Tours, sightseeing tours, activities & things to do | Viator.comOmaha Beach Half-Day Trip from Bayeux
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If time is tight and you'd like to tour the Normandy beaches, this quick morning tour from Bayeux will show you all the poignant highlights of these important World War II battle sites.
From Bayeux you'll drive to Pointe du Hoc, via Sainte Marie du Mont, where the infamous German gun position threatened the Allied ships all the way to Utah and Omaha. The site was attacked by the elite 2nd U.S. Rangers, commanded by Lt. Col. James Rudder, who scaled the cliffs to get there. With its huge fortifications blown to pieces, the site remains as it was when the Rangers left it and looks like a lunar landscape.
Next, you'll drive along the coast to Omaha Beach, where soldiers of the 29th and 1st Divisions landed, fought and died. This operation was the bloodiest of the five beaches and almost failed, but the bravery of those young men turned this operation into a victory. Overlooking the bluff is the American Military Cemetery, where 9,387 service men rest in peace (keep in mind the movie Saving Private Ryan).
Omaha Assault, France
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- January 01 (New Years Day)
- December 25 (Christmas Day)
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- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- English speaking driver/guide
- Transportation in air-conditioned vehicle
- Entrance fees
- Food and drinks
- Optional gratuities
- This tour must be booked at least 48 hours in advance of travel.
- Confirmation for this tour will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability.
- Tour is operated in English unless otherwise specified.
- Type of vehicle used is dependant on passenger numbers on the day. If the group is 8 passengers or less, transport is by minivan, a larger vehicle will be used in all other cases.
- The expert escort drivers / guides are all Normandy natives and have grown up listening to the WWII stories told by their parents or grand parents who endured four years of German occupation and lived through the days of the Liberation. They bring to their guiding that "special touch" that you will not get from someone from the outside, who might know History but not "la petite histoire"... The tragic or sometimes comic little details that make this tour a special and long remembered one.
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We traveled through some beautiful Norman countryside to the beaches where we saw and learned heaps. ... Read more ›
Anonymous, Australia, June 2008
This was a second visit to Normandy and second time we took a tour because this time we took my parents. ... Read more ›
Anonymous, Belgium, July 2008
