Leaving Istanbul in the cool air of the early morning we transfer out to the edge of town by taxi where we met the truck and got ourselves organised in the relative peace of the suburbs and without constantly being asked to buy carpets. The drive to Gallipoli took 6 hrs with lunch in a café en route. At Gallipoli there were memorials to all the Australian, New Zealand, British and Turkish troops who died here in what was one of WW1's more tragic offensives. We visited the small Gallipoli Museum which had displays of uniforms, bullets, artillery and letters.

From here we drove down along the shoreline to the North Beach Memorial Site with the well known brick wall with ANZAC in big letters across it. This is where on ANZAC day the big memorial service is held. It's not a large space but they managed to fit about 10,000 people in each year. This is one of main landing sites, and just across from the beach were some pretty huge hills. I wouldn't want to have faced climbing them. It was only about 100m up the road the next stop, at ANZAC cove, another one of the landing sites. There is a beautiful big memorial sign erected there with a quote/poem from the first Turkish President (Army General against the ANZACs during the war) Ataturk, as well as a small cemetery. From here we ventured inland , and up the hill to the Lone Pine Memorial - The Australian memorial. Another large cemetery and a monument, with the plaques of many of the soldiers who lost their life, as well as the Lone Pine are all perched up on the hill. From here you had a really great lookout point down to the beaches and the surrounding hills and valleys around. Continuing further up the road we came to some ANZAC and Turkish trenches. The Aussie ones were on one side of the road, and no more than 10 meters across the road were the Turkish ones. We scuttled through the trenches for a bit, before jumping back on the bus for the very short trip up to the final memorial, the Kiwi memorial. Right next to it is a massive statue of the big General Ataturk. Then onto the recently completed Turkish Memorial. The last stop for us at Gallipoli was at a lookout over the original massive mountains that we'd seen from North Beach and ANZAC cove, this time from the top. Again it gave fantastic views over the whole area. We then headed for Eceabat for our overnight accomodation at Crowded House Hotel (six of us shared bunk style beds), bbq tea on the beach then drinks at the Boomerang Bar.