Anzac Day Dawn Ceremony
Announcement posted by Switched on Media 15 Oct 2010
PAY tribute to the soldiers who represented Australia on April 25, 1918 during an ANZAC Day dawn ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux.
Flight Centre is offering a specialist battlefields tour, titledAnzacs on the Western Front, which departs Lille on April 24, 2011 and travels to Amiens, Villers-Bretonneux, The Somme Artois and Ypres-Salient.
The tour traces the commemorative sites of the Great War, including Vimy Ridge, the battlefields of Pozires, the famous Windmill site and Mouquet Farm, the Memorial Park at Le Hamel and Wellington Tunnels in Arras.
Travellers will also attend the Anzac Day dawn service, a moving Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ieper and travel the line to
Plug Street along the Messines Ridge.
From $1965* per person twin share, including five nights accommodation, a specialist tour guide and driver, transportation by mini-coach, breakfast daily, two meals, return transfers to dawn service at Villers-Bretonneux and some entrance fees.
For travel from April 24 to 29, 2011 and on sale until March 31, 2011, unless sold out. Also check out more deals on cheap airfares
Phone Flight Centre on 1300 939 414 or see flightcentre.com.au.
*Price is subject to change and availability at the time of booking.