Cape Helles & Anzac Gallipoli Tour from Canakkale

• Lunch included
• Guide included
• Transfers included
• Entry fees included
• Transport included

Cape Helles and ANZAC in One Day

Hotel pickup, the southern Gallipoli line, lunch, the ANZAC sector, and return to Canakkale or Eceabat.

1. 08:30

   Pick up from your hotel.

   You are collected in Canakkale or Eceabat and begin the full-day Gallipoli route with your guide.

   Pickup time may change according to hotel location.

2. Start with the Cape Helles sector.

   The morning focuses on the southern front where the campaign's coastal landings and memorial geography can be read more broadly.

3. Cape Helles and ANZAC Tour Route · 6 stops Kilitbahir Fortress -> Achi Baba -> V Beach -> Cape Helles Memorial -> ANZAC Cove -> Lone Pine -> 57th Regiment -> The Nek -> Chunuk Bair
4. 1

   Kilitbahir Fortress

   Kilitbahir Fortress opens the day by anchoring the entire Gallipoli campaign in its naval origins at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles. Understanding why the strait mattered so much to the Allied war plan adds a strategic weight that enriches every memorial and cemetery you visit afterwards.

5. 2

   Achi Baba and the Cape Helles line

   Achi Baba looms above the southern front as the objective the British forces never fully captured, and climbing toward its slopes reveals why elevation and exposure cost so many lives. The guide explains the repeated offensives here so that the Cape Helles Memorial, just ahead, carries its full weight.

6. 3

   V Beach and Cape Helles Memorial

   V Beach is where soldiers waded through gunfire onto a defended shore, and the sand still feels heavy with that history. The Cape Helles Memorial standing nearby lists over twenty thousand names with no known grave, an immense act of remembrance that most half-day tours never reach.

7. 4

   ANZAC Cove

   After lunch the route swings north to ANZAC Cove, where the familiar name suddenly becomes a narrow, steep-sided beach that instantly explains the confusion and vulnerability of the dawn landings. This transition from the southern British story to the ANZAC sector is one of the most powerful shifts in tone any single-day battlefield tour can offer.

8. 5

   Lone Pine and Johnston's Jolly

   Lone Pine is the most visited Australian war memorial at Gallipoli, and standing among its rows of headstones after already walking V Beach gives the sacrifice a comparative depth that shorter tours rarely achieve. Johnston's Jolly then adds trench-level proximity, placing you between lines that sat mere metres apart.

9. 6

   57th Regiment, The Nek, and Chunuk Bair

   The 57th Regiment Memorial honours the Ottoman soldiers who held this ground against overwhelming odds, balancing the day's ANZAC focus with equal respect. The Nek follows with its narrow ridge of tragic charges, and Chunuk Bair closes the tour at a summit where New Zealand memory and panoramic strategy converge.

10. 17:00

    Tour ends and return transfer.

    At the end of the full-day route, you are transferred back to your hotel in Canakkale or Eceabat.