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FROM Ypres, PRIVATE WWI Battlefields Tour from Ieper


A Foreign Field Battlefield Tours/Passchendaeleprints.com Søren Hawkes


Discover the Ypres Salient from Ypres to Passchendaele on a private tour. Learn about the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, South African, and British soldiers attacked towards Passchendaele in 1917.


The Brooding Soldier



Discover the Ypres Salient on a private tour of the WWI Ypres Battlefields. Follow the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, South African, and British soldiers as they attacked towards Passchendaele in 1917. Tailor the tour to your interests and see the places that are important to you.

Meet your guide at the place of your choice, at your Ieper-based accommodation, or the Ieper railway station. If you have ancestors that fell in the battle, your guide will tailor the tour to include them, where possible.


Follow the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, South African, and British soldiers as they attacked towards Passchendaele in 1917. Learn about the history of the area and the battles that took place here.

See the memorial to the missing and the place where your guide's great uncle is commemorated. Follow the route of the soldiers as they fought in the Ypres Salient.



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Duration 4 hours

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Live tour guide

English

Pickup included

Ieper railway station Or at your Ieper based lodgings

Wheelchair accessible

Private group

from € 350 per group up to 4
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About this experience

Itinerary
  • Pickup location:
  • Ypres
  • Car
  • (10 minutes)
  • Caterpillar Mine Crater (Hill 60 B)
  • Guided tour, Walk (30 minutes)
  • Car
  • (5 minutes)
  • Sanctuary Wood Museum
  • Guided tour (50 minutes)
  • Car
  • (5 minutes)
  • Tyne Cot Cementery
  • Guided tour (50 minutes)
  • Car
  • (5 minutes)
  • The Brooding Soldier
  • Guided tour (20 minutes)
  • Car
  • (7 minutes)
  • John McCrae Dressing Station WW1 Flanders Fields Fame
  • Photo stop (35 minutes)
  • Essex Farm Cemetery
  • Guided tour (10 minutes)
  • Arrive back at:
  • Ypres
  • Main stop
  • For reference only. Itineraries are subject to change.
  • Highlights
  • Walk the original trenches at Sanctuary Wood & the massive mine crater of 1917
  • Visit Tyne Cot Cemetery and Wargrave with 12,000 war dead buried here
  • Ses where John McCrae wrote the iconic poem 'In Flanders Fields
  • See the Brooding Soldier memorial to the 1915 first ever German gas attack
  • Includes
  • Private 4-hour tour of the WW1 Ypres Battlefields
  • Tailored tour to include specific areas of interest related to ancestors who fell in battle
  • Meeting at the place of your choice in IEPER
  • Tour covers a route of 23 miles (37 km) of the Ypres Salient
  • Expert commentary and insights from a knowledgeable guide
  • Free Mineral Water
  • Museum entrance fee
  • Food

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