The Ypres Salient was a bulge in the front line that had to be defended at all costs to protect the port city of Calais. The Ypres Salient car route takes you to the most important sites and monuments of the World War I front and takes you to the stories of Guynemer, John McRae, German Cemetery, Tyne Cot Cemetery etc...
This route by car shows you the No man's land in between both frontlines. You will discover the stories of the Langemarck myth, the first gas attack and the liberation offensive. Also the Flemish front story, with the IJzer Tower as an exquisite symbol, gets the necessary attention during this route by car.