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Full Day Private Tour to WWI Passchendaele Base in Ypres

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Overview

Check out our Full Day Private Tour to Passchendaele, Ypres, Based WW1!

Learn about how World War I played out in Belgium and see many related key sites with this customisable tour. You'll visit Messines Ridge where the Christmas Truce took place, pay your respects at a couple of different cemeteries, and see many of the key areas where battles involving Commonwealth troops played out. As this is a private tour, you can customise it based on your interests.

Leave us the details, and we will take you on an unusual adventure that creates memories that withstand the test of time!

Activity location

Messines Ridge NZ memorial
- N314
- 8957, Mesen, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium

Meeting/Redemption Point

Messines Ridge NZ memorial
- N314
- 8957, Mesen, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium

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Dates

Travellers

Private tour for 1 passenger

8h
English

Private transfer: Includes private transport from/in your hotel in the Yper.
Private guide: Enjoy the company of a private guide in Yper.
Pickup included

Language options: English

Starting time: 9:00AM

Price details

CA $3,139.68 x 1 AdultCA $3,139.68

Total

What's included, what's not

Private transport
Professional local guide in Ypres
Pick-up and drop-off in the city centre or hotels
Air-conditioned vehicle
Lunch

Know before you book

Specialised infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
To receive a full refund, travellers may cancel up to 72 hours before the experience start time in the local timezone. No refunds will be given after that time period.

Activity itinerary

Messines Ridge NZ memorial

2h
Admission ticket included

Here we will here the storey of the Battle of Messines & visit mine craters, visit the scene of the Christmas Truce, the crypt where Adolf Hitler was treated for his wounds.

Hooge Crater Cemetery

Here we will visit Pat Bugden VC the 20 year old recipient of the Victoria Cross also you'll be standing on the iconic Menin Road directly alongside where the Australian gun pits were for the assault on Passchendaele.

The Black Watch

This site is where the Australian HQ was in September 1917, you'll also learn about earlier actions on the very same ground in Nov 1914.

Battle of Polygon Wood

Here will walk through the woods and visit concrete bunkers that were here when the Australian soldiers captured during the battle, we will visit the cemetery and the Australian 5th Division monument.

Hill 60

Here you will here the storey of Captain Woodward and the 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy place a massive mine here that was blown at 3.10am on the 7th June 1917, we will see that crater.

Broodseinde (Pass by)

Driving through following the line of the Australian advance.

Tyne Cot Cemetery

Here we will visit the worlds largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery 12,000 soldiers are buried here, only 3,000 have names, two Australian VC recipients are buried here.

John McCrae Site

Here we will see the hospital site where Lt Col John McCrae composed the iconic poem 'In Flanders Fields'.

Menin Gate Memorial

Here you'll hear the storey of the Menin Gate, how it came about and some of the stories behind the 55,000 names listed a missing here.

Zonnebeke

Driving through Zonnebeke in the line of the Australian advance.

Sanctuary Wood Museum

1h
Admission ticket included

Here we will see poignant original WW1 trenches and a quaint ww1 museum.

Location

Activity location

Messines Ridge NZ memorial
- N314
- 8957, Mesen, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium

Meeting/Redemption Point

Messines Ridge NZ memorial
- N314
- 8957, Mesen, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium

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