Day 1: Fly overnight to Germany
Day 2: Berlin
Meet your Field Director at the airportTake a walking tour of Berlin
With your Field Director you will see:
- Unter den Linden, Berlin’s most elegant boulevard
- Reichstag, an iconic landmark and home to Germany's national legislature
🔹 Cultural engagement: Visit the Holocaust Memorial, a large, modern park that features striking stelae, or concrete slabs, and venture into the Memorial’s Place of Information to find a list of all known Jewish Holocaust victims
Enjoy dinner in Berlin
Day 3: Berlin
🔹 Guided learning: Take a guided tour of Berlin
With your expert local guide you will see:
- Brandenburg Gate, Germany's iconic landmark representing peace and unity
- Kurfürstendamm, a famous avenue that’s lined with shops, hotels, and restaurants
- Remains of the Berlin Wall, a physical and ideological divider now covered in political graffiti
Stop to take a photo at Checkpoint Charlie, a station that guarded the border between East and West Germany
Visit the Topography of Terror Museum, a history museum located on the site of buildings that served as the headquarters of the Gestapo and the SS
Enjoy your 3-day Berlin museum pass, which gives you access to over 30 exhibitions and museums
🔹 Guided learning: Gain insight into life on both sides of the Iron Curtain when you participate in an illuminating panel-led discussion
Day 4: Berlin
🔹 Cultural engagement: Take an Alternative Berlin walking tour where you will see Berlin's art through the lens of various communities
🔹 Independent exploration: Spend a half day exploring Berlin on your own
Day 5: Berlin
Add this in-depth excursion:
Potsdam
Take a full-day excursion to Potsdam, where the postwar administration of Germany was decided at the 1945 Potsdam Conference. Potsdam was also the royal playground of Frederick the Great of Prussia; see baroque palaces, pavilions and the royal residence’s gardens. Take a guided visit inside either Sanssouci or Cecilienhof.
Day 6: Berlin
🔹 Independent exploration: Spend a half day exploring Berlin on your own
Enjoy dinner in Berlin
Visit the Reichstag, now a literal symbol of political transparency, and climb to the top roof terrace and massive glass dome
Day 7: Depart for home
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