Personal guide
Depending on the availability of the guide, De Kleine Mote offers a guided tour.
Provide your own transportation.
Indicative price: €150 for a full day, €90 for the afternoon and €250 for a two-day tour.
Themes offered (programs are customizable)
The Kemmelberg Battle – 1918
On foot.
Half day: memorial column Den Engel, Ossuary, Lettenberg bunkers, Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.
The Battle of Ypres – 1914-1915-1917-1918
By bike or by car.
Half day: Ypres (Market, St George’s Memorial Church, Ramparts with Menin Gate); Zonnebeke (Tyne Cot and Passchendaele museum)
Full day: Boezinge (Yorkshire Trench & dug-out, Essex Farm Cemetery & ADS, Cross of Reconciliation, Carrefour des Roses) and Ypres.
Possibly with a meal in Ypres and The Last Post at 8 pm.
Mine Battle (Mesen and Wijtschate) – June 1917
By bike or car.
Half day: Pool of Peace, Bayernwald, Mesen (church, Peace Park, New Zealand sites).
Full day: Palingbeek, Hill 60, Bluff, Caterpillar and Hill 62.
Battle of the Yser (Diksmuide – Vladslo – Nieuwpoort – Veurne – Lo) – 1914
By car.
Full day:
- Nieuwpoort – lock complex de Ganzenpoot, Albert I monument and Visitors Centre Westfront;
- Diksmuide – the architecture of the reconstruction, Yser Tower (Museum aan de IJzer);
- Vladslo – German cemetery with statue group Käthe Kollwitz;
- Veurne – historical centre
Behind the Front (Poperinge)
By bike or by car.
Half day: Talbot House, Lyssenthoek, execution site/death cells, Chinese monument Busseboom
Full day: Haringe-Roesbrugge (smuggling routes at the Schreve) and Children’s Brewery Reningelst
Interested?
Send an e-mail to info@dekleinemote.be with your desired date and theme.