Gallipoli Walking Tour 2025
Our Gallipoli tours have been proving popular for over 20 years, during this time we have endeavored to dig deeper and go further consistently amending and tweaking our itinerary to offer something new, whilst appealing to anyone visiting for the first time.
Tour Dates: 11/16 May 2025
Price Per Person: £1850:00
*Gallipoli Association Members joining us trigger a £100 donation to the GA
Non flight option: £1550:00 – (meet in Istanbul or Canakkale)
Deposit: £300 (Flight Cost,ATOL approved)
Single Supplement – £150:00
Optional Extention to Imbros is £250pp (£25 Single Supplement).
Hotel: Grand Anzac, Canakkale – Bed, Breakfast,
Lunches and Museums included
Winery visit included
Boat Trip to Anzac included
Welcome drinks & map pack on arrival in Canakkale included
This tour starts and ends at Heathrow Airport unless meeting us in Istanbul
Key Information
For 2025 we are thrilled to be offering a purely walking tour to the Peninsula in the company of fellow enthusiasts and authorities.
This tour, led by authors and experienced Gallipoli guides Clive Harris & Steve Chambers, we are undertaking a completely new series of walks covering the highlights of the campaign, conducted at a relaxed pace and with scope to visit spots not offered on other tour itineraries. We feel this tour offers the most comprehensive tour available to the Peninsula, as part of a like minded intimate group to reach seldom visited spots via mule tracks, dried up gullies and quiet beaches.
In addition 2025 sees the opportunity to extend your tour for an optional 6th night and to visit the important Island of Imbros to see a number of key historical sites linked to the campaign.
*Please note that your guides are extremely experienced in Guiding the Gallipoli Campaign and the group size and dynamics of this tour are such that if there is an alternative area of the Peninsula you would like to visit, let us know, this is entirely possible and encouraged*
*This is a walking tour but the distances are not excessive, our average day involves around 6/7 miles over undulating ground but at a pace to suite the needs of the group, if you have any concerns please feel free to give us a call*
The walks will be led by either Stephen Chambers and Clive Harris, both are GBG Badged Guides and published authors, alongside them an experienced, English speaking local guide makes up the unrivalled guiding team.
As in previous years, we are located in the Grand Anzac, Canakkale. A charming central Canakkale hotel with well equipped rooms with A/C, TV en-suite bathrooms and bar facilities. Bed and Breakfast basis, with packed lunches or cafe lunches included. *Evening meals not included
Scheduled Turkish Airline flights from Heathrow
Itinerary
Scheduled flights from London to Istanbul. Transfer to Gallipoli by coach to the Hotel Grand Anzac in Canakkale.
This is a 4 hour transfer on a fully air-conditioned coach. We will stop off for a short snack/toilet break halfway through the journey.
All our transfer coaches have Wi-Fi and complimentary bottled water on board.
Monday 12 May 2025 – Anzac Day
The best way to study an amphibious landing is by boat. Our morning will be spent studying the Gaba Tepe from the sea before we come ashore to walk from Beach Cemetery, via Shrapnel Valley up to the heights of Plugges Plateau, the first ridge captured by the Anzac’s on 25 April 1915.
After lunch at a local restaurant, we will continue the Anzac advance from the Second Ridge at Lone Pine, to the furthest advance of the Australian and New Zealand troops on that first day of the landing. This walk will take us over Pine Ridge, down into Legge Valley and up onto the Third Ridge (Gun Ridge), the final objective of the covering force, ending the walk at Mustafa Kemal’s command post on the Scrubby Knoll.
Tuesday 13 May 2025– Helles Day
Beginning the morning on the top of Achi Baba, where we will experience panoramic views of the Helles battlefield, we will descend down to the beaches. Next stop is Erturgal Fort, trenches and the Ottoman memorial to Sgt Yahya, all overlooking V Beach. We will visit V Beach CWGC Cemetery, the spit of rock where the River Clyde came shore, all under the shadow of Seddulbahir Fort. We will then advance up through the village to Doughty-Wylie’s Grave, and then the Helles Memorial.
After lunch at V Beach Café, we will walk from the French artillery battery onto Hunter-Weston Hill and then Lancashire Landing CWGC Cemetery. From there we will visit W Beach to recount the story of the 6 VC’s Before Breakfast before ascending onto Hill 114 to explore the old base-camp of the MEF.
We end the day with visit to the Bengodi/Asmadan Vinyard for a tasting flight (foot passage ferry option for non-winers).
Wednesday 14 May 2025 – Gully Ravine Day
We will spend the whole day exploring Gully Ravine, starting at the Ottoman Nuri Yamut Memorial we will walk across the seaward cliffs to Gurkha Bluff, just above Y Beach. We will continue along Gully Spur, visiting Geoghegan’s Bluff and the football field for lunch. We will then continue to follow the ravine to Gully Beach. Exiting the ravine we will walk along the West Krithia to finish the day at Pink Farm CWGC Cemetery.
Thursday 15 May 2025 – Suvla Day
We will begin the morning on the once hotly contested Scimitar Hill (Hill 70) before following the Ottoman trench lines on to the top of the W Hills where we will get excellent views of both the Suvla and North Anzac battlefield. Walking down to Hetman Chair and Dead Man’s Gully, we will finish at Chocolate and Green Hill.
After a packed lunch at the museum in Buyuk Anafarta, we will walk from the Jandarma Memorial to Kidney Hill, Caribou Hill and then to Azmak CWGC Cemetery, also visiting the new Ottoman cemetery site on Kiretch Tepe. We will finish the day at Suvla Point and General Stopford’s HQ.
Friday 16 May 2025
Return to Istanbul or, Optional extension to the island of Imbros to explore the sites of Sir Ian Hamilton’s GHQ, Kephalos ‘K’ Beach, the Australian Field Bakery site, RNAS airfields and the journalist camp to name but a few.
Saturday 17 May 2025
Return to Istanbul for those who stayed for the optional day to Imbros.
Booking
Deposits can be paid via BACS transfer (IBAN if overseas) both account details are on the bottom of the booking form.
If you wish to pay by credit card, drop us an email and we will send you the relevant link.
Cheques can be made payable to “Battle Honours Ltd”