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Discover the Normandy D-Day sites on a private day-trip, leaving right from the doorstep of your Paris Accomodation. Your will travel in the comfort of a private vehicle with your personal driver/guide. Visit Point du Hoc and its famous cliffs, the American Cemetery in Colleville with its 9,387 Headstones, as well as German Bunkers, plus walk on the sadly famous Omaha Beach also called “Bloody Omaha“. Your day alone with your guide will be filled of Memories you’ll never forget.
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Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Paris, France
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Discover the Normandy D-Day sites on a private day-trip, leaving right from the doorstep of your Paris Accomodation. Your will travel in the comfort of a private vehicle with your personal driver/guide. Visit Point du Hoc and its famous cliffs, the American Cemetery in Colleville with its 9,387 Headstones, as well as German Bunkers, plus walk on the sadly famous Omaha Beach also called “Bloody Omaha“. Your day alone with your guide will be filled of Memories you’ll never forget.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Pointe du Hoc, 14450 Cricqueville-en-Bessin France
After meeting your driver/guide at the doorstep of your hotel, you will depart Paris in the early morning in your private
air-conditioned vehicle, to travel to the French Region of Normandy for your D-Day landing beaches Day-Trip. First stop at Pointe du Hoc, 90-foot (27-meter) cliffs where 225 rangers landed on the morning of June 6, 1944.
Stop At: Cimetiere Americain de Colleville-sur-Mer, 14710 Colleville-sur-Mer France
Then continue to Colleville-sur-Mer to visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, which overlooks Omaha Beach and is home to more than 9,000 white crosses perfectly aligned on 170 acres. A chapel and memorial add the finishing touches to this moving site that allows visitors to reflect on the price of war.
Stop At: Overlord Museum – Omaha Beach, Rond-Point D’acces du Cimetiere Americain, Lotissement Omaha Center Rond-point d’accès du Cimetière Américain – Lotissement Omaha Center, 14710 Colleville-sur-Mer France
After a stop for Lunch (not included), you will have the opportunity to visit the Overlord Museum, a fabulous place with some
wonderful dioramas giving a great insight into the events of D-Day and the whole Overlord operation.
Stop At: Arromanches-les-Bains, Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Normandy
Then visit other WWII locations such as Arromanches and the vestiges of the artificial Mulberry harbor, Longues-sur-Mer, and the
German artillery battery, which gave the Allied troops a lot of push back on the morning of June 6th. This is the only coastal
battery to have kept its guns, giving a picture of what an Atlantic wall gun emplacement was like.
Your day trip will end with return to Paris, filled of Memories you’ll never forget.