We had another big morning of driving the past through the boarder between Turkey and Greece. From there were drove along the Sea of Marmara to Gallipoli and ANZAC Cove which was very moving and quite a beautiful place. We visited the museum and field of poppy’s before heading down to the beach to see where the troops landed, it was spine tingling to see the strip of beach they landed on was only 2 metres from the water into the hills in some sections which really meant they had no chance given the hills were full of Turkish troops – of the first 200 men that landed and tried to get over that 2 metres only 20 survived! We wandered along the beach and to the cemetry on the beach front then up to Lone Pine Cemetery. From there we went up to the top of the hill to the NZ cemetery and Turkish cemetery which had amazing views looking out over Anzac Cove. We camped at a camp ground in Gallipoli by the beach and saw a pretty sunset after tasting real Turkish delight and Baklava – very good!
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| Sunrise as we left Kavala |
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| Driving from Kavala to Gallipoli |
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| Having crossed the boarder into Turkey we were met by lots of Turks trying to sell us their tasty pretzel's |
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| Turkish countryside |
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| Driving along the coast towards Gallipoli |
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| Driving along the coast towards Gallipoli |
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| Turkish countryside |
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| Driving along the coast towards Gallipoli |
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| Driving along the coast towards Gallipoli |
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| Beautiful clear blue water on the way to Gallipoli |
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| The ANZAC museum - field of poppys |
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| In the ANZAC museum |
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| The countryside around ANZAC cove |
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| Amazing coastline approaching ANZAC cove |
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| ANZAC cove - the hills our troops were met with (full of the enemy ready for them) |
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| ANZAC cove - the tiny stretch of beach leading to the hills full of soldiers waiting to attack |
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| ANZAC cove |
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| ANZAC cove |
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| Me in ANZAC cove - proud to be Australian |
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| Hard to believe such a beautiful place could be the site of such loss |
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| ANZAC cove |
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| ANZAC cove |
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| The beach front cemetery of Australian and NZ troops |
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| The beach front cemetery at ANZAC cove |
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| The beach front cemetery at ANZAC cove |
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| The beach front cemetery at ANZAC cove |
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| ANZAC cove |
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| ANZAC cove |
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| Lone Pine cemetery |
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| Lone Pine cemetery |
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| The view out over ANZAC cove from the top of the Lone Pine cemetery |
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| Lone Pine cemetery |
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| Lone Pine cemetery |
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| Lone Pine cemetery |
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| The view of ANZAC cove from the NZ cemetery |
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| The view of ANZAC cove from the NZ cemetery |
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| The Turkish cemetery |
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| The view looking back towards Gallipoli |
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| The trenches |
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| Amazing sunset over the beach at our campsite in Gallipoli |
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