if you go to this one do it with a tour guide as you need to know all the background More

Many Australians would be familiar with the feature film Beneath Hill 60 regarding the exploits of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy in WW1 . This site is about 15 mins south of Ieper itself , and the tortured nature of the landscape gives you some idea of what went on here . The site comprises of the crater itself ,... More

It was dirty and smelt of cats it was also too expensive compared to the other places we visited More

Hard to appreciate today why it was given such importance in the first World War. Thought provoking as you think of all the men that died on it. Nearby Caterpillar Crater is also worth a visit. More

Hill 60 is an artificial mount formed by the earth excavated from the adjacent railway cutting. It was seized by the Germans at the beginning of war and became a major site of the underground war where networks of galleries were painfully dug by both camps in order to attack the opponent’s positions. The British miner regiments dug underground galleries... More

This site is where the Allies dug tunnels under the German lines and planted tons of explosives. The resulting explosions created giant craters which remain the same today was they were in 1917 other than the vegetation which has grown since then. More

The site is largely untouched, and it sends a shiver down the spine to think of the lost soldiers still lying here after almost 100 years. More

My wife and I were travelling thorugh Europe following our son in the Australia Youth Choir International Tour. One of their stops was in Ypres. Prior to travelling from Australia to Europe, we watched a documentary on Oz TV about the Aussie tunnelling company at Hill 60. That made us determined to see Hill 60 for ourselves. On our last... More

Hill 60 is a touching site to visit. The giant craters and tattered landscape left as it was at the end of WWI, supposedly one of the locations the Germans first used Gas. There is a bunker on the premises which originally was an allied bunker, but the addition (just about everything you can see) with the door facing away... More