• adjustment of the selected sites to your country of origin or to your specific interests - visit to ancestor’s grave
Please contact us in advance
• drop-off at your hotel/hostel/B&B (or other place as agreed) (around 17.00 pm)
→ Included : quality lunch (restaurant), entrance fees, tour information pack,
comfortable transportation (airco, drinks, binoculars, umbrellas),
driver guide, insurance
→ Price all-inclusive tour : 65 € (60 € < 26 year) (custom made tours possible, ask for it)
• visit to Tyne Cot Cemetery at Passchendaele or other memorial on request
• Last Post Ceremony (20.00 pm) at the Menin Gate in Ypres (info www.lastpost.be)
• drop-off at your hotel/hostel/B&B (or other place as agreed)
→ Included: comfortable transportation (airco, drinks, umbrellas) , guidance, insurance
→ Price : 35 €
• Active family tour - educational tour for kids
• Retrace the footsteps of your ancestor
• Special remembrance tour (e.g. in honour of your ancestor)
• Bunker explorer tour
• Ypres Salient tour adjusted to your country of origin or to your specific interests
• lot’s of possibilities - please contact me in advance for a custom designed tour
→ Key to successfully customizing your Flanders Fields tour depends on information you provide us. Tell me about your objectives, date of departure, duration of your visit, specific interests, any other services you may need.
→ We always strive to bring you outstanding value for money. Comfortable accomodation, comfortable transportation and good food are always a priority and can only contribute to what should become the trip of a lifetime.
Ypres Salient Tour
This popular battlefield tour takes you to the frontline around Ieper (called “Wipers” in WW1) where the Allies fought against the Germans for 4 years denying them the passage to the Channel ports in France.
The famous Menin Gate Memorial with its Last Post Ceremony, Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial at Passchendaele, Essex Farm (John McCrae - site) and the preserved battlefield at Hill 60 with the Caterpillar Crater nearby are some of the highlights of the day which are a “must -see” for first-time visitors.
Whether your interests are general, specific requests, or you want to visit your ancestor’s grave, we always adapt the tour to your interests and needs.
- Studentenfriedhof Langemarck (German Student Cemetery) : “Slaughter of the innocents”
- Brooding Soldier at Vancouver Corner : most impressive Canadian memorial in the Ypres Salient - 1st use of gas
- Tyne Cot Cemetery Passchendaele : largest Commonwealth War Cemetery in the world
- The Road to Passchendaele & Frank Hurley, the mad war photographer
- Polygon Wood : sacred Australian ground - The Zonnebeke Five (recovery of 5 Australian soldiers after 89 years
“ Lost in Flanders ” ) - Home of the underground war / Brothers in Arms : an extraordinary story
- Menin Road - Hooge Crater War Museum - Birr Cross Roads - Railway Wood - Hellfire Corner
- Hill 62 / Sanctuary Wood / private museum with a preserved WW1 trench
- Hill 60 : incredible witness of concentrated battles with the huge “Caterpillar” crater nearby - “ Beneath Hill 60 “
- Talbot House Poperinghe : every man’s club behind the lines
- Battle of Messines :New Zealand Memorial Park - Ireland Peace Park - minecraters 1917 - Pool of Peace
- Flanders Hills : Mount Kemmel & the Lettenberg shelters ( 5 dug-outs cut in to the bank)
- Ploegsteert (Plugstreet) Wood : the famous “Christmas Truce”
- In Flanders Fields Museum Ypres (Cloth Hall) or Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917
- Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing : 54,896 names of Commonwealth soldiers who died without graves
• introduction - briefing - orientation on map
• fully guided tour : selection of main sites out of the following list
