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Gallipoli Slideshow
Gallipoli
Travel Blogs from Gallipoli, Turkey
Gallipoli
This is a top pick! 8.8.06 Gallipoli Turkey The sun rose in a magnificent orange ball over the sea at about 6 o'clock in the morning with the mountains a blue shadow in the back ground. The water was as still as glass and I didn't have the heart to dive in and disturb ...
Gallipoli - Chuchills great plan - Not!
This is a top pick! ... - and to be honest I had actually enjoyed Hieropolis more! So, our next and final stop we would make with our tour group would be Gallipoli - now I know I don't have to explain this to you all! This is a place that I had wanted to travel since I could ...
Gallipoli: a bastard of a place
This is a top pick! With the conclusion of the dawn service it was time to scale the heights and get a better feel for the monumental Gallipoli (Gelibolu) battlefield - this rugged, craggy lump of land that claimed the lives of more than 100,000 during more than eight months ...
Anzac Cove: Dardanelles dawn service
This is a top pick! ... to get to the Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) Day commemorative services, then further missioning around a rugged Gallipoli peninsula to see the battlefields and cemeteries it contains. Then back to Izmir to meet the Mystery woman. Throw ...
Sir this is a sheer waste of good men - joe ...
This is a top pick! ... is the heroism of the 'enemy', of the Turkish people and the sensitivity of a nation to maintain such a place as Gallipoli. Having ruffled a few feathers now, shall I rewrite the Australian High School history curriculum to reflect the Turkish story a ...
Gallipoli and Troy
This is a top pick! ... . Winston Churchill saw a quick way to remove the Ottoman Empire from the war: by reaching Istanbul from the shores of Gallipoli. Thousands of British, French, Nepali, Indian, New Zealand, and Australian troops invaded these shores on April 25, 1915. ...
The Gallipoli battlefields
This is a top pick! Today we had set aside for the Gallipoli peninsula, visiting the various battlefields and cemeteries that can be found there. We had chosen to join an organised tour here, because even though we all loathe being part of an organised tour, I felt that to ...
Going to Gallipoli
This is a top pick! ... ask for. 6 hours later.. Jay - 5hrs sleep Mari and Mike - 0hrs sleep ... we arrive at our destination. So Gallipoli and the whole ANZAC thing...Not really sure what my feelings where of the whole ANZAC day thing. Each April, some ...
Gallipoli - The Lost Battle.
This is a top pick! ... buses instead of a full tour. The next day a 5 hour journey in a local bus took us from Istanbul to Eceabet which is close to Gallipoli. The trip wasn't without dramas. We were ready and waiting at 6.30 am in the dark to be picked up by a shuttle to take ...
Lest We Forget..
This is a top pick! ... square 2km's in size and home to over 20,000 men. Following the failure of the August 1915 offensive, the Gallipoli campaign entered a hiatus while the future direction was debated. The persistent lack of progress was finally making an impression in ...
Lest We Forget
This is a top pick! ... irrepressible, and we loved him. A former submarine commander with the Turkish navy, Captain Ali had lost a grandfather in the Gallipoli trenches and had an infectious passion for the history and pathos of the Anzac battlefields. He was also a masterful ...
2nd week in June 2003
This is a top pick! ... to enjoy Turkey's Agean Sea a little longer. Saroz sits directly on the Dardanelles and I also visited a place called Gelibolu, (Gallipoli) where Turkey basically beat Australia's butt in the First World War, as my polish friend told me. It is a quiet ...
Venus the love potion
This is a top pick! ... , we would be in for a good day afterwards. We arrived, set up camp and then went and toured around the battlefields of Gallipoli. It is quite amazing seeing these fields and how close the soldiers were to each other. Makes me glad that we are alive at ...
Anzac day
This is a top pick! It took about 4 hours all up to get from Istanbul to Gallipoli with a brief stop along the way to eat my first of many kebabs - some good, some not so good and purchase some of the local mind numbing firewater called raki (İ'll get to this later). Got to ...
Gallipoli - World War One memorials
This is a top pick! ... visible for literally miles and miles. Standing by Ataturks statue near the trenches on the highest ground in the Gallipoli peninsula, looking down at the Dardanelles, it's easy to see why the area has held such strategic significance through ...
Gallopolli and Troy
This is a top pick! ... other. There was also a recreation of the Trojan Horse at the site. The next day we woke really early to take our bus to Gallipoli. We had an awesome guide named Ali whose grand father had fought and died in the war. He had a huge amount of respect for ...
Proud to be a kiwi in Gallipoli
... peak of the Sari Bair range, and was one of the two objectives of the Allied August Offensive that was launched at Gallipoli. The New Zealand Infantry Brigade advanced up Chailak Dere and Sazli Beit Dere during the night of 6-7 August to capture Chunuk ...
how many ships are in your midst?
... , so we were happy enough with 66Euro for 2 weeks compared with 213Euro for 3 hours). From the border we headed towards Gallipoli and the Dardanelles. We've found ourselves in a strange situation with a few days to kill before Damien arrives so we're ...
We love Australia?
... It was a strategic attmept made by the British, Austrailian, and New Zealkand (ANZAC) militaires to gain occupancy of the Gallipoli peninsula (currently occupied by the Turks, who had sided with Germany). After only a few short months of training ...
Turkish Death Tour Part I.
... of trash by the sides of the road, like in South America. We had a six hour drive to yet another battle field. This one, Gallipoli, in WWI is really the point when a few nations came into their own. I being either dreadfully morbid, or just weird, am ...
World War Battlefields
Well, after Seljuk, it was on to Cannakale. Here, we took a ferry across to Gallipoli where we were on one of World War I's battlefield. There were monuments and cemeteries all over the area. I don't think many people can say they have been to a World War ...
Dardenelles
We sailed from Sevastopol, at the tip of the Crimean Peninsula,across the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus Strait, across the Sea of Marmara, through the Dardanelles, and into the Aegean Sea. Leaving the Dardanelles, we had Galipoli on our right and the ...
Troy and Gallipoli
... ll let you do the conversion). After Troy, we returned and just chilled for a half hour. Then we were off to the Gallipoli Peninsula. The following fact will explain the importance of Gallipoli: 500,000 people died as a result of 8 months of battle in ...
Gallipoli
... and last front established by the Anzacs, close to where the Battle of the Nek occurred, which was commemorated in the Peter Weir film "Gallipoli". Our bus to Gallipoli was full of mostly Aussies and Kiwis, and we are sure they also had a unforgettable ...
Day 238 - War, What is it Good For?
... to comprehend. This was definitely the case with WWI in general and in particular the disastrous campaign for the Gallipoli peninsula. We found ourselves, throughout the tour, shaking our heads in disbelief. Our guide was an outgoing guy who ...
War is horrible
Beck: Well, we've done what every Aussie in Turkey must do: visit Gallipoli. Although the Turkish name ıs actually Gellibolu. We watched a documentary about it last night in Selçuk and that was really depressing and revolting. Seeing the actual battle ...
To Johnny and Mehmet
... by themselves. Again I find it hard to explain the feelings of being here so I will quote from a Private Gordon that I found in a Gallipoli book Fee purchased today. These are his thoughts on the April 25 landing "At last the day ended. I can tell you ...
Gallipoli
... Istanbul sprawl, just as Midnight Oil's 'Forgotten Years' ominously hit my Ipod playlist. Like pretty much every Australian that visits Turkey, Gallipoli is the must see location, a kind of pilgrimage that we all seem to make, or feel obliged to make ...
ANZAC Day
... well behaved, respetcful, and whilst it was a tough slog getting through the hours and the elements, attendıng the ANZAC Day Gallipoli service and wandering through the cemetaries and memorials was a wonderful, moving experience that we will never ...