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Canakkale Slideshow
Canakkale
Travel Blogs from Canakkale, Turkey
Canakkle - Troy
Canakkale: 5/23/2008 - 1. Transfer 8 hours from Istanbul 2. Pub w/ live Turkish Music 5/24/2008 - 1. Ruins at Troy 2. Walk around city of Canakkale 3. Night bus transfer to ...
Troy
Today, Chris and I visited Troy, made famous by Homer and his in-depth tale titled 'The Iliad' with immortal characters such as Agamemnon the king, Achilles the warrior, Odysseus the king, Hector the prince, Helen (of Sparta, then Troy) the princess and ...
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 ...
City of Troy
Troy was a day trip linked to our Gallipoli Tour. It was good to go, although the place was a bit run down and the it was kinda a Ruin of Ruins if you get the gist... Was good to see the Trojan Horse Replica though and meet some other ...
Island Life
This had better be worth it we thought as the boat from Canakkale to Gökçeada bounced and threw us all over the place. Luckily it was! The true moral of the story should be, never assume that the hotel right on the waterfront and closest to you will be ...
The Seat of Satan, The coming of age for a nation
... /statues were Egyptian in style with animal heads and Pharaohs headdresses. We then hopped on a bus for 4 hours and arrived in Canakkale From there we took a tour to Gallipoli, it was amazing! It was a welcome change from old rocks and historical sites, ...
Troy and Gallipoli
... ate breakfast at the hotel and went to wait for the bus that would take us to Troy. It was 20-30 minutes from Canakkale. We picked up our tour guide at the entrance to the park. He was extremely knowledgeable! He has actually written several books about ...
Troy
Canakkale is a harbour town in the Gallipoli region that is a stopover for all the groups visiting the battelfields and memorial sites. It is also popular as a base for visiting Troy, one of Turkey's World Heritage sites, which is what we are ...
Troy and a wooden horse
... . We drove out of the city past huge production farms and seemed to drive forever but in the afternoon came to a town called Canakkale which is the ferry town where boats cross the Dardanelle strait to the area around Gallipoli (Gelibou in Turkish) and we ...
Gallipoli peninsula & Anzac Cove
... It is a place of celebration for them and also a place where they to lost many soldiers. We drove onward towards the Greek/Turkey border pondering on the Anzac’s, the coming border officials and the flavour of the Turkish delights still in the box. ...
Day 237 - Travel to Çanakkale
... were in luxury! We stopped for lunch at a typical roadside complex enjoying and ordering a meatball sandwich called köfte here in Turkey. Along the way, we got our first views of the sparkling Aegean Sea, shimmering a rich navy ...
Canakkale
After dumping my backpack, I took a quick walk down the waterfront promenade to see the famous Trojan horse that was donated after being used for the movie "Troy." It looked pretty authentic and the kids were having fun playing around it. The town ...
Turkey
... a while. I had some trouble getting internet connection over here, and we've been real busy the whole time. Finally arrived in Turkey. The flight from Malaysia was delayed by two hours, and because of delays from the earlier trip, we spent 12 hours flying ...
a private jetty for us!
Blind luck lead us to Assos (it's in the back assos of nowhere! Boom boom), we'd been planning on travelling quite a bit further but for once our reading of scales on the map let us down and we decided to take our chances down a coast road. Thank God we ...
Gallipoli
Did my duty as an Australian and took the pilgrimage to Gallipoli where thousands of Australians lost their lives in World War One. You can tell the town virtually lives for one week of the year with high rise hotels lying dormant waiting for the ...
Troy
5/25 The traditional Turkish breakfast is sliced tomatoes & cucumbers and a LOAF of bread. I came down for breakfast and there was literally a loaf of bread with each breakfast tray. These were not little baguettes either; these were more like a loaf ...
Aussies and NewZealanders everywhere
... removed. The laws prevail to this day and as a result, you will never find bad bread in Turkey. Always fresh and heavenly soft. In Canakkale, myself and Brian somehow wondered into a Turkish ghetto. The streets were unpaved dirt roads with electic ...
Anzac Cove
We found a collection of audio files from the Australian War Memorial which detailed a structured trip around all the cemeteries at Anzac Cove. The commetary included both factual details re the events that took place at each cemetery, but also ...
Troia
Today we spent most of the day on the bus, I think we drove east but I have yet to look at a map. At one point, we went by car ferry across the Dardanelles strait officially going from Europe to Asia. Then on to see the ruins of ...
Gallipoli
... knowledgeable about the various battles of the 255 days of the Anzac campaign and Churchill's futile plan to capture Istanbul and knock Turkey out of the war in 1915. What Churchill strategy managed to do instead was to get rid of over 800 Allied ...
Day 238 - War, What is it Good For?
... to a Mosque. It was an era of construction as the Ottoman Empire solidified its dominance and presence over not just Turkey but the surrounding nations and continents. We had the place to ourselves and explored the high walls, the circular ...
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
DAY 42. SEPTEMBER 12. CANAKKALE To Johnny and Mehmet "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly. Therefore rest in peace, there is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us ...
Anzac Cove
Anzac Cove on the Galipolli Peninsular. Cameron & I arrived in Eçeabat from Istanbul in the afternoon. We walked around the tiny town until we figured there was only one hostel open and booked in to the Eçeabat Hotel - also known as TJs. It did ...
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 ...