While most Australians choose to honour our wartime history and celebrate the digger spirit at local Anzac Day activities, up to 10,000 Australians and New Zealanders travel to Gallipoli in western Turkey each year for April 25. They go to take part in services at the site where that truly defining chapter in Australian history — the Gallipoli landings — actually took place.

Located on the Dardanelles, a beautiful stretch of Turkish coastline, Gallipoli has plenty to offer visitors interested in this poignant episode, including the beach where our troops landed, well-preserved trenches and battlegrounds and the memorials, graveyards and museum that have been established to honour the dead.

April 25, 2005, marks the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. To commemorate this historic event, group travel specialist Albatross Travel is offering a tour package exclusively to NRMA Members.

Join our NRMA Member group and experience first-hand Anzac Cove, Beach Cemetery and the moving Anzac Day dawn service, as well as the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and artefacts of exotic Istanbul, the ancient city of Troy, historic bazaars, traditional Turkish hospitality and first-class hotel accommodation.

The NRMA Members’ Gallipoli Tour package includes:

• All travel arrangements, including Singapore
  Airlines economy return airfares from Sydney to Istanbul and transfers.
• Six nights of premium accommodation.
• The services of Australian and local guides plus all sightseeing fees.
• A fascinating educational evening hosted by a war historian.
• A top-quality commemorative fleece jacket worth $50 for each Member on the tour.

Albatross is also offering NRMA Members the opportunity to extend their Gallipoli trip with an additional tour to the Western Front, retracing the steps of the Anzacs from the grand boulevards of Paris to the Gothic squares of Ypres.

Prices, which include most meals, are $3698 per person for the Gallipoli-only NRMA Members tour, and $6522 for the Gallipoli/Western Front NRMA Members tour (including airfares between Istanbul and Paris, transfers, first-class hotel accommodation, guides etc).

To find out more detailed information about this exclusive NRMA Member offer, call Albatross Travel on 1300 135 015 or email info@albatrosstravel.com and quote your NRMA Membership number.

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