Private Vimy and Belgium Canadian Battlefield Tour from Bruges

Itinerary
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Stop At: Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Chemin des Canadiens Route D55, 62580 Vimy France

We are leaving towards Vimy Ridge where you will stand near the Memorial and have a view on the Douai plain. You will walk in the Canadian and German preserved trenches, go down in the Grange Tunnel, where Canadian troops stood hours before the battle and see the newly built visitor centre.

Duration: 3 hours

Pass By: The Ploegsteert Memorial, Rue de Messines Ploegsteert, Comines-Warneton 7782 Belgium

See Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing

Stop At: Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Canadian Memorial, Hill 62, Canadalaan, 8902 Ieper, Belgium

Stand on Hill 62 where Canadian soldiers fought at the spring of 1916.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: PPCLI memorial, Oude Kortrijkstraat 75, 8900 Ieper, Belgium

Stand at the place, Frezeberg, where the regiment was nearly wiped out in May 1915.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Tyne Cot Cemetery, Tynecotstraat, Zonnebeke 8980 Belgium

Is the largest CWGC's cemetery, 12 000 burials and the Memorial is bearing the names of 35 000 soldiers who have no known grave.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Saint Julien Memorial, Saint-Julien, Langemark, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium

See the "Brooding Soldier" erected where the 1st gas attack took place at the spring of 1915.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Langemark Cemetery, Klerkenstraat, Langemark Belgium

See a German Cemetery and feel the difference between this ones and the allied cemeteries.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Essex Farm Cemetery, east side of the N369 Ieper - Boezinge Rd, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium

Where John McRae wrote the poem " In Flanders Fields".

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Ypres Cloth Hall, Grote Markt 34, Ieper (Ypres) 8900 Belgium

Stand on the Main Square and see the Cloth Hall, the Cathedral and some other nice buildings in Ypres. You have some free time to wander in town.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Last Post ceremony, Menin Gate, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium

You will stand under the Menin Gate to attend the Last Post. After this service I bring you back to your hotel.

Duration: 1 hour