After breakfast, we will drive to the Legendary City of Troy or The famous Helen of Troy. If you are familiar with Hector, Ajax, Agamemnon, Paris, Helen of Troy, Dardanelles, Hellespont, the Trojan horse, and Odysseus in Homer's Iliad, Then you must not miss visiting the legendary city of Troy. History comes alive here, and you can imagine the glory of the earlier days. The city of Ancient Troy, Turkey, was built at a strategic point on the Dardanelle Straits, which connects the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea.
Troy forms a basis for Homer's Iliad, written some 500 years after the Trojan War. Ancient Troy holds a unique position in history, literature, and archaeology. Ancient Troy or Troja in Turkish and its location has been written about by ancient Greek and Latin Authors for centuries. However, the location of ancient Troy wasn't identified until relatively recently. The site of the ancient ruins of Troy became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998. Even better if you've just seen the Brad Pitt movie.
On this tour, you will find all your answers. After Troy sightseeing, then we will drive to Canakkale to see the Wooden Horse. Hollywood's gift horse that brings hordes back to Troy, Tourists descend on the sleepy Turkish town of Canakkale at all hours to gawp at the Hollywood star - a 12-tonne fiber-glass horse, held together with bolts, ropes, and nails, which dominates the seafront. It was a gift from Warner Brothers. After the Canakkale, we will cross to Dardanelles straight to the Europe side by ferry for lunch and Gallipoli.
Gallipoli Battlefields
You will be able to appreciate the natural beauty of the peninsula while at the same time knowing its sanctity and solemnity of incredible knowledge of the Turkish and Anzac conflict, mostly sticking to the facts of the campaign. You will visit all of the important sites related to Australians and New Zealanders and also the Turkish Cemetary. During your Gallipoli tour, you will visit the Gallipoli peninsula and Gallipoli battlefields in one day.
A Gallipoli is a pilgrimage place for the Turks, Australians, and New Zealanders; the Gallipoli peninsula is in northwest Turkey and is home to 20 Turkish cemeteries, at least 40 Allied war cemeteries, and several memorials.
The Gallipoli campaign, also known as the Dardanelles campaign, was the Battle of Gallipoli. Visit Gallipoli Peninsula and Gallipoli battlefields, such as Brighton Beach; Allied and Turkish trenches at Johnston's Jolly, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair, Shrapnel Valley, Anzac Cove, North Beach, The Nek, and The Helles Memorial.
The bloody battles fought here in 1915 are still alive in Turkish and foreign memories and hold important places in the Turkish, Australian, and New Zealand national narratives. Today, the Gallipoli Peninsula battlefields are protected landscapes covered in pine forests and fringed by idyllic beaches and coves after the Gallipoli tour overnight in Canakkale.