DAY1 (L, D)
Arrive in Istanbul where you are met by your KD guide and driver at the airport. Transfer to your hotel.
Light lunch at the hotel.

Begin your experience of Turkey by enjoying a cruise along the Bosphorus, seeing beautiful Mosques, Palaces and old wooden houses on both the European and Asian shoreline.

Continue to Military Museum which contains an extraordinary collection of weapons, armour and tools. There is a room devoted to campaign tents of Ottoman Sultans and a fascinating collection of miniature Jannisary uniforms. Experience the Janissance Band Performance.
Welcome dinner at the hotel.

DAY2 (B)
After breakfast start discovering Istanbul, first stop at the Blue Mosque; a name given by the visitors fascinated by the interior decoration of the mosque. Istanbul’s one of the best-known mosque complex from 1609. The Hippodrome; constructed for the Roman chariot races. It was the center for civil events, riots and victories. Beautified by the Egyptian Obelisk, the Serpentine and Constantine columns. Continue to Hagia Sophia; the church of “Divine Wisdom”. Justinian built this masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in 6th century as a church.

Afternoon visit the Topkapı Palace. Main residence for 25 Ottoman Sultans for almost 400 years. Today this outstanding example of Ottoman Palace architecture and a very famous museum hosts one of the world’s biggest china collections together with the treasury of Ottoman Sultans, including 8-pound emeralds and the
84- carat Spoonmaker diamond.

Dinner own arrangements.

DAY3 (B, D)
Departure for the Peninsula where we arrive after a 5 hour drive (includes a coffee stop in Tekirdağ). Check in at the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

DAY4 (B, L, D)
After breakfast we drive along the Dardanelles where the ill-fated naval action of 18th March 1915 took place. On our way to Helles we pass through the main Turkish supply line of Soğandere and make a brief stop at the Şahindere Monument and graveyard, location of one of the many “behind the lines” Turkish hospitals.
We then continue, passing the French section near Kereviz Dere to reach the main landing beaches of April 25th: S beach and the Turkish monument (Abide), V Beach with the Seddülbahir Fortress, the Turkish redoubt strategically covering both V and W beaches –today the location of the Helles Monument- and W Beach with the “six VCs before breakfast”.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant on V-beach overlooking the pier where the River Clyde was “docked”.

After lunch and a brief visit of Skew Bridge & Redoubt Cemeteries and the vineyard in the centre of the line, we will continue to the left flank with X beach, Pink farm and Twelve Tree Copse. (*)
Before returning to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay, we pay a visit to the extraordinary “Sami Mutlu” collection in Alçıtepe (Krithia).

(*) Time, weather conditions & participants’ abilities permitting we can organize a short walk up to Ghurkha Bluff (overlooking Y-beach) and the frontline in Gully Ravine OR a walk up “Archie Barber” (Alçıtepe Hill), the Hill that was to be taken on the 25th, but never was …

DAY5 (B, L, D)
Drive to beautiful Suvla with en route visit of the “Anafartalar Guns” and strategic Turkish trenches near Scimitar / W Hills.
After this “brief encounter with the enemy” we continue into Suvla Bay. Green Hill, Azmak and Hill 10 cemeteries are next on our list. Then we will examine the Suvla landings: the Suvla Harbors and –weather & road conditions permitting- the landing beaches at Nibrunesi Point and Lala Baba Cemetery. After lunch –packed luncheon- on the beach we travel past the ill-fated Hill 60, the Outposts of the August invasion and the “Sphinx” to Anzac.
Our visit starts here with the Cove itself and the three cemeteries located here: “Ariburnu”, “the Beach” and “Shrapnel Valley”. From there we continue to the Kabatepe Museum.
On to Lone Pine, where seven VCs were won, and tour the front-line Anzac positions: Johnston’s Jolly, Courtney’s & Steel’s and Quinn’s Post. (*)
Later in the afternoon we visit the important sites of the August offensive, the Nek -the site of the ill-fated attack of the Australian Light Horse, immortalized in the film ‘Gallipoli’-, Baby 700 and Chunuk Bair from where we have a superb view of all the features of the “Left Hook”, such as Rhododendron Ridge, the Apex, the Farm, Aghyl & Chailak Dere’s and Hill Q.
Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

(*) Time, weather conditions & participants’ abilities permitting we can organize a short walk down to 4th Battalion Parade Ground where one has a superb view of Plugge’s Plateau, The Razor’s Edge, Russell’s Top, The Nek, Pope’s Hill and Quinn’s Post.

DAY6 (B, D)
Day at leisure for individual sightseeing. We make the following suggestions:

Visit the Asian side: A tour that includes the Çimenlik Castle museum, Turkish defenses at Dardanos and Intepe –location of Asiatic Annie-, the French landing beaches at Kumkale and the ancient city of Troy.
The Irish connection: Climb Kireçtepe where the 10th Irish Division lost so many lives: from the harbors till Jepson’s post and the Turkish frontline.
Gully Ravine: Cover the Gully from beginning to end and return across the Spur strewn with trenches, incl. the famous “Eski line”.
Take a trip by 4 x 4 which coves all 3 main theatres: Helles, Anzac & Suvla and see dugouts & trenches, abandoned memorials, long forgotten guns and other relics the normal visitor does not get to see.
Gallipoli from the air: Take an aerial tour of the battlefields.

Farewell dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.