Flanders Fields Remembrance Tour from Brussels

For history enthusiasts, this full-day tour from Brussels offers a profound experience of Flanders Fields' WWI heritage. Departing from central Brussels, travel by comfortable, air-conditioned coach to Vladslo to visit the German Military Cemetery, a tranquil site featuring Käthe Kollwitz’s moving Grieving Parents sculpture. Continue to the Western Front at Diksmuide and see the Brooding Soldier monument honoring Canadian soldiers lost to the first gas attacks.

The tour then visits the Flanders Field Museum, where audio-guided exhibits delve into the lives of soldiers in the trenches. After a stop in Passchendaele, which transformed from a brutal battlefield into a serene town, head to Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, and the Essex Farm Field Hospital, where John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields. The tour includes a stop at Hill 60, famous for its strategic WWI tunnels, and concludes in Ypres for an independent dinner and the deeply moving Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate. The tour ends back in Brussels with a reflective return journey.