The Yser Front 1914-1918 for groups: Ypres, Passchendaele and the Trench of Death

Day 1 : Journey to Ypres

• Morning departure from the location of your choice.
• Drive to West Flanders and arrival in Ypres in the late morning.
• Visit to the In Flanders Fields Museum, housed in the Cloth Hall (on request).
• Stroll around the Grote Markt and St Martin's Cathedral.
• Check-in at the hotel in Ypres.
• Dinner in the hotel restaurant (on request).
• In the evening, the Last Post ceremony under the Menin Gate, held every evening since 1928.

Day 2 : The Ypres Salient and Passchendaele

• Guided tour of the Salient battlefields with a specialist guide (on request).
• Stop at Essex Farm, where John McCrae wrote the poem 'In Flanders Fields'.
• Moment of remembrance at the German military cemetery in Langemark.
• Visit to the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke and its reconstructed dugouts (on request).
• Visit to Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world.

Day 3 : The Yser Front

• Drive to Diksmuide and visit to the Trench of Death, Belgian trenches preserved along the Yser (on request).
• Visit to the Yser Tower museum (on request).
• In the afternoon, drive to Nieuwpoort and visit to the Westfront Nieuwpoort visitor centre, at the foot of the King Albert I Monument (on request).
• Group dinner in a restaurant in Ypres (on request).

Day 4 : Poperinge and return

• Drive to Poperinge and visit to Talbot House, a rest house for British soldiers (on request).
• Stop at Mount Kemmel and its French memorial.
• Arrival back in your region in the evening.