Day-trip to Gallipoli by coach

   ISTANBUL – WW1 Battlefields of Gallipoli – ISTANBUL

06:00 – 07:00 pick you up from your hotel and travel to the WW1 battlefields of Gallipoli. Here, we’ll embark upon a guided tour of the region, once the site of fierce fighting and today almost hauntingly beautiful, with its wooded landscape dotted with understated memorials to the war dead. Our guided tour of the region will take in sights such as Lone Pine Australian War Memorial and cemetery, Chunuk Bair New Zealand War Memorial and cemetery, the Nek, Johnston’s Jolly and the many fortified trenches still clearly visible amongst the scrub after all these years. Roughly 3 feet deep, the system of trenches provided much need safe cover for troops as they desperately fought the enemy.

We’ll also visit the small Kabatepe Information Centre and Museum – a museum of modest proportions which exhibits period uniforms, weapons, copies of letters from servicemen and other poignant personal possessions. Outside the small museum are some memorial gardens and top views of the peninsular memorials dotted across the landscape.

18:00 We return to Istanbul in the evening arriving back at approximately 23:00 hours. (L)

Additional Information :

You can meet the guide at True Blue Tour office we can pick you up from your hotel if it is located in or near Sultanahmet/Taksim. Please advise us of your hotel details if you wish to be picked up.

Included:

• Istanbul hotel pick-up and drop-off
• Transportation in a fully air-conditioned, non-smoking coach
• Professional English speaking tour guide for the duration of the tour
• Entrance fees to the sites
• 1 meal: 1 lunch

Excluded:

• Entry visas where applicable
• Meals unless otherwise stated
•  Transport to and from Turkey
• Tip for your tour guide and driver (We recommend you allow 3 – 5 EUR per day, per traveller as a tip for your guide and 2 EUR per day for your driver. Tipping your guide and driver is an entirely personal gesture)