Private Full-Day Canadian Vimy and Somme Battlefield Tour from Brussels

Private Full-Day Canadian Vimy and Somme Battlefield Tour from Brussels

Stand in the tunnels where Canadian troops stood before the assault on Vimy Ridge and visit the Canadian and German trenches. You will see the scattered landscape of the Newfoundland Memorial Park in Beaumont Hamel. Thiepval Memorial, Courcelette Canadian Memorial will also be visited.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Kortrijk Station, Stationsplein, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium

We will meet at the train station of Kortrijk, after the tour I will bring you back to your hotel in Central Brussels

Duration: 10 minutes

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

You will visit the Memorial, walk in the Canadian and German trenches, see the newly built visitor centre and will go down in the Grange Tunnel where Canadian troops stood hours before the battle on 9 April 1917.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Courcelette Canadian Memorial, Nord Route Nationale, 80300 Courcelette France

Styand on the battlefield where Canadian troops fought at the fall of 1916.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Lochnagar Crater, Route de la Grande Mine, 80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle France

Stand near the crater, it is the result of an underground explosion.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, Rue de l'Eglise, 80300 Beaumont-Hamel France

Walk along the trenches in which the New Foundland troops were on 1 July 1916, stand near the Caribu, walk along the Danger tree, Y Ravine and the Memorial to the 51st Highland Division before heading back to Brussels.

Duration: 1 hour