Somme & Ypres Tour - 5 nights

This tour combines all of the elements of both the Somme and Ypres tours. A little more intensive as this tour is 5 nights as opposed to the combined total of 6 nights for the individual Somme and Ypres tours. Slightly earlier starts and finishes ensures nothing is missed!

Day 1 Morning departure to France by ferry or Eurotunnel Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux. Check into our accomodation.	Day 2 After breakfast, leave the hotel and head to Beaumont Hamel where we'll spend the morning visiting: Serre Road No 2 Cemetery Beaumont Hamel British Cemetery, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders memorial The Sunken Lane View where the Hawthorn Ridge mine footage was filmed from Newfoundland Memorial Park
	After Lunch: Ulster Tower Memorial Thiepval Memorial Lochnagar Crater Ovillers British Cemetery End of day 2 and back to the hotel.
Day 3 Leave the hotel after breakfast and drive to Albert where we will visit the Somme 14-18 museum Dartmoor British Cemetery Welsh Memorial at Memetz Wood Caterpillar Valley Cemetery	Day 4 Breakfast and check out of the hotel. We'll then drive to: Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial Notre Dame de Lorette French Cemetery-the largest French Military cemetery in the world where the remains of over 40,000 soldiers lie.
Lunch then in the Afternoon: South African Memorial and museum at Delville Wood New Zealand Forces Memorial Australian 1st Division memorial and Tank Corps Memorial at Pozieres End of day 3	Lunch The Afternoon: Leave the Somme area for Ypres Messines Ridge Cemetery and museum Talbot House museum Brandhoeck Cemetery and the grave of the only double VC winner of WW1-Captain Noel Chavasse Check in to hotel
Day 5 Breakfast then the short drive to the 49th (West Riding) Division memorial and Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station-the site where John McCrae wrote one of the most famous poems of the Great War “In Flanders Fields”. The Remainder of the Morning: Railway Wood and the Royal Engineer’s memorial and the Liverpool Scottish memorial stone Hill 62 museum and preserved trenches Hooge Crater Cemetery and museum followed by lunch in the museum cafe.	Day 6 Check out of hotel The Morning: “In Flanders Fields” museum Passchendaele Museum Return home late afternoon by ferry or Eurotunnel
The Afternoon: Polygon Wood Buttes New British Cemetery New Zealand memorial 5th Australian Division memorial Canadian memorial “The Brooding Soldier” Langemark German Cemetery Tyne Cot Visitor centre and cemetery Return to hotel 2000 Last post ceremony at the Menin gate