Western Front
12 Day Tour, 3 to 14 July 2017 From $4400.00 per person twin share Tour Highlights:
Tour Inclusions:
• Beginning in Paris – Visit the nationally important Great War sites of Verdun (France)
• Meet the tour in Paris
• Villers-Bretonneux (Australia), Vimy (Canada) and Delville Wood (South Africa)
• A small group guided by experienced battlefield historians
• The Glorious Cathedral at Reims
• Focusing on Australia and other Commonwealth sites as well as the US & Germany
• Beautiful city of Amiens where you will be staying for 5 nights as you explore the Somme battlefields • Newfoundland Memorial & wartime trenches at Beaumont Hamel • Thiepval & battlefields in around Pozieres • Belgium we will pay our respects at Fromelles, the scene of Australia’s largest single day loss of life • The Newest Commonwealth War Grave cemetery at Pheasant Wood • The Gorgeous walled town of Ypres where you will be staying for 4 nights • Explore Flanders Fields • Visit German war cemeteries and the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world at Tyne Cot
• 11 Breakfasts / lunch / dinners
• Lay a group commemorative wreath at the Menin Gate • Depart the tour at Lille International Railway Station for your onward journey or Global Group Travel can assist with further travel arrangements for you.
About Apollo Battlefield: Mike Kelly, a twenty-year battlefield guide veteran, leads a team of experienced and passionate war historians and battlefield guides - from Australia and the UK. Apollo Battlefield Guide focuses on tours created to explore WW1 and WW2 history - and specialises in the Western Front.
• Lay a wreath at magnificent Menin Gate • Discover wartime bunkers at Hill 60 & Polygon Wood & visit Essex Farm where John McCrae worked and was inspired to pen him immortal poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. FOR MORE INFORMATION/DETAILED ITINERARY - PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST:
Global Group Travel | Email: info@globalgrouptravel.com.au | Phone: (02) 8197 0401 Apollo Battlefield Guide: www.apollo-battlefield-guide.com
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