Private Normandy D-Day Live guided Top 6 Sites trip from Paris

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1. 07:30 Pick up from Your hotel in Paris (it can be as well Caen, Bayeux, Honfleur) and departure destination Caen by our air conditioned comfortable Mercedes E220 business-class car by 2 people or by Mercedes minivan from 3 participants. It takes about 3 hours (240 km) to reach the Memorial of Caen. One stop at the rest area will be made. This trip is Live guided from 4 participants.

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2. 10:30 - 12:00 Visit of The Caen Memorial and Museum, located in the British Sword Beach sector. Caen Museum is the best World War II museum in France. You will get an overview of the Battle of Normandy as well the sense of the personal lives of the people who took part in it. An excellent 19-minute film documents this battle with original historic footage. 12:00 Departure to Arromanches-les-Bains. It takes about 0,5 hour (30 km) on the national roads crossing beautiful countryside and small villages.

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3. 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break and visit of Arromanches-les-Bains town. Arromanches is a small seaside town famous for its former artificial Mulberry Harbour. Located in the center of the British Gold Beach landing zone it played an invaluable role in the D-Day landings. The Allies built here an artificial temporary harbour for unloading of vehicles, materials, and people. Mulberry Harbour had, by June 12, 1944, helped bring 300,000 men, 54,000 vehicles, and 104,000 tons of supplies to Europe.

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4. 13:30 - 14:30 "360* Circular Cinema" visit. It is located on the top of the hill with the best Viewpoint over the bay of the former artificial harbour. You will watch a very impressive documentary bout 100 days of the Battle of Normandy learning in details Operation Overlord. 14:30 Departure to the Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center. It is just half an hour drive (20 km).

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5. 15:00 - 16:10 Arrival and Visit of the Normandy American Cemetery & Visitor Center, located in Colleville-sur-Mer and overlooking Omaha Beach. It contains 9,387 U.S. soldiers, most of whom were killed during the Normandy Landings and the Wall of the Missing with the names of 1,557 soldiers missing in action. The cliffs leading down to the beaches contain the remnants of the German defences, including concrete casemates with memorials to the soldiers. At Normandy American Cemetery you’ll see as well the semicircular memorial colonnade with the sculpture “Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves” and large maps of military operations; and the most beautiful, idyllic spot on Planet Earth. At the Visitors Center You will find a very nice small Museum with a lot of informations about Battle of Normandy. 16:10 Departure to close the located Overlord Museum.

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6. Cemetery this museum contains many WW2 artefacts and installations like tanks, weapons, guns, many military vehicles, V-1 missile, personal belongings and more. It gives You a personal feeling about D-Day. 16:45 Departure to Omaha Beaches. It takes just 5 to 10 minutes (5 km).

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7. 16:50 - 17:20 Arrival at Omaha Beach. Learn about the huge sacrifice made by the 34 000 men who landed here on D-Day. Omaha Beach is the most popular travellers destination of the D-Day Beaches. 17:20 Departure to Pointe du Hoc. I takes 15 minutes (10 km). 17:20 Departure to Pointe du Hoc. I takes 15 minutes (10 km).

   30 minEntrada incluida

8. 17:30 - 18:30 Arrival at Pointe du Hoc, a prominent cliff between Utah and Omaha Beach. This point was important because it was the highest land between Omaha and Utah beaches and could thus fire upon both of them. The site was a gun battery, fortified with concrete casemates and gun pits, forming part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defences. Visiting the Pointe du Hoc You will learn about the 2nd Ranger battalion sacrifice to take this crucial gun battery on the cliffs of Omaha Beach on June 6th 1944. Many of the original fortifications and bunkers remain on the site and are open to the public, including the fire control casemate, on top of which there is a monument to the 2nd Ranger Battalion. 18:30 Departure to Paris. It takes about 3,5 hours (300 km). One stop can be made upon Your request.

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9. 21:30 - 22:00 Arrival in Paris depending on traffic situation and Your hotel location. Drop off at Your hotel.

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