Last minute bookings are available on Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours’ 4-day Western Front Explorers, which offer weekly departures from April to November each year – with all 2023 departures guaranteed. From $2199 per person, twin share, and with convenient pick up and drop off in Paris – plus the option to join the tour in Lille if catching the Eurostar from London – Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours’ Western Front Explorer has been designed to make visiting the battlefields of the Western Front accessible as part of any European holiday.
Mat McLachlan said: “This is our most popular Western Front Tour. Over four days you visit all the Australian battlefields of the Western Front, walking in the footsteps of the Anzacs on all the main battlefield sites in the Somme, Flanders and the Ypres Salient. We stay in the heart of the battlefields, and spend time exploring beautiful Ypres in Belgium and villages in the Somme, meeting local people, experiencing culture and tasting the cuisine, as well as uncovering the battlefield history. I personally designed the itinerary to include special behind the scenes experiences and selected the expert Historians to guide our Western Front Explorers, who help to bring the history to life and can assist travellers to follow in the footsteps of their own Anzac relatives who fought and died on the Western Front.”
2023 Western Front Explorer late-summer and early-autumn dates available for booking are:
Saturday 10 June
Saturday 17 June
Monday 26 June
Sunday 2 July
Monday 3 July
Saturday 8 July
Monday 17 July
Saturday 22 July
Saturday 29 July
Saturday 5 August
Saturday 12 August
Monday 21 August
Saturday 26 August
Weekly departures during September and October coinciding with the France 2023 Rugby World Cup are also available, plus a special 4-day Remembrance Day on the Western Front tour.
