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TOUR C: 16
Days / 15 Nights -All Around Turkey
Istanbul, Gallipoli, Ephesus, Fethiye, Olympos Mountain,
Pamukkale, Konya, Cappadocia, Istanbul
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Eceabat, Canakkale |
Day 1
Arrival to Istanbul, transfer to Istanbul Hotel or
similar.
Check in to hotel,
Free day
Day 2
( B, L, D )
09:30 After breakfast sightseeing tour for Istanbul
(Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, St. Sophia Museum, Grand Bazaar)
16:00 Departure from Istanbul to Canakkale
22:00 Arrival in Canakkale, check in to youth
hostel.
22:30 Beach Party and overnight
Day 3 ( B, LB*, D )
09:00 After breakfast departure for The Battlefield
tour, visiting Kabatepe War Museum, Brighton Beach, Anzac
Cove, Long Pine Australian Memorial, the original tunnels,
The Neck cemetery, Chunuk-Bair New Zealander Memorial.
16:00 Return to hostel, free time
20:00 Dinner
22:00 Departure and cross the Dardanelles to
Eceabat by ferry-boat to go to Anzac Cove
(Because of 10'000 of Australian and New Zealander
Tourists, we have to be at the ceremony area as earliest
as possible)
Day 4
( BB*, LB* )
05:30 Dawn Service
Breakfast and lunch boxes will be served by our company
before we reach to Anzac cove.
11:30 International and national ceremonies, -
Australian & New Zealander
15:00 Return to Eceabat
16:30 Departure for Seljuk
23:30 Arrival to Seljuk, check in to Pinar Hotel or
similar.
Day 5
( B, L, D* )
10:00 After breakfast tour for Ephesus and House of
Virgin Mary.
16:00 End of the tour, return to hotel, dinner.
Day 6
( B, D )
10:00 After breakfast, drive to Fethiye.
16:00 Arrival and check in to yacht to cruise to
Olympos
Welcome on board.
We will have dinner on board and stay overnight at Fethiye
Marina.
Day 7
( B, L, D )
Sailing true outside of the Fethiye Gulf.
We will stop on the bays for swimming and snorkeling.
Day 8
( B, L, D )
Sailing on the way to Olympos.
We will stop on the bays for swimming and snorkeling.
Day 9
( B, D )
10:00 After breakfast, check out from boat,
transfer to Olympos Mountain.
12:00 Check in to Turkmen tree houses.
Free day on the beach
Day 10
( B, D )
09:30 After breakfast, drive to Pamukkale,
15:30 Arrival to Pamukkale, check in to Kocak Hotel
or similar.
Day 11 (
B, L, D )
10:00 After breakfast Pamukkale sightseeing tour.
Visit the thermal travertine pools and Hierrapolis Ancient
City
15:00 End of the tour, return to Pamukkale.
Day 12
( B, L )
09:30 After breakfast drive to Cappadocia via Konya.
12:30 Arrival and visit the Konya City. This city
is the motherland of whirling dervishes. Their chief
called Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi past his life in this city,
as well this city was the capital of the Kingdom of
Anatolian Seljuks.
16:00 Drive to Goreme, Cappadocia.
20:00 Check in to hotel.
Day 13
( B, L )
09:30 After breakfast visit the Northern region of
Cappadocia.
Goreme, Urgup, Uchisar, Zelve, Avanos, Pasabagi, Pigeon
Valley will be the points that we will visit in northern
Cappadocia.
17:00 End of the tour, return to hotel.
Day 14 ( B, L )
10:30 After breakfast drive to Istanbul by visiting
the Southern region of Cappadocia.
Derinkuyu Underground City, Selime Monastery, Valley of
Ihlara, are the points that we will visit in the south.
15:00 End of the tour, drive to Istanbul.
24:00 Arrival to Istanbul, check in to hotel.
Day 15 ( B
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Free day and stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 16
( B )
Transfer to Istanbul airport.
Including:
All transportations and transfers with new model Mercedes
Benz or Volvo coaches
All ferry tickets to cross Dardanelles.
15 Nights of Accommodation ( 2 nights in tree houses & 2
nights in Intepe Youth Hostel )
03 Nights of Yacht Cruise from Fethiye to Olympos
1 Full day Istanbul sightseeing tour
1 Full day Gallipoli Peninsula tour
Guidance and assistance during the Anzac Day ceremonies
1 Full day Ephesus - House of Virgin Mary Tour
1 Full day Pamukkale - Hierapolis Tour
1 Full day Konya City Tour
2 Full day Cappadocia Tour
All tours are with English speaking professional tourist
guides
All Museum tickets mentioned in the itinerary,
All meals mentioned in the itinerary
All taxes
***B = Breakfast, - BB =
Breakfast Box, - L = Lunch, - LB = Lunch Box, - D = Dinner
PRICE LIST of TOUR C
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Price per
person in a double room |
439
GBP |
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Single
supplement |
150
GBP |
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Extra bed
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160
GBP |
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Anzac Day
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New
Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every
year to honor members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
(ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. It
now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in
military operations for the country. Anzac Day is also observed in
the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tonga.
Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action
fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World
War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps, whose soldiers were known as Anzacs. Anzac Day remains one
of the most important national occasions of both Australia and New
Zealand. This is a rare instance of two sovereign countries not
only sharing the same remembrance day, but making reference to
both countries in its name.
Anzac Day was gazetted as a public holiday in New Zealand in 1920,
through the Anzac Day Act, after lobbying by the New Zealand
Returned Soldiers Association,the RSA. In Australia at the 1921
State Premiers' Conference, it was decided that Anzac Day would be
observed on 25 April each year. However, it was not observed
uniformly in all the States.
With the coming of the Second World War, Anzac Day became a day on
which to commemorate the lives of Australians and New Zealanders
lost in that war as well and in subsequent years. The meaning of
the day has been further broadened to include those killed in all
the military operations in which the countries have been involved.
Dawn service
After the First World War, returned soldiers sought the
comradeship they felt in those quiet, peaceful moments before
dawn. With symbolic links to the dawn landing at Gallipoli, a dawn
stand-to or dawn ceremony became a common form of Anzac Day
remembrance during the 1920s.
In Turkey the name "ANZAC Cove" was officially recognized by the
Turkish government on Anzac Day in 1985. In 1934, Kemal Ataturk
delivered the following words to the first Australians, New
Zealanders and British to visit the Gallipoli battlefields. This
was later inscribed on a monolith at Ari Burnu Cemetery ( ANZAC
Beach ) which was unveiled in 1985 and the words also appear on
the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives.
You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore
rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies And the
Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of
ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away
countries... Wipe away your tears ! Your sons are now lying in our
bosom and are in peace after having lost their lives on this land
they have become our sons as well."
In 1990, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing,
Government officials from Australia and New Zealand as well as
most of the last surviving Gallipoli veterans, and many Australian
and New Zealand tourists travelled to Turkey for a special Dawn
Service at Gallipoli. The Anzac Day Gallipoli Dawn Service has
since attracted upwards of 15,000 people. Until 1999, the
Gallipoli Dawn Service was held at the Ari Burnu War Cemetery at
Anzac Cove, but the growing numbers of people attending resulted
in the construction of a more spacious site on North Beach, known
as the "Anzac Commemorative Site" in time for the year 2000
service.
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