3 Days Canakkale & Gallipoli Tour – Kilitbahir, Anzac Cove & Chunuk Bair

Highlights of the 3 Days Canakkale & Gallipoli Tour

This 3-day Canakkale tour package is built around one detailed, fully guided day on the Gallipoli peninsula, framed by an easy arrival and departure with airport transfers and two nights of hotel accommodation in Canakkale. It suits travellers who want to understand the 1915 campaign properly rather than rush through it, with a professional English-speaking guide explaining the Ottoman-era fortifications, the battlefields and the memorials of both sides. Breakfasts, transport and all entrance fees in the programme are included, and the tour can be arranged as a private trip.

The touring day starts at Kilitbahir Castle and the nearby Namazgah Bastion, where your guide describes the Ottoman defences that controlled the narrowest point of the Dardanelles. You continue to the Sahindere field hospital cemetery, where you hear how wounded soldiers were treated during the war, and to the vast Canakkale Martyrs' Memorial, with time for photographs. Passing Morto Bay and the French Cemetery with commentary on board, you stop at Ertugrul Bay and the Yahya Cavus Monument and Martyrdom on the southern front.

On the northern front you reach Anzac Cove, the Ariburnu cliffs and the Ariburnu cemetery, where the story of the landing of 25 April 1915 is told, and the Respect to Mehmetcik Monument. The tour continues to the Red Ridge and Lagamlar area with its original Anzac trenches and tunnels, the 57th Regiment Memorial associated with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Kesikdere cemetery and Bombasirti, and Cesarettepe with the Sergeant Mehmet Monument. The final section climbs to Hill 261, the Mehmetcik inscriptions, Chunuk Bair (Conkbayiri) with the New Zealand Memorial and the spot where Ataturk's watch is said to have stopped a shell fragment, and Kemalyeri, his command post, making this one of the most complete Gallipoli tours available.