Private Shore Excursion: Cold War and East Berlin from Warnemünde

Itinerary
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Stop At: Charlottenburg Palace, Spandauer Damm 20-24 Luisenplatz, 14059 Berlin Germany

Arrive with driver and meet your guide

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Kurfurstendamm (Kurfurstendam), Berlin Germany

Your guide will give you an insight into life in West Berlin during the Cold War, including the wild times of the Baader-Meinhof group.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin Germany

See the most famous sight in West Berlin - representing a city born from the ashes of war

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany

Hear how Germany's parliament building stood empty during the Cold War, with the Berlin sat only a few feet behind it

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin Germany

See Germany's most famous monument, and learn how for almost 30 years it lay in the "no man's land" between East and West Berlin

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstr. 43-45, 10969 Berlin Germany

Experience what used to be the world's most infamous border crossing at Checkpoint Charlie, where the US and Soviet Union came face-to-face every single day

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Berlin Friedrichstrasse Station, Georgenstr. 14/17, 10117 Berlin Germany

Learn how the two Berlins tried (and often failed) to work together at the Friedrichstrasse border crossing point

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17 Mitte, 10117 Berlin Germany

Visit a wonderfully curated state-run exhibition detailing life in Berlin during the divided days of the Wall.

(Closed on Mondays!)

Duration: 40 minutes

Stop At: Memorial of the Berlin Wall, Bernauer Strasse 111, 13355 Berlin Germany

This in-depth memorial is more like an open air museum! Here we will see many things - how did the 'Death Strip' work? What are the 'Ghost Stations'? What was the relationship between religion and communism?

Enjoy a great view of the city from a tower overlooking a reconstruction of the Wall, and so much more!

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Platz des 9. November 1989, Bornholmer Str. 72, 10439 Berlin Germany

See where the Cold War ended in November '89, when the Wall fell and thousands upon thousands of East Berliners experienced freedom for the first time, as they poured into West Berlin.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Alexanderplatz, 10178 Berlin Germany

See the heart of old East Berlin

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Berliner Fernsehturm, Panoramastr. 1A, 10178 Berlin Germany

See East Germany's most famous monument, still the tallest structure in Germany today!

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin Germany

See East Berlin's impressive Grand Boulevard, Karl-Marx-Allee

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: East Side Gallery, Muehlenstrasse 3-100 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, 14167 Berlin Germany

Finish your day with the most famous section of the Berlin Wall, the East Side Gallery, covered in murals painted by artists from all over the world.

Duration: 10 minutes