Western Front Battlefields

Western Front Battlefields

Understand more about the liberté the allies were fighting for as you absorb the culture of Paris before journeying westward to Flanders. Explore historic battlegrounds, memorials and significant military sites in the region with short stops and day trips.

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Western Front Battlefields

Western Front Battlefields

Understand more about the liberté the allies were fighting for as you absorb the culture of Paris before journeying westward to Flanders. Explore historic battlegrounds, memorials and significant military sites in the region with short stops and day trips.

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10 Days*

Destinations

ParisVersaillesFlandersAmiensVillers-Bretonneux

Learning Areas

Humanities and Social Sciences

*Extend your tour

Day 11: Paris extension

Your Adventure

1 Depart Australia
  • Board your flight Begin your journey to Paris, France.
2 Paris
  • Meet your Tour Director and check into your hotel
  • Paris city walk Île de la Cité, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Île St. Louis, Latin Quarter
    This city was made for walking. Stroll grand boulevards with sweeping views of the city, pristine parks with trees planted in perfect rows, and narrow streets crowded with vendors selling flowers, pastries and cheese. Then head to the Île de la Cité, a small island in the Seine, to see Notre Dame Cathedral.
  • Dinner in Latin Quarter
3 Paris
  • Paris guided sightseeing tour Arc de Triomphe, Champs Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, Opera House
    What's that huge white arch at the end of the Champs-Élysées? The Arc de Triomphe, commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 after his victory at Austerlitz. Your licensed local guide will elaborate on this, and other Parisian landmarks. See some of the most famous sites, including the ornate 19th-century Opera, the Presidential residence and the Place de la Concorde, where in the center you’ll find the Obelisk of Luxor, a gift from Egypt in 1836. Spot chic locals (and tons of tourists) strolling the Champs-Élysées. Look up at the iron girders of the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 World's Fair to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. See Les Invalides (a refuge for war wounded) and the École Militaire (Napoleon's alma mater).
  • Versailles guided excursion State Apartments, Hall of Mirrors, Gardens of Versailles
    The ultimate palace, Versailles was built by Louis XIII, and housed the royal family and its groveling court from 1682, when Louis XIV the Sun King moved in, to the French Revolution. Your guide will take you on an adventure to discover the State Apartments, Hall of Mirrors and the Garden of Versailles.
4 Paris
  • Louvre Museum visit The world's largest art museum, the Louvre is housed in a Medieval fortress-turned-castle so grand it's worth a tour itself. You walk through the 71-foot glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and added in 1989, and step into another world--one with carved ceilings, deep-set windows, and so many architectural details you could spend a week just admiring the rooms. The Mona Lisa is here, as well as the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory (the headless statue, circa 200 BC, discovered at Samothrace). The Louvre has seven different departments of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and antiquities. Don't miss the Egyptian collection, complete with creepy sarcophagi, or the collection of Greek ceramics, one of the largest in the world. (Please note the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays.)
  • Seine River cruise See the city from the water on an hour-long cruise along the River Seine. The Seine cuts right through Paris, dividing the city in half. See the Eiffel tower rising up on the Left Bank, the walls of the Louvre on the Right Bank. A guide will point out other monuments and architectural marvels as you pass, many of which are illuminated by clear white light at night.
5 Paris - Flanders
  • Travel to Flanders via WW1 sites
  • The Armistice Clearing visit On November 11, 1918, the Armistice was signed in the Compiegne Forest, bringing the First World War to an end. Today, step back in time and visit the exact replica of the railway carriage where the events unfolded.
  • Museum of the Great War visit
  • Lochnagar crater visit
6 Flanders
  • Mission Polygon Wood experience Polygon Wood, Mission Polygon Wood workshop, Memorial Museum of Passchendaele 1917 guided visit
    Mission Polygon Wood combines personal stories of fallen soldiers with activity tasks in Polygon Wood. The forest is a three-minute drive from the museum and belongs, together with Tyne Cot Cemetery, to the utmost important sites of the Ypres Salient commemorating World War I. In Polygon Wood, students are split up into smaller groups and use codes, carry out hands-on tasks and use British, Australian or New Zealand identity cards of fallen soldiers to find their way to the other side of Polygon Wood.
  • Passchendaele Museum guided visit Discover and experience the story of the First World War and the Battle of Passchendaele as students explore the interactive elements of the museum.
7 Flanders
  • Flanders sites Messine Ridge, Hill 60 visit, The Caterpillar, Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood) visit
    Throughout the First World War, hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought in the muddy landscapes that are now known as Flanders Fields. Today, thousands of those men still rest in Flanders Fields, Belgium, far from their homelands. They are remembered in the monuments, cemeteries, and places of learning that serve to commemorate their sacrifices.
  • In Flanders Fields Museum visit In Flanders Fields Museum presents the story of the First World War from the invasion of Belgium, to 4 years of trench warfare and peace in the region since. Visit the Museum and honor over 600,000 who fell.
  • Last Post ceremony at Menin Gate
8 Flanders - Amiens
  • Travel to Amiens via Fromelles and the Somme
  • Fromelles sites Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial visit
    Explore Fromelles with your tour director and see Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery, and visit V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial.
  • Somme Tour Director-led sightseeing
9 Amiens - Paris
  • Travel to Paris via Villers-Bretonneux
  • Villers-Bretonneux sites Adelaide Cemetery, Australian National Memorial visit, Sir John Monash Centre visit, The Franco-Australian Museum visit
    This small town in France, was the site of the First and Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux during the First World War in 1918. The heroic recapture of this town and the sacrifice of the young Australians will forever be remembered. Today, the Australian flag still flies over Villers-Bretonneux and memorials and cemeteries pay tribute to the twelve hundred Australian soldiers who tragically lost their lives.
10 Depart Paris or start tour extension

Extension to Paris

10 Paris
  • Disney Land Paris excursion - 1 park pass Explore the land of fairytales across 5 amazing lands filled with classic attractions, shows and street parades. Please note that this excursion includes entrance to Disneyland Park. Entrance to Walt Disney Studios Park is not included.
  • Dinner at Disneyland Collect the meal voucher from your tour director and enjoy a dinner at your own pace, so you can make the most of the rides and enjoy the magical fireworks.
11 Depart Paris

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