重返一战战场，佛兰德斯 一日游

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第1天 迪克斯迈德→帕斯尚→埃塞克斯农场→布鲁塞尔

• 集合

  参见上车地点

• 景点

  布鲁塞尔

• 介绍

  首先，我们会根据您所提供的旅馆地址进行接车服务，或者您也可以选择亲自前往市中心与导游会面。巴士将会一路向东南驶去，朝着您旅行的第一站——迪克斯迈德前进。在这里，您将会见到一战时最重要的德国公墓——德国军队公墓。您将漫步在这片来之不易的和平土地上，一窥凯绥-柯勒惠支为反映战争对人类影响的雕塑——悲痛双亲。
  Start your day with a pickup from your centrally located Brussels hotel, or alternatively, meet your guide in the center of town. Leave the city by coach and travel southeast toward the town of Vladslo, your first destination of the day! Stop to see the German Military Cemetery of Vladslo, the most important German cemetery from WWI, and as you walk through the hauntingly peaceful area, look out for the Kthe Kollwitz sculptures Grieving Parents – a heartrending portrayal of how the war impacted people at a personal level.
  
  接着，您将会来到迪科斯迈德的一个小城，在这里，您将会与死亡战壕有一次亲密接触，这个曾经的西方战线分界区（从比利时到阿尔卑斯），如今已成为比利时勇气与坚持的象征。您还可以一睹和平门与伊锡尔塔的风采，之后在和平磨与加拿大人纪念碑的注视下与这座小城挥手告别。
  Continue to the small city of Diksmuide to visit the Trench of Death, a stretch of the Western Front (the trench lines from Belgium to the Alps) that now serves as a symbol of Belgium’s heroism and resistance. See the impressive Gate of Peace (IJser Gate) and Yser Tower (IJzertoren), and then leave the city, passing alongside the Peace Mill and the Canadian Monument in St Julien.
  
  旅程的下一站是帕斯尚而，来到这里，您肯定难以想象，这个如今沉静安详的城镇竟然曾经是喧嚣狂暴的战争爆发地。结束了一上午的疲惫旅程，您可以在古老的芝士工坊中享用一顿美味的比利时特色午餐，这里将为您提供新鲜烘焙的面包与独具风味的芝士，小憩片刻之后，您将会来到英联邦公墓墓园，这里埋葬着约35000名英联邦士兵，面对如此直观的战争悲剧，您一定会被深深震撼。您会意识到自己所涉足的这片土地，不仅仅对英联邦国家有着庄严的意义，对全世界也有着深深的警醒作用。
  Stop in Passchendaele, and see how this once chaotic battlefield has turned into a sleepily tranquil town. Sit down for a hearty ploughman's lunch in a local restaurant, and then travel to Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, where some 35,000 soldiers from the Commonwealth forces are laid at rest. The sheer amount of graves puts the tragic scale of WWI into a semblance of perspective. Walk around and learn about the significance of this dignified site for nations around the world, not just the Commonwealth countries.
  
  接下来，您会身临埃塞克斯农场——野战医院前身，这里被完整的保存了下来，也就是在这里，约翰-麦克雷创作出了有名的诗歌——《在佛兰德斯战场》。电子音频讲解器将会为您讲述当年医生是如何在狭窄阴暗的沟壑中救助伤患的故事，您将会慢慢了解一战期间发生在佛兰德斯地区的故事。您可以进到博物馆里面参观，不过您需要为购买用于缅怀祭奠的罂粟花支付1欧元，您所贡献的1欧元将用于退伍军人慈善组织。
  Head to the Essex Farm Field Hospital next and see the impeccably preserved bunkers where John McCrae penned his famous poem In Flanders’ Fields. Hear how the soldiers were treated in the bunkers’ narrow, darkened corridors and then visit the In Flanders’ Fields Museum to learn the story of WWI in the Flanders region from an audio-guided tour. Entry to the museum is included, but you will be required to pay for a poppy as you go inside. This payment goes toward a war veterans charity.
  
  在旅程即将结束的时候，您会来到具有战略性意义重大的隧道战争之家——Hill 60，之后在伊普尔自由参观一段时间，在这段时间内，您可以自由购买晚餐。傍晚时分，您将会在导游的指导下来到梅因门，参加名为“最后的号音”的仪式。您不必担心，仪式非常简短，目的是赞颂昔日为保卫家园而献身的战士们，在仪式结束后，您将会乘车返回布鲁塞尔，大概22:00左右您就可以安全返回目的地。
  Visit Hill 60 – home to a series of strategically significant tunnels– and then travel to Ypres for some free time for dinner (own expense). In the early evening, meet your guide to attend the Last Post Ceremony at Ypres’ Menin Gate. Taking place daily, the ceremony is a simple, yet moving, tribute to the bravery of those who died defending their town. At the end of the ceremony, return to your coach and drive back to Brussels. Your tour finishes in central Brussels around 10pm.

• 返程

  22:00返回原出发地