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The ANZAC Florida
Holidays Bus
takes much same route as the normal Florida Holidays Hop On Hop Off
bus but to spend the day at Gallipoli for the Dawn
Service and other services it takes an extra day. So the
first 3 days go like this :-
Day 1 Tuesday 24th
April -
Gallipoli Peninsular
Welcome to
Istanbul. We meet at the Florida Holidays office in Istanbul for an
early morning departure to the WW1 battlefields of
Gallipoli. Along the way we will stop for a meal break
and a chance to stock up on supplies and rations to see
you through the night and the following day. Once we
arrive at the Gallipoli peninsula, we will collect our
guide who will take us on a tour of the battlefields
before we arrive at our final destination of Anzac Cove
to secure a good spot on the grass for the long night
ahead.
Day 2 Wednesday 25th
April ANZAC Day at Gallipoli
Awake before
sunrise to the Anzac Dawn service and commemorate our
fallen fore fathers on this special day. The Gallipoli
battlefields are well sign posted so you can walk amidst
the various cemeteries, trenches and memorials on your
way to Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair to attend the
Australian, Turkish and New Zealand memorial services. (Dawn
service pass end here) Late afternoon you will meet up
with the Florida Holidays Bus again to head back to Istanbul or
continue down the Aegean coast towards Kusadasi or
Selcuk.
Day 3 Thursday 26th
April Selcuk/Kusadasi
From here you have
the choice of continuing with the Florida
Holidays bus on the
Silk Trail pass. Check our
Hop On Hop Off itineraries for more details. Be sure
to also check out
Gulets and other great add-on options for your pass.
ANZAC Florida
Holidays bus
includes
•
English speaking onboard tour leader giving you tips and
crucial info (no guiding)
• Transportation in a fully air-conditioned,
non-smoking coach
• Guided Gallipoli tour
The Florida
Holidays hop-on hop-off bus (the Florida
Holidays Bus) is
Turkey's only hop-on hop-off bus network.
It's a popular service pitched at budget
travellers and backpackers,
departing every destination several times a week in an
anti-clockwise direction from Istanbul.
For more
information about the Florida
Holidays Hop On Hop Off bus
click here. We have come up with the following
special ANZAC Florida
Holidays Bus passes which include ANZAC Day at
Gallipoli.
Florida Holidays
Travel also have a wide range of fully guided tours
which include Dawn service at ANZAC Cove, ANZAC Day at
Gallipoli, accommodation and more.
For more information about these tours
click here.
Get the most out
of your experience
There are probably
3 or 4 great Gallipoli tour guides in the whole of
Turkey so if a company tells you that their tour guides
are Gallipoli experts, well, you decide the truth? The
fact is, most Turks have never heard of ANZAC Cove. Do
some reading about Gallipoli before you come for ANZAC
Day and you'll have a far greater appreciation of the
commemoration. Also remember that ANZAC Day is a huge
event and every year things just go wrong. Don't let a
cold cup of tea dampen your ANZAC spirit of
commemoration.
ANZAC Day
snapshot, what's it like at Gallipoli?
After the guided
tour of the Gallipoli battlefields – the stories, the
trenches, the grave yards - you will possess a much
deeper appreciation of what happened at Gallipoli. At
the end of the Battlefields tour around 5pm, you are
taken to the site of the dawn serviceto get a good spot.
The local Turks also sell a great variety of Turkish
Kebabs, pancakes and fast hot foods.
We arrive at the
dawn service around 5pm to get a good spot on the grass,
already, there are several hundred people about. There
are big screens and music to entertain you and to thank
you, the people who have made the pilgrimage to
Gallipoli for ANZAC Day. War veterans, military personal
and media are everywhere and the atmosphere is electric.
There is a unique feeling in the air, a celebration of
peace subdued by a cloud of commemoration.
Within 3 hours,
the site will appear like a sea of colour with thousands
of Aussies and Kiwis sprawling out on the grass, warmly
wrapped up sleeping bags, National flags and rugby tops.
Get a few hours rest/sleep on the grass because by 9pm
the MC will be asking you to squash forward to try and
make space for the thousands more people still to come.
The buzzing
atmosphere will permeate the whole night. Well before
the grey light of dawn signals the start of the dawn
service, speakers and entertainers begin their addresses,
folk songs and stories.
Please, take note
of this notice by the Australian Embassy by
http://www.embaustralia.org.tr/anzac/geninfo.htm A
brief warning from the Australian Embassy website: "REMEMBER:
YOU WILL NEED TO GET IN EARLY TO BOOK ACCOMMODATION IN
THE CANAKKALE AREA FOR ANZAC DAY."
Australian Govt Announcement access Gallipoli ANZAC Day
2007
The Australian Dept of Veteran Affairs is making special
arrangements for those with special needs in an effort
to assist aged and infirm visitors. Read more about this
at :
http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/anzac/gallipoli01.htm#special_needs
Also note from their website : "Travel by passenger
car to these services is not allowed and on completion
of the Dawn Service, official coaches will depart before
public coach departures to meet Turkish protocol
requirements."
THE ODE OF
REMEMBRANCE
They shall not grow old,
as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning,
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.
The shores of
Gallipoli are intensely significant to Australians and
New Zealanders, and in recent decades they've seen a
real healing and reconciliation between Australia, New
Zealand and Turkey.
Every year on ANZAC Day thousands of Australians make a
pilgrimage to the place now known as ANZAC Cove.
Florida
Holidays Travel's ANZAC
Day tours range from 5 to 15 days and cater for the very
budget to the easy traveller. Whether you only want to
commemorate ANZAC Day at Gallipoli or you want to
combine ANZAC Day with an unforgettable trip around
Turkey, we've got it covered.
For the more
independent minded travellers, Florida
Holidays Travel offer the
unique experience of combining a short ANZAC Tour with
the only
hop-on hop-off bus around Turkey.
Commemorate ANZAC Day with our
5-day tour 'The Cadet' and then see Turkey
at your own pace with our hop-on
hop-off bus .
Ataturk's
Reconciliation statement.
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 MEHMETS
TO US
WHERE THEY LIE SIDE BY SIDE HERE IN , THIS COUNTRY OF
OURS... YOU, THE
MOTHERS, WHO SENT THEIR SONS FROM , FARAWAY 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.'
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK (1881-1938)
Founder and first
president of modern Turkey and leader of Turkish forces
in the Gallipoli campaign. The words above is Ataturk's
tribute to those ANZACs who did not return from
Gallipoli.
Florida
Holidays Travel also have a wide range of fully guided
tours which include Dawn service at ANZAC Cove, ANZAC
Day at Gallipoli, accommodation and more.For more
information about these tours
click here. |
