Description

Day 1 : Somme

We drive the whole front line of the 1st July 1916. Visit of Vimy Ridge and the tunnels, Delville Wood, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of The Somme, Beaumont Hamel and the trenches Ovillers, Lochnagar mine crater at La Boisselle, Contalmaison, Fricourt, Mametz Wood, Pozieres, Beaumont Hamel, Albert.

included pick up Lille or Ypres, lunch, entrée fees, accommodation in *** hotel Ypres

Day 2 : Ypres Salient

Visit to restored German trench system at Bayernwald, the "Messines mines" along the Ridge, Messines, New Zealand Memorial Park, Irish Peace Park,Ploegsteert (Plugstreet Wood), 1914 Christmas Truce field at St Yvon, in St. Eloi, The Bluff, Hill 60

Lunch at Hooge Crater and visit of the trenches

Visit to the Menin Road, Hell Fire Corner, Clapham Junction, the Gheluvelt Plateau, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge, Tyne Cot Cemetery at Passchendaele,. Yorkshire trenches. Ceremony at the Menin Gate. Possible to lay a wreath.

included breakfast, entrée fees, lunch, accommodation in *** hotel Ypres

Day 3 : Visit of Poperinge

Visit of Poperinge and Talbot House, Lysenthoek visit of the places where soldiers spent rest and recreation, visit of the evacuation route of the wounded at the visit center near the cemetery Lysenthoek.
German Cemetery at Langemark. Essex Farm cemetery and the Yorkshire trenches where John McCrae wrote his famous poem: In Flanders Fields.
Visit of Ypres, the St Georges church of England and the Flanders Fields museum.

included breakfast, entrée fees, lunch, accommodation *** hotel Ypres

Day 4 : Visit Vimy & Loos Visit of Le Touret memorial of the missing near Neuve Chapelle.
In Loos the memorial of the missing reminds us the terrible battle of 1915.
Visit of Fromelles, Aubers Ridge museum and Phaesant Wood cemetery.
Tour finish at 17.00 in Lille or Ypres.(or at request)

Included breakfast, entrée fees, lunch drop off Lille or Ypres included