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Although you can visit
the Gallipoli battlefields from Istanbul
in one day,
it's a l-o-n-g day with 10 of the day's
hours spent on a bus.
If time allows,
it's a lot more comfortable to make
Gallipoli an overnight excursion from
Istanbul.
This also gives you the opportunity
to visit Çanakkale and Troy
(map).
Reserve your place with Backpackers
Travel, and you're
taken early by shuttle van from the Backpackers
Travel office in Sultanahmet (map)
to Istanbul's Main
Bus Terminal where you board
a comfortable intercity coach for
the 5-hour ride to Eceabat on
the Gallipoli peninsula.
You're met in Eceabat at mid-day by
a professional tour guide and
vehicle, and you depart for your afternoon
tour of the extensive battlefields,
including:
—The Kabatepe War Museum
—Beach Cemetery (John Simpson's Grave)
—ANZAC Cove
—Ari Burnu (First ANZAC landing place)
—Lone Pine Cemetery (Australian memorial)
—Johnston's Jolly (walk in the ANZAC
trenches)
—View of Shrapnel Valley
—Turkish Memorial
—The Nek and Walker´s Ridge
—Chunuk Bair (main New Zealand memorial)
After your tour, you stay overnight
at a comfortable, budget-priced hostel or
in a 3-star hotel,
as you choose.
If your plan is not to return to Istanbul,
but to continue your travels south
along the Aegean
coast, Backpackers
Travel can make those travel arrangements
for you: hotels and sightseeing in
Bergama (Pergamum), Foça, İzmir, Ephesus,
Bodrum, Pamukkale,
Antalya, Cappadocia,
or wherever your itinerary takes you
next. More...
Or, Argeus
Tourism & Travel offers
a 6-day
Self-Drive Tour from Istanbul
via Gallipoli, Troy,
and the Aegean
coast to Ephesus,
with an overnight in a mountain
lodge on the slopes of
historic Mount
Ida. More...
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