With an early start we headed from Istanbul to the Gallipoli peninsula for a BBQ lunch at Kabatepe with all the other ANZAC day tours.
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| Paul at Kabatepe after lunch with a lovely view in the background |
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| Massive statute at Kabatepe A short bus ride later we were at Anzac cove where we waited a loooonnnggg time to be let into the Anzac service. As the security plans had changed this year there was a longer wait than had been expected so after a good four hours in the hot beaming sun, we finally managed to get in and secure our place in the front row of the stands. |
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| The trek to the memorial service - The Donkey.. I mean Paul :) |
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| The hundreds of people waiting to get in - we had to go through a security check first (Paul managed to get his photo taken with the army guy who was searching him, must have been for a magazine or something...) |
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| Anzac Cove - Memorial service (we made it!) |
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| Ashlea all rugged up - getting ready for the looonnggg night ahead. Unfortunately we couldnt sleep very much as we were in the stands so it was a very long night as we tried to manoeuvre around to try and rest our heads on each other.. very uncomfortable! |
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| The terrain that the Anzac soldiers had to deal with |
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| The morning after the memorial service After the memorial service finished, we dropped off our sleeping bags etc so we could trek up the mountain in order to see the Australian memorial service and the New Zealand memorial service. |
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| Speaks for itself... I hope |
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| The beautiful Turkish memorial site |
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| A statute on the way to the New Zealand memorial site (Chunuk Bair) |
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