Gallipoli

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Left Istanbul this morning and drove alongside the Dardanelles to the Gallipoli peninsular. First visited Anzac Cove, where the Aussies first landed in April 1915. Walked along the narrow beach with the high dunes behind and wondered at the folly of attacking at that spot when flat land was so close by. A very moving experience. Then up to Lone Pine and the Australian cemetery. For so many lives lost, so little ground made. Then onto Chunuk Bair and the New Zealand cemetery, the highest point and furthest inland made, even if only for a few days, during the campaign.

Leaving Gallipoli, we travelled across the Dardanelles to Canakkale for our evening stop

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Photos

Anzac Cove
On the beach at Anzac Cove

Anzac Cove
Looking towards the high dunes and the 'Sphinx'

Lone Pine
Australian cemetery

Chunuk Bair
Looking across to Suvla Bay

Chunuk Bair
Kemal Attaturk monument

Canakkale
View from the ferry on the Dardanelles