Gallipoli Day Tours are held every day of the year. Many tour companies organize this tour. You have the option to depart from three locations. But the most popular is departing from Istanbul. Meeting point and departure time varies according to the companies. The program is almost the same except for minor alterations. Our advice is that you choose a local company.
Gallipoli Day Tours Visiting Points
+ Beach Cemetery and Anzac Cove (First ANZAC landing place); Beach Cemetery; (391 burials) is a curved plot 80m in length just above the point of Hell Spit facing the sea and was used throughout the occupation.
This is among the best known and most famous of the Anzac cemeteries, possibly because here is the grave of the best known of all the Anzac soldiers — Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, 3rd Field Ambulance (plot I, row F, grave 1).
+ John Simpson’s Grave in Beach Cemetery ; Simpson and his donkey; John “Jack” Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. After landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, he obtained a donkey and began carrying wounded British Empire soldiers from the frontline to the beach, for evacuation. He continued this work for three and a half weeks, often under fire, until he was killed. Simpson and his Donkey are a key part of the “Anzac legend”.
+ Ari Burnu and Ariburnu Cemetery; Ari Burnu Cemetery (253 burials) is named after the promontory at the north end of Anzac Cove and was used throughout the occupation.
Until 2000, Ari Burnu Cemetery has been the site of the Anzac Day Dawn Service. The cemetery was begun during the campaign. Among the 182 Australian graves are 82 of men from the Australian Light Horse regiments.
+ Anzac Commemorative Site on North Beach ( they stayed here until the end of the war )
+ Respect to Mehmetcik Statue (The story told for Lord Casey on his remebrance)
+ Lone Pine Australian Cemetery – Memorial (Australian Commemorative Site); This cemetery derives its name from the single pine tree observed to be growing here when the Australian soldiers came up here from the landing on 25 April 1915. From that date through to August there was much heavy fighting at Lone Pine, the rear of the cemetery today marking where the Anzac lines were during those months and the wall and pylon of the Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing marking the region of the Turkish trenches.
+ Walk to Johnston’s Jolly from Lone Pine in the original ANZAC trenches and tunnels ; The area of the Anzac battlefield known as Johnston’s Jolly lies along the ridge just north of Lone Pine. It was named for the commander of the 2nd Australian Division Artillery, Brigadier-General George Johnston, and was reached by Australian soldiers on the morning of the landing of 25 April 1915. The field-guns of Johnston’s artillery were said by the troops, to ‘jolly up’ the Turkish battery opposite. This position, known to the Turks as Kirmezi Sirt or ‘Red Ridge’, was lost on 26 April and never retaken by the Australians.
+ Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial on the Chessboard
+ View to Shrapnel Valley and Anzac Cliffs ( Everyone was afraid to walk )
+ The Nek (Light Horse scene depicted in the Gallipoli movie) & Walker’s Ridge; Five Australians are commemorated in this cemetery by Special Memorials. Of these, four died on 7 August 1915 during the charge of the 8th Light Horse (Victoria) and 10th Light Horse (Western Australia). The only identified Australian grave here is that of Private Alexander Campbell, 12th Battalion, who died the day of the landing, 25 April 1915, as his unit fought their way along Russell’s Top towards Baby 700. Four New Zealanders of the Otago Regiment, who died in early May 1915 during the Battle of the Landing, are also buried at The Nek.
+ Walk to Chunuk Bair from Hill 261 in the restored ANZAC and Turkish trenches
+ The Anonymous Grave ( Made in 1985 is during the restoring trenches )
+ Chunuk Bair Main New Zealand Memorial ( New Zealand Commemorative Site ); Chunuk Bair was one of the main objectives in the Battle of Sari Bair, fought 6-10 August 1915. The attack was to be carried out by two columns of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, starting from the outposts on the shore and proceeding up the Sazli Belt Dere and the Chailak Dere. Meanwhile the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were to clear the foothills.
+ View to Anafartalar Plain, Suvla Bay and Salt Lake
+ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Memorial; The attack on Chunuk Bair was one of the New Zealand’s key events on Gallipoli. New Zealander soldiers fought hard to get the summit. Their attempt was met with the defense led by The Turkish Commander Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Gallipoli Day Tours Departing Options
- Gallipoli Day Tour from Istanbul
- Gallipoli Day Tour from Canakkale
- Gallipoli Day Tour from Selcuk
Gallipoli Day Tour Companies
- Lutars Travel
- Crowded House Gallipoli
- Tj’s Travel
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