Battlefield Tours, a touring company operating out of the United Kingdom, has three World War II, North Africa tours. The African and Libya tours are eight days and seven nights, and the Tunisia tour is nine days, and eight nights. The North African tours normally run from early September to late October every year and are led by Ian McLeod; a 36-year veteran of the British Army. The Battlefield Egypt tour covers the battlefield sites of the North African Campaign and the Western Desert Campaign. The Libya tour covers Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk. Some battlefield sites visited during this tour are both modern and ancient; for example, on day two of the Libya tour, tourist can visit a Greco-Roman battle site in Cyrene. The Tunisia, Battlefield and Pilgrimage tour takes tourists to all the major battle sites in Tunisia, such as the Battle of Fondouk Pass where the American, British and French divisions failed to cut off a German escape. 2010 Libya tour costs $2,725.74; the 2010 Egyptian tour $2,104.87 and the 2010 Tunisia tour cost $1,665.73.
Battlefield Tours
The War Research Society
27 Courtway Avenue
Birmingham, UK B14 4PP
+011-44-121-430-5348
battlefieldtours.co.uk
The Western Desert Battlefield tour company, in Staffordshire, England, offers 11 North Africa battlefield tours. Sites included are: the El Alamein battlefield in Egypt, the Tobruk battlefield and the Omar Mukhtar battle in Libya, the British 8th Army Battlefield and the British 1st Army battlefield in Tunisia. They also offer specially battlefield tours to the Western Desert and to the Tunis battlefield. Specialty tours also include the 2nd New Zealand Division tour, the Tobruk Battlefield Tour, Aussies at War tour, and the Battles through the Ages tour, which features battlefields from the 1798 battle of the Pyramids to the 1942 Battle of El Alamein. 2010 tour prices range from $1,883.63 to $ 2,637, depending on the tour and include flights from the UK, transportation, hotel, all meals, entrance fees and battlefield guide book.
Western Desert Battlefield Tours
c.o. Steve Hamilton
6 Chestnut Mews, Sycamore Road
Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent
Staffordshire, England DE15 9NX
+44-0-1283-526588
western-desert.de
Personalized War Histories Tour Company, headquartered out of Queensland, Australia, offers a Western Desert in Libya and Egypt, World War II Battlefields tour. Tours are led by Denis McCarthy, a North African battlefield expert and military history researcher who has led numerous tours to the World War II and ancient battlefields of North Africa since 2003. The tour includes trips to Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery in Egypt, Benghazi, Derna, the Tobruk battlefield, Bardia, Sollum, Mersa Matruh, El Alamein visiting the Commonwealth Cemetery and battlefield, Alexandria, site of the Gallipoli campaign, and Cairo. Tours are either 14 days, which departs Istanbul, or 17 days, which departs from Australia. Call for pricing.
Personalized War Histories
Made Easy Tours
6 Karyn Street Toowoomba
4350, Queensland, Australia
+61-7-4635-7470
warstories.com.au
