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Day 3 (Gallipoli)
so the group is : Susan "Sue", Natasha, Alisdair, Alecia, Paul, Dave, Anthea "Tweeder", John "Sub Woofa", Clint, Kellie, Tracy, Carmen, Hayley, Jayde, Matthew, Claire, Arran "Dot", Blair, Michael "Coops", Rachel, Emma we leave Istanbul and drive 295km, 5hrs to Gallipoli and the Dardanelles- one of the most important sites in Turkey (for me anyway …
Storm of epic proportions
... being defended by a single division of Turks. Mustafa Kemal, an officer in the Turkish army, rallied this division that wasn't his, then left to bring his troops to relieve the soldiers. The 57th Division were all killed, and to honor them, there has never been another 57th division. This battle became known as a gentleman's war, because there were so many instances of helping the opposing forces. Kemal unified the nationalists with his efforts ...
City of Troy & Gallipoli
... minute ferry across to Gallipoli area. We met up with the rest of our tour group that came by bus from Istanbul. We had some lunch at a nice restaurant along the water and chatted to our tour group, we were all Aussies! Our guide gave us a lot of information about World War 1 and everything that happened to Turkey as well. It was very interesting hearing the story from their point of view as we only hear what happened to us. The bus stopped at many locations ...
Gallipoli
... Nek - original trenches, Chunuk Bair - New Zealand Memorial. A magic part of the trip was to walk on the beach of the place of the landing at dawn on the 25th April 1915. Our wonderful friendly bus driver took a shining to Talia and played with her at stops and picked wild flowers and poppies with her. He even went on a scavenge for ...
Peace At Last
... initial excavations caused extensive damage to artifacts and it is impossible to establish whether the city of Priam and Hector ever existed as described in the Iliad. We could see pottery from a much older period. "The wind brought wealth to Troy" - an inscription stated in multiple languages. The reason being the location of the ancient city. It was right at the entrance to the Dardanelles. Before the ancients learned to sail against the wind ...
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