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Viet Nam Tours - The Long Tan Trek Tour The original Tour that used the name "Long Tan
Trek", and the only one which has as its host and guide one of the
original battle commanders. If you are looking for the REAL,
ORIGINAL "Long Tan Trek"- you've found it.
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Dave Sabben was the commander of 12 Platoon, Delta Company, 6RAR at the Battle of Long Tan. Others may have read what happened and they may have walked the ground, but they don't KNOW what happened. You can now walk with Dave over the battlefield, ask the questions you want answered, and see the places it all happened.
In October
2010, Dave will host and guide a Tour to the area of Australian operations
during the Viet Nam War. The Tour group will then trek from Nui Dat to the Long Tan rubber plantation, following as closely as possible the route that Delta Company, 6RAR, took on the 18th. We will have lunch in the rubber plantation at the same place that Delta Company did on the 18th, then walk the battlefield, ending at the Cross by 5:00pm. The walk will be timed to be as long as the actual battle took - some 3.5 hours. We will walk to all the places where the Delta Company soldiers experienced significant events during the battle - the initial contact, the first and final Company positions, the left hook by 10 Platoon, the right hook by 12 Platoon, the place the Company took the ammo resupply and, of course, the place of the heroic stand by 11 Platoon. Along the way, Dave will describe what's happening in
"real time" - that is, because the Trek will take the same time as the
battle, those on the tour will know what was happening at each stage of the
battle. At 600 and 1000 metres from the main battlefield, Dave will also point out the places where the APC reinforcement column with Alpha Coy, 6RAR aboard, contacted the enemy on their way towards Delta Coy. The plantation was destroyed during the battle and was
replaced by a cornfield after the War. But rubber trees have again
been planted and are now, in 2010, the same age and size as they were in
1966. And very little of the topography has changed in 44 years. <--- Here's a downloadable flyer. The Long Tan walk-through is only part of the whole tour. We will also spend a day and two nights in HCMC (Saigon) and visit the site of the FSB Coral battle, the Dong Nai museum (where the original Cross is on display), the former 1ALSG site, we'll stand on the old minefield, see the "horseshoe", visit the Long Hai VC sanctuary and much more, including a surprise or two. The flyer gives a summary, along with how to get additional information. But the full itinerary is also available, which gives an exact timetable, along with specified (4-star) hotels and the other destinations covered in theoptional Extension Tour. <--- Here's a downloadable itinerary (13 pages, as at 19 May 2010). Tell your friends. Please consider joining the tour. Non-Vets and ladies? It's not just for Vets and "blokes" - those who have joined us on the earlier tours have all said they learned heaps - and enjoyed it too. Here's a pic of the tour group from October 2009... |
