Price Includes: Lodging at star hotels, breakfast daily, full time English speaking tour escort, services of air conditioned deluxe motor coach, all guides, entrances, touring and transportation as appears on itinerary, baggage handling at hotels one piece.
Not Included: All lunches, dinners of your choice, tips to driver, guides, and hotel staff, optional travel insurance. Arriving in Paris we meet our guide who assists us to our motorcoach. We immediately head out of the city and north towards the Normandy Coast. This museum houses exhibits relating from WWII to present day.
We arrive at our hotel where we have dinner and overnight the next three nights in Caen. Our first stop will be at the American Cemetery overlooking the eastern end of Omaha Beach.
We will take this time to pay our respects to the deceased at the hundreds of crosses and stars of David. Entrance to the Peace Memorial is included. We begin our in-depth tour of the area battlefields by stopping at Pointe Du Hoc, a sheer cliff some forty meters high. It is here that the US Army Rangers stormed cliffs with collapsible ladders and grappling hooks to get onto Omaha Beach. Omaha Beach was a site where very little went according to plan.
Unexpectedly strong defenses led to heavy U. We will study the battlefields; cross the beaches, analyze the maps and imagine the courage that saved our freedom that day. Our final visit of the day is to Ste. John Steel managed to land on the church and his chute caught on the steeple. He hung there while the fighting continued on the ground for two hours before being cut down by the Germans, taken prisoner and later released by the Americans. We will also stop at the Paratrooper Museum housing many interesting artifacts including a DC3 aircraft used on D-day together with a glider.
