Travel dates
"The Great War"
Travel dates:April 24 - April 28, 2006
August 07 - August 11, 2006
The Great War was thought to be the war to end all wars, yet it turned out to be the starting point for an even more brutal, global conflict. In contrast to the mixed attitudes to history among the German people, World War I still occupies an important place in the memory of the allied nations. Every year, for instance, more than half a million Britons visit the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme.
It is therefore high time to revisit this important era in the history of the nations.
It is therefore high time to revisit this important era in the history of the nations.
| Day 1 |
Travel from Cologne to Ypres (B) Visit the museum “In Flanders Fields” located in the famous Cloth Hall. Cicular tour across the battlefield from Langemark to Passchendaele. Visit the Passchendaele Museum and Hill 62. Visit the Menin Gate and listen to the Last Post performed by the Ypres Fire Brigade. Check in to Novotel Ieper Centrum |
| Day 2 |
Travel to Messines and on to Mount Kemmel Continue to Vimy View the Vimy battlefield and monument on Hill 145 Excursion of the Grange Tunnel. Continue to Peronne Check in to Hotel Mercure Azzevillers Dinner at hotel |
| Day 3 |
Visit the museum Historial de la Grande Guerre in Peronne Travel to Albert and to the Lochnagar Crater at La Boisselle Continue to Beaumont Hamel und the New Foundland Memorial Cross the Ancre, visit the Ulster Memorial Tower, the Schwaben Redoubt and the impressive British Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. Travel to Verdun and check in to Hotel Cocq Hardi Dinnner at Hotel |
| Day 4 |
Travel across the battlefield of Verdun with visits and views of these locations: Mémorial de Verdun, village Fleury, Bayonet Trench, the Forts Douaumont, Tavannes und Vaux, the villages of Vaux und Douaumont, the Verdun Ossuary, Colonel Driant's Command Post and Tomb at the Caures Wood. Dinner at Hotel Cocq Hardi |
| Day 5 |
Travel to the left bank of the river Meuse to the Argonne Woods and to Vauquois with its Kaisertunnel, Hill 304 und Hill Mort Homme View the firing position of „Langer Max“ at the Warphemont Wood Return to Cologne |