ORDER OF THE VISITS

Brighton Beach
(The intended landing place)
Beach Cemetery
(On the southern tip of ANZAC Cove where you will see the grave of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey, a famous soldier of ANZAC)
ANZAC Cove
(The landing place of the first wave of ANZAC troops and home to up to 30,000 soldiers during the campaign)
Ariburnu Cemetery (on the northern tip of ANZAC Cove and the place of the First ANZAC Day Commemorative Service )
ANZAC Commemorative Site
Lone Pine Cemetery and Australian Memorial
(Site of the successful attack and capture of Turkish trenches by the Australians during the August offensive)
Johnston’s Jolly
(where you'll visit original Allied and Turkish trenches and tunnels)
Trenches and Tunnels
57th Regiment Turkish Memorial
The NEK
(Site of the famous Light Horse charge depicted in the 'Gallipoli' movie)
Walkers Ridge
Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial
(Captured by the New Zealanders during the August offensive, the highest point captured during the entire campaign)
For those who had family members who fought and died and were commemorated at Gallipoli, the Tour Guide will help you locate the headstone or name on the panels on the memorial walls.
The tour concludes with transport back to Canakkale and drops off at the hotel door in the late afternoon.

WALKING ROUTE

1. Shrapnel Gully Cemetery
Shrapnel Valley (or Shrapnel Gully) runs from the west side of the Lone Pine Plateau, behind Maclagan's Ridge, south-westwards to the sea near Hell Spit (Queensland Point).

2. Maclagan’s Ridge
The ridge running from Plugge's Plateau down to Hell Spit. Named after the lanc honour of Colonel Sinclair Maclagan, D.S.O. Maclaurin's Hill.
From the Maclagan’s Ridge observe the view of Hell Spit, ANZAC Cove, ANZAC Gully

3. Plugge’s Plateau Cemetery
Plugge’s Plateau Cemetery contains the graves of twenty-one men who died in the Gallipoli Campaign during the First World War, of whom four are unidentified.

From the cemetery observe the view to the Ariburnu Cemetery ( Northern tip of ANZAC Cove), The North Beach, ANZAC Commemorative Site, Anafarta Plain, Salt Lake, Suvla Bay, Sphinx, Reserve Gully, Rest Gully, Razor Edge

4. "Russell’s Top"
"The Top" was the highest point within the ANZAC perimeter and commanded views along most of the Turkish line to the south of Baby 700. Ariburnu Cliffs

5. Walker’s Ridge Cemetery
Walker's Ridge to Mule Gully, just north of and below the "Sphinx," a prominent sharp-edged hill that jutted out westward towards the sea.

6. Russell’s Top ANZAC Trenches
Frank Anderson's 1915 diary continues the entries about fighting with the 10th Light Horse Regiment, now at Russell's Top, an area that became known as The Nek.

7. Turk’s Point (Machine Gun Point)

8. The Nek Cemetery
The Nek is the track leading along the narrow spur from Russell's Top to Baby 700, and the cemetery stands on a ridge with Pope's Hill on the southwest and Malone's Gully on the northwest.

9. Water Tanks
Water Tanks in Shrapnel gully filled each night with water.

10. Quinn’s Post
Quinn's Post, named after Major Hugh Quinn, 15th Battalion (Queensland) AIF, was one of the most dangerous places at Anzac.

11. Courtney’s Post
Courtney's Post was the center post of three - Quinn's, Courtney's, and Steele's - that occupied precarious, but critical, positions along the lip of Monash Valley, in the heights above ANZAC Cove.

12. Steele’s Post
Named after Major Thomas Steele of the 14th Battalion, Steele's Post was the southern-most of three - Quinn's, Courtney's, and Steele's - that occupied precarious, but critical, positions along the lip of Monash Valley, in the heights above ANZAC Cove.

13. MacLaurin’s Hill
Depicts the communication trenches and tracks along MacLaurin's Hill at Gallipoli.
We will follow the below destinations.

14. Johnston’s Jolly

15. Lone Pine Cemetery

16. Artillery Road

17. Shell Green Cemetery

18. Clark’s Gully