Daily Gallipoli Battlefields Tour – Kilitbahir, Anzac Cove & Chunuk Bair

Daily Gallipoli Battlefields Tour — From Kilitbahir to Chunuk Bair

This guided Gallipoli day tour covers the key battlefields, memorials and cemeteries of the 1915 campaign in one full day, starting from Eceabat on the Gallipoli peninsula. Travelling in a small group with a professional English-speaking guide, you follow the story of the campaign from the Dardanelles defences to the ridges where its outcome was decided, with lunch and all entrance fees included.

The route begins at Kilitbahir, where the Ottoman fortress and the Rumeli Mecidiye Bastion guarded the narrowest point of the strait, and the monument to Corporal Seyit, who is said to have carried a huge shell to his gun by hand. You then visit the Sahindere Martyrdom and the towering Canakkale Martyrs' Memorial before continuing past Morto Bay to the southern tip of the peninsula, where Allied troops came ashore at Cape Helles on the Sedd el Bahr front. Nearby stand the Yahya Cavus Martyrdom and Ertugrul Bay, reminders of the fierce defence of the landing beaches.

On the northern front the tour reaches Anzac Cove and the Anzac hills, then follows the path linked to the 57th Regiment Martyrdom, the unit Mustafa Kemal ordered to hold the line. The final stop is Chunuk Bair, the summit where Ataturk commanded his soldiers and where, according to the well-known story, a piece of shrapnel was stopped by the pocket watch over his heart. It is a moving day for anyone interested in First World War history, and many visitors find the stories told at these sites deeply emotional.