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By Ploegsteert Sector Battlefield Experience

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Free cancellation available
Price is $619 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 12h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • 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.

Activity location

  • Canadian National Vimy Memorial
    • Chemin des Canadiens, Route D55
    • 62580, Givenchy-en-Gohelle, France, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Canadian National Vimy Memorial
    • Chemin des Canadiens, Route D55
    • 62580, Givenchy-en-Gohelle, France, France

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What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Private transportation
  • Inclusions
    Bottled water
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    Hotel pickup and drop-off in Lille or Arras
  • Inclusions
    Lunch
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    Transport by air-conditioned minivan
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    Guide
  • Exclusions
    Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • A minimum of two people per booking is required

Activity itinerary

Canadian National Vimy Memorial

  • 3h
You 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 Centre

The Ploegsteert Memorial (Pass by)

You will drive along Ploegsteert Memorial and Hill 63.

Messines Ridge (Pass by)

Driving through Messines and the battlefields of June 1917.

Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) Canadian Memorial

  • 30m
Stand at Hill 62 or Mount Sorrel where Canadian troops fought at the spring of 1916.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Memorial

  • 15m
You will stand at Frezenberg where the Patricia's were nearly wiped out in May 1915

Tyne Cot Cemetery

  • 30m
The largest CWGC's cemetery.

Saint Julien Memorial

  • 15m
Seeing the Brooding Soldier Memorial where the Germans used gas for the first time.

Essex Farm Cemetery

  • 15m
Where John McRae wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields".

Ypres Cloth Hall

  • 1h
You 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

  • 1h
You will attend the daily Last Post under the Menin Gate before heading back to your hotel.

Location

Activity location

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    Canadian National Vimy Memorial
    • Chemin des Canadiens, Route D55
    • 62580, Givenchy-en-Gohelle, France, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Canadian National Vimy Memorial
    • Chemin des Canadiens, Route D55
    • 62580, Givenchy-en-Gohelle, France, France

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