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ANZAC DAY TOURS 2008

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Our experience
We operate tours to the Gallipoli battlefields every day of the year, in fact, we even have a branch office near Gallipoli at Canakkale. Every year since 1997, we are one of the biggest tour operators for ANZAC Day. Our head tour guides are the best Gallipoli tour guides and will brief and train our 50 or so other licensed guides that we need to employ for ANZAC Day.
Get a good spot at the dawn service
Following the afternoon tour of the Gallipoli battlefields, we go straight to the site of the dawn service to get a good comfortable spot on the grass near the front, by 9pm the grass areas is full and people are squashing in up the back, around the sides, wherever they can fit not a comfortable way to spend the night.
Your price guarantee
If you want the cheapest ANZAC Day tour then you are picked up the wrong brochure but just consider one thing are you really going to risk your once in a lifetime ANZAC experience for less than the cost of a good night out? We wont give you something for nothing, but we guarantee to deliver what you paid for.
Responsible travel
When you travel with V-GO you can be sure you are putting something back into the local Turkish economy - our head office is in Fethiye. 
Your peace of mind
V-GO Travel holds a Group A TURSAB (Turkish Tourism Authority) license, which offers you, the client, maximum peace of mind.
Want to see Turkey at your own pace on a budget?
 Why not combine a short ANZAC tour with a V-GO hop-on hop-off pass around Western Turkey. We recommend our 5 day Cadet tour that gets you to Kusadasi, before hopping on a Silk Trail pass which covers all the highlights of Western Turkey. If you are on a really tight budget then jump on the first V-GO bus departure to get you to the dawn service.
Our tours have a range of inclusions:
  • Early arrival to the dawn service (around 5pm on the 24th)
  • Twilight Bosporus cruise party (except Cadet tour)
  • ANZAC Day at Gallipoli Commemorative gift
  • Transportation in a fully air-conditioned non-smoking coach
  • Native English speaking tour guide for the duration of the tour
  • Anzac Day memorial services at Gallipoli
  • All accommodation as per itinerary in 3 star hotels
  • Daily breakfast usually with several other meals along the way
  • A big dinner/breakfast/lunch box for the overnight vigil at the Dawn Service
All prices are per person and based on share accommodation basis.
There is no single supplement available.

V-GO Yachting & Travel 2008 ANZAC Day Tours
Tour Name Tour    Summary
"The Lance Corporal" Duration :
 4 days
Dates : Begins 23rd April and ends 26th April
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Gallipoli.
"The Digger" Duration :
 5 days
Dates : Begins 23rd April and ends 27th April
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul and Gallipoli plus Bosphorus cruise
"The Cadet" Duration :
 5 days
Dates : Begins 24th April and ends 28th April
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Kusadasi
Highlights : Istanbul, Gallipoli, Pergamum, Ephesus.
"The Warrant Officer" Duration :
 7 days
Dates : Begins 22nd April and ends 28th April
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Selcuk - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Gallipoli, Troy, Pergamum and Ephesus
"The Corporal" Duration :
 8 days
Dates : Begins 22nd April and ends 29th April
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Kucukkuyu - Kusadasi - Bursa - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Gallipoli, Pergamum, Ephesus, Bursa plus Bosphorus cruise.
"The Captain" Duration :
 8 days
Dates : Begins 19th April and ends 26th April
Route : Istanbul - Bursa - Kusadasi - Kucukkuyu - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Gallipoli, Ephesus, Pergamum, Bursa plus Bosphorus cruise
"The Sergeant" Duration :
 11 days
Dates : Begins 22nd April and ends 2nd May
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Kucukkuyu - Kusadasi - Pamukkale - Cappadocia - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Gallipoli, Ephesus, and Bergama plus Bosphorus cruise.
"The Major" Duration :
 11 days
Dates : Begins 16th April and ends 26th April
Route : Istanbul - Cappadocia - Pamukkale - Kusadasi - Kucukkuyu - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Gallipoli, Ephesus, Troy, Bergama plus Bosphorus cruise.
"The Brigadier" Duration :
 15 days
Dates : Begins 13th April and ends 27th April
Route : Istanbul - Cappadocia - Antalya - Fethiye - Pamukkale - Kusadasi - Kucukkuyu - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Bosphorus, Cappadocia (x2), Pamukkale, Gallipoli, Ephesus, Troy, Pergamum plus Bosphorus cruise.
"The Colonel" Duration :
 15 days
Dates : Begins 22nd April and ends 6th May
Route : Istanbul - Gallipoli - Dawn Service and ANZAC Day ceremonies - Kusadasi - Pamukkale - Fethiye - Antalya - Cappadocia - Istanbul
Highlights : Istanbul, Bosphorus, Gallipoli, Pergamum, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Termessos, Cappadocia x 2 plus Bosphorus cruise.
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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 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 let a cold cup of tea dampen your ANZAC spirit of commemoration.
ANZAC Day snapshot, whats 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 service and given a huge bag of food; sandwiches, biscuits, chocolates, drinks and more. 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 Kiwi' s sprawling out on the grass, warmly wrapped up in 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.

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 2006
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/gallipoli_access.htm
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.

V-GO 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.

Ataturk 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 MEHMET 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 tribute to those Anzacs who did not return from Gallipoli.