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Go behind the Iron Curtain and experience a city of spies and clashing ideologies
Delve into the heart of former East Berlin
Cross the border at former Berlin Wall checkpoints
Stand where Reagan stood when he challenged Gorbachev to: 'Tear down this Wall!"
Stand in the shadow of the Berlin Wall

Cold War Berlin: Private 3-hour Walking Tour

By Vexperio
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$563 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Post-WW2 Berlin was a geopolitical battleground. Socialism and capitalism, dictatorship and democracy, and the United States and the Soviet Union all went head to head in the German capital. The most notorious symbol of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, stood at the frontier of East and West, and people risked their lives trying to escape across it.

This tour is designed to immerse you in the divided city – a place of ideological extremes, of espionage and intrigue, and of tyranny and heroism – while also considering the legacy of the division in a Germany that reunified in 1990. Your professional, local guide will present the bigger picture of the Cold War in Germany, while also telling the stories of the individuals who risked it all to escape from the East, and also those that died trying.

Activity location

  • Checkpoint Charlie
    • Friedrichstr. 43-45,
    • 10969, Berlin, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Checkpoint Charlie
    • Friedrichstr. 43-45,
    • 10969, Berlin, Germany

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Cold War Berlin: Private 3-hour Walking Tour
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
AU$562.91 x 1 AdultAU$562.91
Total
Price is AU$562.91
Until Tue, 8 Apr

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional, local guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drink
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance fees (none required for the tour)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedPublic transport costs

Know before you book

  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Checkpoint Charlie
  • 15m
Cross the border from West to East at the frontline of the Cold War, where spies roamed and US and Soviet tanks faced off in 1961.
Brandenburg Gate
  • 30m
Be transported to a time when Berlin's most iconic monument was closed by the Berlin Wall, standing as a stark symbol for both the division of Berlin and Germany. See where Reagan challenged Gorbachev to 'tear down this Wall!' in 1987, and learn why the Gate is now a bold statement of German unity.
Berliner Fernsehturm
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
Stand in the shadow of Europe's second tallest building – built to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the GDR, and as a powerful symbol of the power, capability, and modernity of Socialist East Germany.
Memorial of the Berlin Wall
  • 1h 15m
Visit Berlin's official Berlin Wall Memorial: stand in the shadow of the Wall; follow it underground into one of the city's notorious former 'Ghost Stations'; pay tribute to the those who lost their lives at the border, and stand at the site of daring escapes from East to West; and look out over the former 'Death Strip'.
Bornholmer Straße
  • 15m
Bear witness to the fall of the Berlin Wall where the border was first breached on the 9th of November 1989, and walk in the steps of the East Berliners as they streamed into the West of the city for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Palace of Tears
  • 30m
Witness a city, a people, and families divided at this excellent museum housed in the former passport control of a border crossing point over the Berlin Wall.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESCheckpoint Charlie
    • Friedrichstr. 43-45,
    • 10969, Berlin, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECheckpoint Charlie
    • Friedrichstr. 43-45,
    • 10969, Berlin, Germany

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