Half Day Excursions

City Sightseeing Tour of Berlin

Monday, 22 September 2008
09.30 – 12.30 h
and
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
14.00 – 17.00 h


The tour will pass the Kurfürstendamm, one of Berlin's main boulevards, and the Philharmonic Hall, Cultural Forum, Federal Library and National Gallery. Pass by the Reichstag - seat of the German parliament - which has been reconstructed from 1994-1999 and got a huge new glass dome. Continue to the boulevard "Unter den Linden". See the State Opera House, Humboldt University, the Museum of German History, the red brick City Hall and the Pergamon Museum. Pass Brandenburg Gate and Bellevue Palace and the Victory Column. Continue on to Charlottenburg.

Price per person: € 27    

Excursion to Potsdam

Thursday, 25  September 2008
09.30 – 14.30 h
This tour will take you from the conference venue to Potsdam, the city which best reflects the brilliance of Prussian history in many different periods. Visit one of the palaces of Sanssouci and the beautiful gardens. The whole complex has been built as summer residence for the Prussian royal family.
Pass the early 18th century settlement "Holland Quarter" with its colourful houses and the Russian colony "Alexandrovka".  

Price per person: € 50

Visit to Museum Island

Sunday, 21 September 2008
14.00 – 17.00 h
and
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
09.30 – 12.30 h

On the way to the Museum Island your guests will be introduced to Berlin and its major sights. The Museum Island ranks as one of the most significant museum complexes world-wide. You will visit the Pergamon Museum, whose magnificent collection includes the famous Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylonia, the gate of Milet and antique sculptures. The second museum to be seen is the “Altes Museum”. 

Price per person: € 45

Controversial Berlin Tour

Monday, 22 September 2008
14.00 – 17.00 h

During the forty years of Berlin's division, the two halves of the city underwent completely different developments. Most of the after-effects of this period are still very apparent today and are illustrated by your guide on the tour.
Stop for a visit of the museum at Checkpoint Charlie with its impressive documentation of the courage and ingenuity with which many East Germans escaped to the West. 

Afterwards the tour will continue by bus. You will stop at the East Side Gallery which was created by painters from all over the world. It is Europe's only and most famous open air gallery painted on original pieces of the wall.

Rate per person: € 40

Jewish Berlin

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
09.30 – 13.30 h

A private coach will take the group to „Spandauer Vorstadt“ (Spandau suburb) which is the area around Hackescher Markt in the district Mitte. The heart of Spandauer Vorstadt is the New Synagogue which has always been and still is the symbol of Jewish culture in Berlin. Since the 90s, a lot of Jewish restaurants, cafés, institutions – cultural as well as educational – and a Jewish community have settled here. The bus will stop at Hackescher Markt and drop people off for a walking tour. The tour will pass by shops, exhibits, restaurants and cafés on August Street, Tucholsky Street and Johannis Street with the guide giving insider information. Some of the restaurants offer kosher meals and Jewish literature.

The bus will pick the group back up at the New Synagogue and Centrum Judaicum and take them to the Jewish Museum in Kreuzberg. This museum is a spectacular highlight of modern architecture in Berlin. The design by Daniel Libeskind is based on a process of connecting lines between locations of historic events and locations of Jewish culture in Berlin. 

The museum opened in 2001 and gives an interesting insight into the history of the Jewish people. A tour of the museum will be arranged.

Rate per person: € 40  

Berlin from the Spree Canals

Wednesday, 24 September 2008
09.30 – 13.30 h

Berlin was once Germany's second largest inland port. And the city still has more bridges than Venice!
Travel by coach to the landing pier Schlossbrücke. There you will board a public sightseeing boat.
See Berlin from an unusual and fascinating perspective during this 90-minutes cruise through some of the Spree River canals. 
You will see Charlottenburg Palace, then travel along the Spree to Berlin-Mitte, the historic heart of the city. Pass such famous sights as the Reichstag, the Berlin Cathedral and the Museum Island, site of one of the world's richest museum complexes, and the Nikolai Quarter.

Rate per person: € 46


Full Day Excursions

Excursion to Potsdam

Sunday, 21 September 2008
09.30 – 16.30 h
and
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
09.30 – 16.30 h

This tour will take you from the conference venue to Potsdam, the city which best reflects the brilliance of Prussian history in many different periods. Visit two of the palaces of Sanssouci and the beautiful gardens.
The whole complex has been built as summer residence for the Prussian royal family.
Pass the early 18th century settlement "Holland Quarter" with its colourful houses and the Russian colony "Alexandrovka". Lunch will be arranged at one
of the local restaurants.

Rate per person including lunch: € 100

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