- Request guided bike tour at least 2 weeks in advance in writing to Tourism Ypres
- Maximum 25 persons per guide
(Small groups of families or families also possible) - Bike tours are a combination of biking to the location and there a short walk with explanations from an expert guide.
- Bicycles are not included in the activity.
Provide your own bikes or contact a local bike rental company
Bike Tour Ypres Salient
These three different bike tours are all about the "visible" relics in the landscape of World War I around Ypres.
You follow the arched front line - also marked by the newly planted memorial trees - which remained almost the same around the center of Ypres during the war years. The new entry points along the Ypres Arch: North, East and South are stopping points during the cycle route for a short walk along real memories in the landscape.
- Distance: 24 kilometers - 4 hours
- Guide: € 160.00
- Bring your own bikes or Bike rental
A. Ypres Arch Entry Point North
Route: Grand Place, Ypreslee Canal, Essex Farm Cemetery (place where John McCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields), Carrefour des Roses, Entry Point North/Yorkshire Trench & Dug-Out, Wheel, French Cemetery Saint Charles de Potyze.
It is possible to also visit the German cemetery in Langemark during this bike tour.
B. Ypres Salient Entry East
Route: French cemetery Saint Charles de Potyze, Begijnenbosstraat, 't Hooge/Instapunt Oost, Hill 62 and Zillebekevijver
C. Ypres Salient Entry Point South
Route: Grote Markt, Zillebekevijver, Hill 60, Caterpillar Crater, Palingbeek/Instapunt Zuid/The Bluff, Sint-Elooi Crater and Bedford House Cemetery.
It is possible on this bike tour to pass through St. Charles de Potyze French Cemetery.
Bike tour: the flat and watery Ypres
- Departure/bike rental: 25 kilometers - 4 hours
- Guide: € 160,00
- Bring your own bikes or bike rental
We follow a very flat route of about 25 km. In it we highlight the economic, ecological and even military role that "water" plays and has played in and around Ypres.
Through the eastern fortifications we reach Zillebekevijver, for centuries and still today of great importance for the supply of drinking water. Further on, we ride along the old Ypres-Komen canal (or how an economic failure became an ecological asset) and also reach the Ypres Lake Canal.
At Essex Farm Cemetery we tell about the medical aid station where John McCrae wrote the famous poem "In Flanders Fields" in 1915.
Via the Boezinge lock we return to Ypres with a short stop at 'Carrefour des Roses' (first gas attack) or a short visit to the Yorkshire Trench (British deep dugout and trenches).
Bike tour: Green Ypres
- Distance: 30 kilometers - 4 hours
- Guide: € 160.00
- Bring your own bikes or Bike rental
This bicycle tour takes a more undulating route. Via the fortifications and the Bijlanderpad, the guide leads cyclists to the provincial domain De Palingbeek. Through beautiful bike paths, the tour continues to the Polygoonbossen in Zonnebeke. After a stop the way back to Ypres is started. The route runs over 30 kilometers.
