Top Ypres Full-day Tours

Gain insight into World War I history and visit famous battle sites around the Somme on this full-day Canadian WWI battlefield tour from Ypres. Delve into tunnels used by British and Canadian soldiers before the Battle of Vimy with your guide. Gaze over the battle-torn landscape, where mine and shell craters dot the terrain. Visit Memorial de Vimy, and the Courcelette Canadian Memorial, and honor the fallen soldiers. Afterward, visit Thiepval Memorial to the Missing then finish at the Beaumont Hamel New Foundland Memorial Park.

Take a thorough tour through the history of the Ypres Salient and the battles of World War I that took place there with this small-group tour from Ypres. Travel with your guide to important memorials, cemeteries, and museums related to soldiers from different Allied nations, including the Christmas Truce memorial and Sanctuary Wood Museum. Places on this shared tour are limited to eight people.

Explore the battlefields of the Ypres Salient from a wide selection of starting points in Belgium and France on this private tour with flexible pickup policies. Travel with your guide to historically significant sites of the Ypres Salient to the Allied Forces, visiting places such as Hooge Crater Cemetery and Hill 60, before finishing with the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres. Five travelers is this tour’s limit.

Rather than try to navigate your own way through the Ypres Salient and find the important sites, let your guide do that for you on this private full-day tour from Ypres. Travel around the battlefields to cemeteries, monuments, and memorials, including the Brooding Soldier and Christmas Truce Memorial, and at the Sanctuary Wood Museum learn the local World War I history. This private tour is limited to eight people.

I am a well established British Battlefield tour guide living in the Ypres Salient with over 12 years experience in guiding groups of all sizes. I am also a published author having written two books, one on the history of Langemark German Cemetery and one concerning the clearing of the battlefields post WW1. Between the years of 2014 and 2016 i was chairman of the Royal British Legion Branch in Ypres. I conduct my tours at a relaxed pace giving my clients plenty of space and time to explore the sites visited and contemplate the events that took place on the very ground they are standing. As this tour is a private tour i can be flexible in timings and also sites visited. On booking you will have full contact with myself in order to discuss any requirements you may have. We want you to get as much out of your day with us as possible. Ypres Battlefield Tours are your perfect partner for your battlefield experience. I look forward to meeting you. Roger