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Ypres Battlefields and Passchendaele Museum Full Day Tour 20% OFF
Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Europe
$225.94
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Overview
The Ypres Battlefields and Passchendaele Museum Full Day Tour offers an immersive journey through one of history's most significant battlefields. Led by a knowledgeable guide with extensive local expertise, this 7-hour tour promises a profound exploration of the area.
- 🏛️ Visit the Sanctuary Wood Museum to see rare 3D battlefield photographs, an extensive collection of Great War artifacts, and walk through preserved British trench systems. Note that the museum is closed on Mondays, but alternative trenches will be visited.
- 🌹 Explore the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest British and Commonwealth war grave cemetery in the world, featuring 12,000 graves and the Tyne Cot Memorial wall honoring 35,000 missing soldiers.
- 🕊️ Learn about the iconic Canadian monument "The Brooding Soldier," which commemorates Canadian soldiers lost in the gas attacks of 1915, set in a beautiful memorial garden.
- ⚰️ Experience the Langemark Cemetery, the second largest German cemetery in the area with 44,000 burials, showcasing a different atmosphere influenced by the Nazis of WW2.
- 🩹 Visit Essex Farm Cemetery to discover the story of the wounded evacuation process and the memorial to Lt Col John McCrae, including the grave of underage soldier Valentine Strudwick.
- 🏺 Tour the world-class Passchendaele Museum featuring replica British and German trenches, an underground dugout experience, and an immersive room dedicated to the Battle of Passchendaele.
- ⛰️ Walk over Hill 60, known as 'The Murder Hill,' to explore its preserved battlefield, bunkers, and mine craters, while discussing the legendary fighting from 1915 to 1917.
- 💣 Discover the awe-inspiring Caterpillar Crater, the best-preserved site of the 19 underground mines blown by British and Commonwealth tunnellers on June 7th, 1917.
- 🥪 Enjoy a light sandwich lunch with drinks included, ensuring you stay refreshed throughout the tour.
- 🚍 Benefit from public transportation options nearby, making it convenient to join this enlightening experience.
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Ypres Battlefields and Passchendaele Museum Full Day Tour
Pickup included
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 7 hours
- A light sandwich lunch is included with drinks
- Guide is also the driver
Meeting point
Wait at the front entrance to Ypres Rail station by 9.45 am. I will be parked in a black mini bus marked Ypres Battlefield Tours in orange letters.
Return details
Wait at the front entrance to Ypres Rail station by 9.45 am. I will be parked in a black mini bus marked Ypres Battlefield Tours in orange letters.
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Sanctuary Wood MuseumA visit to the excellent Sanctuary Wood museum to see its unbelievable collection of rare 3D original battlefield photographs, huge collection of Great war artifacts, weapons and uniforms and to walk through its extensive preserved British trench system. Closed on Mondays but we visit alternative trenches
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Tyne Cot CemeteryAfter driving through the battlefields of Passchendaele we arrive at the beautiful Tyne Cot cemetery, with its 12,000 graves its the largest British and Commonwealth war grave cemetery in the world. At the rear of the cemetery is the Tyne Cot Memorial wall which contains the names of a further 35000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who are listed as missing with no identified grave. A beautiful place of reflection and remembrance.
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The iconic Canadian monument and gardens "The Brooding Soldier" commemorates the Canadian soldiers lost in the gas attacks of 1915. Here we will learn of the gas attacks of 1915 and the history of chemical warfare in the Ypres Salient. Arguably the most iconic memorial in the Ypres Salient set in a beautiful memorial garden.
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Langemark CemeteryThe second largest German cemetery in the area, with 44,000 burials Langemark has a very different atmosphere to the British and Commonwealth cemeteries. Its design was heavily influenced by the Nazis of WW2, some of which is in evidence today . The mass grave in the centre of the cemetery is of mind blowing proportions. This site is one of the 'must see' sites in the area. Prior to your tour why not purchase a copy of the book, Studentenfriedhof to Soldatenfriedhof, written in English it gives you a fascinating insight into the history of the cemetery and is the go to history of the cemetery.
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Essex Farm CemeteryA visit to the preserved dressing station bunkers to learn of the wounded evacuation process and the memorial to Lt Col John McCrae to hear the story of the In Flanders Fields Poem and its influence on remembrance today. We will also visit the grave of Valentine Strudwick killed at the age of 15 and learn the story of underage soldiers in the Great War.
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Passchendaele MuseumA visit to the world class Passchendaele museum, including replica British and German trenches, underground replica dugout experience and its new Battle of Passchendaele immersive room. The museum focuses on the Battle of Passchendaele and its combatants. Always a popular stop on the tour, the museum is being updated ready for 2025. A fabulous visit.
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Hill 60Named 'The Murder Hill' by British Soldiers we walk over its hallowed preserved battlefield, bunkers and mine craters. Hill 60 is today an official war grave as the remains of many soldiers and tunnellers lay concealed beneath its surface. The story of the terrible fighting at Hill 60 is legendary, with its terrible casualty rate and very compact battlefield men where often separated here by only a few meters of ground. We discuss here the fighting of 1915 and 1917, the underground war and also the fighting on the hill once again in WW2
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The story of the battle of Messines Ridge and the war underground at the site of the awe inspiring Caterpillar crater. Of the 19 massive underground mines blown by the British and Commonwealth tunnellers on June 7th 1917, the Caterpillar Crater is the best preserved of them all. Breathtaking in its scale and beauty it is in complete contrast to the horrors that took place there during the Great War.
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Ypres Battlefields and Passchendaele Museum Full Day Tour 20% OFF
Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Europe
$225.94
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!