Explore Berlin at your own pace with a 48-hour, 72-hour, 4-day, 5-day, or 6-day Berlin WelcomeCard. Ride public transport in the AB or ABC zones,…
Enjoy a guided tour of the parliament quarter in Berlin and learn more about the troubled and eventful history of the capital. Visit the glass dome…
Enjoy a magical winter tour of Berlin on a Segway and get to know one of Europe's most bustling and exciting cities. With your experienced tour guide…
Visit the Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. Founded shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall, this museum had a vital role in…
Skip the line at the DDR Museum (also known as the GDR Museum) in Berlin and dive right into history. Rummage through cupboards and drawers in…
Jam-pack your time in Berlin and see all the attractions with a hop-on hop-off bus tour. Simply choose between the yellow or purple lines, and begin…
Enjoy an exciting 2-hour tour of the government district and the Reichstag building in Berlin. Learn more about the history, architecture, and…
Explore Berlin on a comprehensive 3.5 to 4-hour walking tour, starting from our meeting point in central Berlin. See all the major sights, from the…
Drive through Berlin in the official car of the DDR! Squeeze yourself behind the wheel of a Trabant of your choice and putter around the capital. See…
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For 28 years the Berlin Wall symbolized an ideological stalemate and its fall was swiftly followed by that of the Soviet Union. It's shaped the contemporary life of a city and the attitudes of its residents, so here are some things to know before your trip.
Berlin was the main route for the 3.5 million East Germans emigrating to the West prior to 1961. The 155km wall was intended to stifle a hemorrhaging workforce!
An estimated 100,000 still escaped East Germany after the wall went up. In the first two years, 1,300 of them were border guards!
Crossing wasn't easy, of course. At least 98 people were killed as a result of trying to sneak through, although some counts put the death toll well above 200!
East Berliners devised many daring ways of entering the West, from tightropes, zip-lines, and hot air balloons to crashing through in a speeding train!
Misinformation about relaxed regulations spread across East German news, driving citizens to gather at the wall hoping to cross. Outnumbered, the border guards eventually gave way!
Most of the wall has been demolished, but tourists can still visit preserved segments, such as the Eastside Gallery (so-called for its large graffiti murals running along the Spree River's east bank between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain). A notable section is also visible at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse. City tours should cover most of the sites, including Checkpoint Charlie – the famous American checkpoint on Friedrichstrasse.
Berlin is a true summer city and there are few better ways to spend a sun-soaked visit than to tour its sights by foot or by bike! If your visit has been cursed by cold or rainy weather, however, visit the segment at the Berlin Wall Memorial. It can be viewed from the top floor of its Visitors' Center, which also provides fascinating insights into life behind the wall.
Would highly recommend out guide George today. He was so informative and efficient in bringing us around schauzen camp. Helped with train information too
The tour was great very interesting to hear about divided Berlin I hadn't heard before thought provoking. Thanks Alicia
Our guide (can't remember her name, but she was from Australia) knows her history very well and was super friendly and dynamic. Really happy we did this tour, that really helped us to better understand under which condition the German nation was led into such horrible events by the Nazi party and how the population now copes with those traumatic memories. Our guide was very sensible about the way she taught us this dark part of History and brought tears to my eyes at some occasions. But don't worry, she also knows how to make us laugh as well!
An amazing tour! Passing through most of the main sights Rob, a fellow mancunian was an excellent tour guide. Very informative, funny and more than knowledgeable on all things Berlin.
Been on quite afew of these tours and this was as good as any we've been on. Sarah , whilst not a native Berliner , was knowledgeable and informative and kept what was quite a large group engaged. Not sure why we needed to book, there seemed to be afew people who just turned up on the day. Disappointing as we had to split our group between 10:0 and 11:00 due to 'available spaces'
