Vimy and Flanders Fields Canadian Battlefield Tour from Lille
Vimy and Flanders Fields Canadian Battlefield Tour from Lille
Vimy and Flanders Fields Canadian Battlefield Tour from Lille
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Explore Canadian World War I history in Vimy and Belgium on this battlefield tour from Lille or Arras. Follow a guide through Vimy’s WW1 trenches and discover sites of interest including Hill 145, the Canadian Passchendaele Memorial, the St. Julien Memorial, and the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery. See where John McRae wrote his famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. Then, finish your tour at the Last Post ceremony in Ypres. This tour of Canada’s WW1 sites includes round-trip travel from Lille or Arras.
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Canadian National Vimy Memorial
3 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeYou will stand at the memorial, will walk in the Canadian and German trenches, go down in the Grange Tunnel and will see the newly built visitor CentreThe Ploegsteert Memorial(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeYou will drive along Ploegsteert Memorial and Hill 63.Messines Ridge(Pass by)
Admission Ticket FreeDriving through Messines and the battlefields of June 1917.Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Canadian Memorial
30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeStand at Hill 62 or Mount Sorrel where Canadian troops fought at the spring of 1916.Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Memorial
15 minsAdmission Ticket FreeYou will stand at Frezenberg where the Patricia's were nearly wiped out in May 1915Tyne Cot Cemetery
30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe largest CWGC's cemetery.Saint Julien Memorial
15 minsAdmission Ticket FreeSeeing the Brooding Soldier Memorial where the Germans used gas for the first time.Essex Farm Cemetery
15 minsAdmission Ticket FreeWhere John McRae wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields".Ypres Cloth Hall
1 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeYou will stand on the main square of Ypres seeing the Cloth Hall, the Cathedral and some other nice builddings. You will have some free time to spend in town.Last Post ceremony
1 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeYou will attend the daily Last Post under the Menin Gate before heading back to your hotel.
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Ploegsteert Sector Battlefield Experience
NZD 874
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