Berlin Trip Overview
This guided Berlin walking tour will show you the staging ground of the military conflict between the Western world and the communist world. With your expert guide, see the Berlin Wall and hidden areas of the Death Strip, former guard towers and underground ‘Ghost Stations’, the Soviet Embassy and espionage points of the CIA and KGB. Learn about the leaders of East Germany, including Erich Honecker, and hear from your guide how life was like for Berlin’s citizens during the almost 45 years of conflict.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Berlin, Germany
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Berlin, Berlin, Germany
This guided Berlin walking tour will show you the staging ground of the military conflict between the Western world and the communist world. With your expert guide, see the Berlin Wall and hidden areas of the Death Strip, former guard towers and underground ‘Ghost Stations’, the Soviet Embassy and espionage points of the CIA and KGB. Learn about the leaders of East Germany, including Erich Honecker, and hear from your guide how life was like for Berlin’s citizens during the almost 45 years of conflict.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Berlin Friedrichstrasse Station, Georgenstr. 14/17, 10117 Berlin Germany
Take a ghost train ride from our meeting point through the old Cold War ghost stations
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: Admiralspalast Berlin, Friedrichstr. 101, 10117 Berlin Germany
See the location where the East German Political Party (SED) was founded in 1946
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17 Mitte, 10117 Berlin Germany
A former East German transit exit building, now a sensational museum that speaks to the importance of the building during the Cold War.
Duration: 15 minutes
Pass By: Bernauer Straße, Bernauer Str., Berlin, Germany
Take a ghost train ride up to Nordbahnhof. Learn about what happened in a divided city with the underground which went historically from East to West.
Stop At: Memorial of the Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse 111, 13355 Berlin Germany
Death strip area, East German guard tower, Tunnel 57 (longest and most successful escape tunnel), Chapel of Reconciliation, first death at the Berlin Wall, where people jumped out of windows to escape the oppression of socialistic East Germany
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Chapel of Reconciliation, Bernauer Str. 4, 10115 Berlin Germany
See this symbolic church, once blown up by East Germans in 1985. Now rebuilt, it unites architectural and ecological modernity with remembrance, standing as a triumph against its predecessor’s destruction
Duration: 10 minutes
