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Newest Review: ... for the ferry it's a five minute walk down the main road to the terminal. Much of Canakkale centre is fairly traffic free except for access and so it's a nice place to walk. A couple of kilometres out of town (you can walk or take a dolmus from the centre) is the Archaeology Museum which displays items found during the excavations at Troy. It's quite interesting but not really as satisfying as visiting Troy itself. There are also items unearthed at another site, Assos. We didn't visit the Army Museum (more to do with general Turkish military history than the Gallipoli campaign) but we did stop at the Cimenlik Kalesi, a fortress built in t... more

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Canakkale: A touch of the Dardanelles (1110 words)
by - written on 09/01/09 (Very useful, 213 readings)
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The Turkish town of Canakkale (pronounced Shana -kalay), situated some 350 Kilometres from Istanbul is a bustling place that caters essentially to the needs of those tourists visiting the Gallipoli Battlefields just across the Dardanelles, the straits that join the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea. It also gets a number of visitors who are visiting nearby Troy, though many visitors to that site come only for the day from resorts on the coast. Thanks to the high number of young Aussies and Kiwis who come to see the graves of their ancestors, Canakkale is an extremely lively resort, quite different to other towns in northern Turkey. Turkey has an extensive and ... Read the complete review

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