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Canakkale Slideshow
Canakkale
Travel Blogs from Canakkale, Turkey
ANZAC Day
What a day. After a seven hour GRUELLING bus journey we arrived at the commemorative site at 8pm. Only 9 and a half hours of waiting outside ın the cold to go!! There is always something going on to inform and entertain you. Australian army band ...
Stiff Legs
... some dinner and got caught up on the news on the BBC. We had intended to visit the Gallipoli Battlefields from Canakkale but found out that all the tours offered are very expensive and there is no public transit. We thought we ...
The Asian side of Turkey
Well I just have one photo but we had a great time here. Cam and I ate breaky one morning at the Marina and dreamt about owning a ...
Gallipoli and the Boomarang Bar
Unfortunately we didn't get to see much of Gallipoli on our way to our night camping outside the Boorarang Bar but it was still very moving reading the headstones of the men who died there. I remember learning about it at school and what a colossal waste ...
ANZAC day
Luci and I arrived back in Athens around 7am after a pretty uneventful ferry trip. Saying that Luci did sit next to a 145kg lady that snored louder than a V12 engine revving at at 7000rpm :) Our plan was to drive 5-hrs to Thessaloniki, have ...
Gallipoli
... president of the Republic of Turkey. After our tour we took a ferry for the short 15 minute ride across the Dardanelles to Canakkale on the Asian side. It is a small town but offers the closest lodging to the battlefields. We stayed at the pleasant ...
Gallipoli/Canakkale
As we left Cannakale we stopped at the site ot Troy for a quick 1 hour tour. The site is pretty small (so only an hour was needed), but I did get the picture to prove I was there! ...
GALLIPOLI TOUR, ANZAC, TURKEY
... seemed to be so excited that I would answer all of their questions. They were thrilled to learn we have toured other areas of Turkey and that I knew a few words. One woman said I was beautiful! I thanked her and then complemented all of them on their ...
Gallipoli Tour
... strategically important it was. 360 degree views - the Aegean Sea on one side right down to the Dardenelles and across to Canakkale on the other. Magnificent. There are also preserved trenches all along the ridge line here. From the high point of Chunuk ...
Gallipoli
... of Gallipoli, but that Turkey was also- through the gain of their National hero Ataturk, who is considered the father of modern day Turkey and a very strong and progressive leader. There is so much more to be said, but i won't bore you... All in ...
Lest We Forget
Leaving Troy we headed back to canakkale and went to the Archaeological museum which houses a lot of the artefacts from Troy so was a good way to round that visit off. We then got the car ferry across to Gallipoli. The site is now a national memorial park ...
Remembering the ANZACS
... cemetaries but I've also had a couple older chaps speak to me appreciatively for the efforts NZ made all those years ago. Next, I'm heading down the west coast of Turkey along the Agean. Still pretty warm here (23 celcius) but quite windy. ...
Istanbul Last Week
... , then caught a 7am ferry to Bandirma to the west. That takes two hours. A mini-bus takes one from the ferry dock to the main bus station (otogar). It's another two or three hours by bus to Canakkale; then another mini-bus to the village of ...
ANZAC remembrance
Today was a very movıng day. Fırst we had to cross the border from Greece to Turkey whıch wasnt as bad as people saıd. We were hearıng storıes of other people beıng randomly gıven cavıty searches and thıngs lıke that, but ıt was an easy ...
Gallipoli
... out of the hotel by 7. We had a long journey ahead of us. About 5 hours drive to a small town called Canakkale(Chanakkale pronounced in Turkish). The drive was quite interesting. The scenery was constantly changing and there were some spectacular views of ...
Travel to Turkey
Traveled to Turkey. Getting across the border with the car was fun. We got sent from office to office, dept to dept, booth to booth before I asked the Turkish copper for help. He then spoke to the guy giving us the run around and we got through in a ...
Gallipoli and Troy
... to Turkish experts on Gallipoli they believe no-one won because of the huge amount of deaths. Ataturk was a large part of Turkey's success. According to our guide the Turkish forces were retreating until he made them keep fighting. Gallipoli is a ...
Going Solo
... Istanbul my next planned port of call was Gallipoli, a pilgrimage that I think just about every Australian and New Zealand in Turkey feels compelled to make. Having finished up on my Intrepid trip I was quite looking forward to some solo travelling again, ...
Country Roads - Take Me to Assos
(C) I woke up this morning with the overcast doldrums of knowing your trip is almost over. Today we travel back towards Istanbul and we still get to see some really cool stuff, but tomorrow we'll be at the airport headed towards home. I'm ...
Przyladek Galipoli, Çanakkale
Uff - w koncu udalo nam sie opuscic naszych istanbulskich hostow, chociaz mieslismy propozycje zostania jeszcze 2 dni. Nie dalismy sie jednak skusic ;), podziekowalismy, pozegnalismy sie, zarzucilismy plecaki na grzbiet i ruszylismy w dalsza droge. ...
Down to Gallipoli and the Aegean
... the Aegean side of the Gallipoli Peninsular........ Going to Kiltbahir also worked out well as there was a regular car ferry across to Canakkale on the opposite side, which was our next destination, but this was a much easier and cheaper ferry to take ...
Assos and Just Lying in the Sun
Had a great night's sleep after so many days of early starts! Headed off after breakfast back to Behramkale to see the ruins of Assos. Stopped at a little grocery shop at the main cross road (there's only 2 roads through Behramkale) to buy water and ...
Gallipoli: A tough place to visit
... ;Turks, or 1 in 75, visit Gallipoli. See Attaturk took the Ottoman army, the Turkish contingent, and won a battle that saved Turkey from outright conquer (at the time). His men knew that the would be finished if they didn't win ...
Gallipoli
... won't do me any harm at all. We left the Gelibolu Peninsula just before dusk, riding on the ferry across the Dardanelles to the town of Canakkale where we stop for the night. As a group we head out to dinner. There are a number of good people to share ...
Off to Gallipoli
Had a sleep in as it will be a while until I would be in a bed again. Checked into my new hotel. Had lunch and went for a walk through the spice bazaar. It sold more than spices here- had the same crap as the Grand Bazaar. Went back to the hotel to ...