2-day Private Mont Saint-Michel, Omaha, Utah Landing Beaches Trip

07:30 Hotel pick up and Departure destination Normandy by our air conditioned comfortable Mercedes. One stop at a rest area will be made.

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11:00 - 12:00 Arrival and Visit to 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. At the Visitors Center You will find a very nice small Museum with a lot of informations about Battle of Normandy.

12:00 Departure to the close located Overlord Museum.

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12:10 - 12:50 Overlord Museum visit. Located just few hundred meters from the Normandy American 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.

12:50 Departure to Omaha Beaches. It takes just 5 minutes (5 km).

30 minuti•Ingresso incluso

13:00 - 14:00 Arrival at Omaha Beach Signal Monument. Time for Lunch. 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.

14:00 Departure to Pointe du Hoc. It takes 15 minutes.

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14:15 - 15:00 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.

45 minuti•Ingresso gratuito

15:30 - 15:50 Stop at Church Saint-Come-et-Saint-Damien in Angoville-au-Plain. During the D-Day two Medics Medics Robert Wright and Kennith Moore from the 101st Airborne set up a field hospital in the little church. They provided medical assistance to 80 combatants of both sides and one child. They used the pews of the church as hospital beds and, incredibly there are still blood stains on the church pews. Several Germans stormed through the door of the church, but seeing that the medics were treating wounded from both sides they quietly left and marked the door with a Red Cross.

15:50 Departure to the Utah Beach Landing Museum. It takes about 10 minutes (10 km).

20 minuti•Ingresso gratuito

16:00 - 16:30 Arrival at Utah Beach. Free time for learning on Utah Beach. Utah Beach is the next to Omaha Beach and the westernmost of the Five Normandy D-Day Beaches containing nowadays many museums, memorials and monuments. Utah Beach was the first beach to be stormed by 23,000 American soldiers on 6 June 1944 in order to capture the town of Cherbourg and its deep water port. Utah Beach casualties were relatively light with 197 (including 60 missing). The units that landed on Utah Beach include: 82nd Airborne Division, 101st Airborne Division, VII Corps, 4th Infantry Division, 90th Infantry Division, 4th Cavalry Regiment and 70th Tank Battalion.

Near the UTAH BEACH Landing Museum.

30 minuti•Ingresso gratuito

16:30 - 17:30 Utah Beach Landing Museum visit. Created atop a former German bunker. Having a big collection of historical artifacts, military vehicles and the original B26 bomber—one of only six left in existence.

17:30 Departure to Mont Saint-Michel. It takes 1,5 hours (130 km).

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19:00 Arrival at a hotel in Normandy close to Mont Saint-Michel

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08:00 Departure to Mont Saint-Michel Island and Abbey. It takes about 20 minutes.

Please check out beforehand and put the luggage into the Mercedes. 09:00 - 12:00 Visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Mont Saint-Michel and its Benedictine Abbey. Your guide will bring you up the narrow streets of the medieval village toward the top of the Island. You can admire panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and bay and enter the Benedictine Abbey. Entrance tickets into the Abbey include audio-guides in many languages. The whole island with the Bay remains practically the same since the Middle Ages as it was the goal of pilgrims from all over the world. Mont Saint Michel remains the most visited site in France.

3 h 30 min•Ingresso gratuito

14:00 - 14:45 Bayeux Tapestry museum. Departure to

45 minuti•Ingresso incluso

15:00 - 15:30 Longues-sur-Mer battery, Rue de la Mer, Longues-sur-Mer, France

30 minuti•Ingresso gratuito

16:00 - 17:30 Caen Memorial and Museum visit. Caen Museum, located in the British Sword Beach sector, 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.

17:30 Departure to Paris. It takes 3 hours (240 km)

1 h 30 min•Ingresso incluso

20:30 Arrival in Paris. Drop off at Your hotel

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