Physical rating:
Low
Age range:
8-99
Tour operated in:
EnglishTour Overview
This 8 day tour, starts and ends in Istanbul, Turkey. This tour visits the Blue Mosque, St Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace and the Hippodrome. Then spend 3 full days visiting every corner of the Gallipoli battlefields, the ANZAC sector, Cape Helles and Suvla Bay. This tour gives an in-depth insight of the Gallipoli campaign.
Highlights
Itinerary
Day 1 : Istanbul
Location: Istanbul
Accommodation: Nidya Hotel Galataport (4 star)
Welcome to Istanbul, where you will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. Tonight, meet with your guide and the rest of your group.
Day 2 : Istanbul Old City
Location: Istanbul
Accommodation: Nidya Hotel Galataport (4 star)
Meals Included: Breakfast
Today you will enjoy a guided tour of the only city to span two continents, visiting the Blue Mosque, St Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace (including Hagia Irene), the Hippodrome and the Turkish Military Museum.
Cruise between two continents on the stretch of water that separates Europe from Asia in the afternoon with an optional 'Half day Bosphorus cruise'.
Day 3 : Troy
Location: Çanakkale
Accommodation: MD Barbaros Hotel (Special Class)
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
We depart along the coast of the Sea of Marmara for our afternoon tour of Troy. After visiting the newly built Troy Museum, we step back in time today as we visit Troy, famous for the legendary Trojan Horse from the times of beautiful Helen, the Queen of Sparta, and Paris, the Trojan Prince.
Day 4 : Anzac Cove, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair
Location: Çanakkale
Accommodation: MD Barbaros Hotel (Special Class)
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Today we visit the WW1 battlefields of Gallipoli commencing with ANZAC Cove, where the Australians and New Zealanders landed. We spend the morning walking along the landing beach and visiting the battlefields, nearby military cemeteries and preserved trenches and tunnels. We visit the Australian memorial at Lone Pine and Johnston's Jolly, original trenches and tunnels, before detouring to the Nek, where the Australian Light Horse Brigade suffered heavily in August offensives. The day ends on the New Zealand Battlefield at Chunuk Bair, seeing more preserved trenches and visiting the memorial.
Day 5 : Cape Helles, Krithia
Location: Çanakkale
Accommodation: MD Barbaros Hotel (Special Class)
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast we continue our tour of the April 25th landing sites as we move to the British landing sites of 25th April, 1915. We visit Mehmetcik Abide - Turkish Memorial, the Helles Memorial - British Memorial to the missing, a Turkish gun battery, V beach where the SS River Clyde landed the men of 29th division, the Lancashire landing site where the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers were awarded six VC's before breakfast, Krithia war museum and nearby Twelve Tree Copse cemetery and N.Z. Memorial. This visit requires some walking as the roads to the beaches are not accessible by coach.
Day 6 : Suvla Bay Shell Green
Location: Çanakkale
Accommodation: MD Barbaros Hotel (Special Class)
Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner
Today we head to Sulva Bay, where some of the first British ‘New Army' Battalions joined the action in August 1915. Here we study the landings and also look at the history of the lost battalion, 1/5th Norfolk, the men from the Sandringham Royal estate who disappeared during the fighting in Sulva Bay. We will visit some of the less visited areas within the Gallipoli battlefields including Suvla Bay, Hill 60, Scrubby Knoll (Kemal Yeri) and Hill 971.
Day 7 : Canakkale, Istanbul
Location: Istanbul
Accommodation: Nidya Hotel Galataport (4 star)
Meals Included: Breakfast
This morning we visit Naval Museum and the minelayer, Nusret, before we retrace our steps and travel back to the exotic city of Istanbul.
Day 8 : Istanbul
Accommodation: ()
Meals Included: Breakfast
After breakfast, our tour concludes and we say goodbye to our new friends before being transferred to the airport for your onward flight.
What's Included
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Entrance fees
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Professional English-speaking local tour guides at each site
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Transportation in a fully air-conditioned, non-smoking vehicle
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Car ferry fees between Canakkale and Eceabat
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Tips except Driver and Guide
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Meals
7 breakfasts, 0lunches, 4dinners
What's Not Included
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Compulsory Travel Insurance
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Suggested optional activities
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Tips - Driver and Guide
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