- Battlefield Tours with Søren
Contact 00 ( 32 ) 0471 661 351
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Bespoke Tour Plan Options
Option 1: Whole Day Ypres Salient Tour:
100 euro per person, 3 guests 75 euro per person, 3 + even more discounts
Please note this is a bespoke all day door to door tour.
If you have a larger group discounts may apply so please contact me with the details
9/10am Pick up at Hotel/Menin Gate Ypres
· Hill 60 (SCENE OF 'TUNNELLERS WAR')
· Messines village scene of fierce fighting in 1914 and 1917
· New Zealand Memorial Messines and German bunkers
· Pool of Peace mine crater
· Scene of Xmas Truce 1914
· Ploegsteert Memorial and cemeteries
· Irish Peace Park
(We will have to see how many of the above sites we can see before lunch!)
12 or 1 pm LUNCH AT HOOGE CRATER CAFÉ AND WW1 MUSEUM or ANZAC REST AT POLYGON WOOD
(Lunch not included, at Hooge a filling sandwich/salad + Drink + Museum visit is 10 euro)
· Hooge Crater ( where liquid fire was used for the first time, also reconstructed German trenches and original German pill box )
*one euro donation payable to the honesty box on site helps with the upkeep of the site
· ESSEX FARM
(WHERE JOHN McCRAE COMPOSED 'IN FLANDERS FIELDS')
· THE BROODING SOLDIER MEMORIAL
(SCENE OF THE FIRST GAS ATTACK 22nd APRIL 1915)
· LANGEMARK GERMAN CEMETERY
(SCENE OF THE 1914 'MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS')
· TYNE COT - BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE
(THE WORLDS LARGEST CWGC CEMETERY)
· 17.00 / 17.30 hrs return to Ypres
Option 2: North Salient (4 Hours) 50 euro per person
· Hill 60 (SCENE OF 'TUNNELLERS WAR')
· Hooge Crater ( where liquid fire was used for the first time, also reconstructed German trenches and original German pill box )
*one euro donation payable to the honesty box on site helps with the upkeep of the site
· ESSEX FARM
(WHERE JOHN McCRAE COMPOSED 'IN FLANDERS FIELDS')
· THE BROODING SOLDIER MEMORIAL
(SCENE OF THE FIRST GAS ATTACK 22nd APRIL 1915)
· LANGEMARK GERMAN CEMETERY
(SCENE OF THE 1914 'MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS')
· TYNE COT - BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE
(THE WORLDS LARGEST CWGC CEMETERY)
Option3: South Salient (4 Hours) 50 euro per person
· Hill 60 (SCENE OF 'TUNNELLERS WAR')
· The grave of Peter Pan at VOORMEZEELE No 3 CEMETERY
· Messines village scene of fierce fighting in 1914 and 1917 (London Scottish Memorial)
· Messines Church & Crypt (where Adolf Hitler was treated for his wounds in WW1)
· Spanbroekmolen 'Pool of Peace' mine crater (massive mine crater)
· Scene of Xmas Truce 1914 at Ploegsteert Wood
· Ploegsteert Memorial and cemeteries (shot at dawn/ twins / and England Rugby Captain)
· Irish Peace Park Messines ( Memorial to the Protestants and Catholics from Ireland who fought and died side by side)