Visit Ypres with a guide
A guided tour is definitely the best way to explore and realise your surroundings’ true past fully. Here are 3 guided tours that are definitely worth considering while visiting Ypres.
Flanders Battlefield Tours
Flanders Battlefield Tours organises guided tours for individual travellers and small groups. The guide portrays very well the sacrifice that has been made for freedom. The company is ran by passionate guides, who have great personal knowledge about the World War and are kept very well up-to-date about the latest archaeological discoveries and development.
Boeschepestraat 29 – 8970 Poperinge
T. 0032 (0)57 360 460
info@ypres-fbt.com
http://www.ypres-fbt.com/
Salient Tours
Salient Tours gives the individual traveller a choice to go close to the battlefield and to walk amongst the Flanders poppies. The tour gives a real inside into the daily life of troops, it really show you how they survived in the often god forsaken trenches. The tour also takes you to the cemeteries where so many fallen heroes are buried.
Meensestraat 5 – 8900 Ieper
T. 0032 (0)57 214 675
tours@salienttours.com
http://www.salienttours.com/
Frontline Tours
If you would like to visit the Flanders Fields in a bit of comfort, you could chose Frontline Tours with which you will experience a top class guide in Mercedes minibuses with air-conditioning. The tour guide presents a passionate, inspiring and often distressed tour through the Ypres Salient. The tour gives an unforgettable experience for the younger generations to experience the true fears but also joys of war, a war that might be almost 100 years ago but is still very present in the every day life of many.
Willebeek 3 – 8956 Kemmel
T. 0032 (0)57 859 935 – M. 0032 (0)474 367 608
info@frontlinetours.com
http://www.frontline-tours.com/
If you would rather explore Ypres and the surrounding areas privately without a guide; a great tip is to purchase a guidebook so you still get some essential information about the region and the terrible and often shocking stories that have occurred.
The In Flanders Fields Route
The In Flanders Fields route guides you through most historic points in the with poppy covered Flanders Fields, the route is approximately 80 km long, so it is ideal to explore with a car. The route starts in Ypres with the most important stops on the route being; the Essex Farm in Boezinge (the John McCrae site), the Langemark Soldatenfriedhof, the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, the French cemetery Saint-Charels de Potyze, Messines, Poperinge with Talbot House.
You can purchase this guide book at the Tourist Office.
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