Our Flanders Fields Tour is an idividual tour ! We don’t fill up the van with people from different hotels ! One group one van so we can give our customers all the attention they deserve! The tour starts at 1 pm to take us to:
+ German cemetery at Langemark
+ Brooding Soldier Memorial
+ Tyne Cot Cemetery and Museum
+ t’Hooge : Original trenches and craters
+ Essex farm : advanced dressing station
+ Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper
+ the Last Post ceremony at the Menin gate at 8 pm
+ back in the hotel around 9.20 pm
Last Post Ceremony
since 1928 this ceremony is being performed by members of the fire brigade every evening at 8 pm
Menin Gate
The ceremony is performed at the Menin Gate, which id the place where the allied forces left the city to go to battle
Menin Gate at night
The mening gate carries the name of over 55.000 commenwealth soldiers lost in battle during the first world war
German Cemetery at Langemark
Also called the student cemetery and the place where the first gas attack was launched
Tyne Cot Cemetery
The largest commonwealth cemetery
Linnen Hall in Ieper
Fully restaured it now houses the Flanders Fields Museum
Ieper during WWI
in the whole city not one house was standing! This is a vieuw of the linnen hall
