Gallipoli Half Day Tour from Canakkale
Gallipoli Day Tour
Visit Gallipoli from Çanakkale in a half-day guided tour. Explore ANZAC Cove, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair, and more. Transfers and guide included.
Tour Overview
Join our half-day guided Gallipoli tour from Çanakkale and discover one of the most emotional and historically significant battlefields of the First World War. This tour is perfect for those who have limited time but want to pay tribute to the ANZACs and Turkish soldiers who fought on this sacred ground.
- Afternoon departure: Perfect for travelers arriving late or with a flexible schedule.
- Expert guiding: Learn the stories behind each location from experienced local guides.
- Comprehensive visit: Includes all key sites — ANZAC Cove, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair, and more.
- Hotel pick-up & drop-off: Included from central Çanakkale hotels, or meet at the ferry port Tourist Info if outside zone.
Walk through trenches, visit cemeteries, and reflect at memorials — all in just one powerful afternoon.
Tour Itinerary
12:30 ─ You will be picked up from your hotel in Çanakkale and transferred to Eceabat.
(Exact pick-up time depends on your hotel location and will be shared in advance. If your hotel is outside the pick-up zone, please make your way to the Tourist Info Office in front of Çanakkale Ferry Port.)
12:50 ─ Arrival in Eceabat.
13:00 ─ Depart for Gallipoli Battlefield and begin your guided half-day tour.
- Brighton Beach: Once used by ANZAC soldiers for swimming, despite the danger of enemy snipers.
- Beach Cemetery: Final resting place of many Allied soldiers, including John Simpson Kirkpatrick — the “man with the donkey.”
- ANZAC Cove: The iconic landing site of ANZAC troops on April 25, 1915 — where the Gallipoli campaign began.
- Ari Burnu: One of the fiercest battle zones during the campaign, located just north of ANZAC Cove.
- Lone Pine Cemetery: A key Australian memorial and cemetery named after a solitary pine tree that stood here during the war.
- Johnston’s Jolly: Area of trench warfare; view preserved Turkish and Allied trenches side by side.
- Shrapnel Valley: Named after the heavy shelling, this valley was used as a supply route and makeshift hospital zone.
- Turkish Memorial: Honoring the bravery of Turkish troops, with moving words by Commander Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
- The Nek: Site of the tragic and heroic charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade.
- Chunuk Bair: A New Zealand memorial and strategic high point of the campaign, with breathtaking views and emotional stories.
17:00 ─ The Gallipoli tour concludes.
You will be transferred back to your hotel in Çanakkale.
What's Included
Included
- Pick up and drop off from hotels
- Transportation on the tour
- English Speaking Licenced Tour guide
- Entrance Fee to the mentioned sights
- All necessary land transportation by A/C Touristical Vehicles
- Local Taxes
- Lunch
Not Included
- Personal Expenses
- Drinks at lunch
Important Remarks
Please read the following important information carefully before booking. These remarks contain essential details about your tour experience.
- The tour starts with pick-up from your hotel in Çanakkale or from the Tourist Info Office near the ferry terminal if your hotel is outside the pick-up zone.
- The tour runs in the afternoon only (approximately 12:30 to 17:00).
- English-speaking professional guides provide historical and cultural context at all stops.
- Includes comfortable round-trip transportation from Çanakkale to Gallipoli (via Eceabat).
- Entrance fees, guiding, and transportation are included in the tour price.
More Details
The afternoon sun casts a warm glow over the Dardanelles as you board your vehicle in Çanakkale, ready to step into the pages of history. Within minutes, you’re crossing to Eceabat, and the stories of Gallipoli begin to unfold.
Your first stop is Brighton Beach, once a swimming spot for ANZAC troops — peaceful now, but once deadly under the aim of Turkish snipers. At the Beach Cemetery, silence speaks louder than words as you stand before the graves of fallen soldiers, some barely twenty years old.
At ANZAC Cove, you walk the very ground where soldiers landed at dawn on April 25, 1915. The narrow beach, steep cliffs, and scattered memorials tell of the struggle they faced. From there, the tour winds through legendary sites like Ari Burnu and Lone Pine Cemetery, where courage and loss share the same soil.
As you explore preserved trenches at Johnston’s Jolly and gaze into Shrapnel Valley, you begin to understand the terrain’s deadly grip. At the Turkish Memorial, Atatürk’s compassionate words echo across the hills, reminding you that valor lived on both sides.
Finally, you stand at Chunuk Bair — a New Zealand memorial perched on a strategic ridge. The breeze is strong, the view vast, and the emotion real. The tour ends, but the impact remains long after you return to your hotel.
This is not just a battlefield. It’s a place where stories of sacrifice, humanity, and history converge.
Anzac Cove at Gallipoli... we first traveled to Gallipoli when they commemorated the 78th anniversary and some of our diggers were still with us. It was very different at that time then, it is so built up now. Gallipoli a must for ALL AUSTRALIANS and NEW ZELANDERS.
Explore Gallipoli by ToursCE. Thank you toursce.com and your travel team for an awesome day! From pickup to drop off all of the well organized by the Toursce team. what an informative day & learned so much about the Gallipoli campaign.
Our guide Coskun was excellent and very knowledgeable about Gallipoli and Anzacs. Our tour was included Anzac Cove, Beach Cemetery, Ariburnu Cemetery, the New Zelander and Australian War Cemeteries Cemeteries including the the Beach Cemetery, Lone Pine Cemetery, walking through the Anzacs and Turkish trenches. It was a great trip, well organized and toursCE was very good. We booked the tour online and I like to thank you very special price. I am wondering our dinner and show cruise on the Bosphorus tomorrow with unlimited drinks now. Thank you very much Tuna.
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