- Board your flight Begin your journey to Paris, France.
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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Destinations
ParisVersaillesFlandersAmiensVillers-Bretonneux
Learning Areas
Humanities and Social Sciences
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Day 11: Paris extension
Your Adventure
- Arrive in Paris Meet your Tour Director and check into your hotel.
- Paris city walk 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
- Paris guided sightseeing tour Explore Paris with a local guide. See Arc de Triomphe, Champs Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, École Militaire, Les Invalides, Conciergerie, Tuileries Garden, Place Vendôme, and the Opera House.
- Versailles guided excursion 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.
- Louvre visit Explore the world's largest art museum and see the Mona Lisa.
- Seine River cruise See the city from the water on an hour-long cruise along the River Seine. 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.
- 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
- Mission Polygon Wood experience 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.
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Flanders sites
Explore Flanders sites including Messines Ridge, Gheluvelt, Hill 60, The Caterpillar, and visit Hill 62 (Sanctuary Wood).
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 Embark on a guided tour of the Flanders Field Museum.
- Last Post ceremony at Menin Gate
- Travel to Amiens via Fromelles and the Somme
- Fromelles sites 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
- Travel to Paris via Villers-Bretonneux
- Villers-Bretonneux sites Learn about Australia’s role in WWI as you journey through the battlefields and memorials of the Somme area. See the Adelaide Cemetery and visit the Australian National Memorial, Sir John Monash Centre, and The Franco-Australian Museum.
- Travel home or continue on to Paris
- Disneyland Paris extension 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.
