our third day we visited gallipoli to see the ANZAC memorial. gallipoli is a beautiful peninsula to the
northwest of the dardanelles strait which connects the black sea and the sea of marmara to the mediterranean. during WWI the french and british attempted to attack the cardanelles in order to capture istanbul, a battle the lasted for many months resulting in stalemate. about 250,000 soldiers died on both sides. the ANZAC (australian and new zealand army corps) memorial honors the thousands of australian and new zealand soldiers that were killed during the campaign. we sat on the shore as i teacher told us the story of the soldiers that were honored there and we got to see some of the graves. there are graves up and down the gallipolli peninsula from the attack on the dardanelles.
from a ferry that we took to get to TROY
we danced a traditional dance with these girls and they loved the white girls taking pictures of them, obviously.
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