Berlin: The City Experience
🔹 Curated experiences: Every program is intentionally designed to feature guided learning, cultural engagement, and independent exploration experiences to drive global competency development, denoted on each itinerary with a blue diamond. Learn more about these experiences.
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Day 1: Fly overnight to Germany
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Day 7: Depart for home
Add more days
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Day 7: Berlin • Hamburg
Travel to Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany and an up-and-coming destination for young professionals
Take a walking tour of lively Hamburg and learn about the city from your Field Director
Enjoy dinner in Hamburg
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Day 8: Hamburg
Tour Hamburg by boat and take in views of this maritime city’s prominent landmarks
🔹 Independent exploration: Spend a half day exploring Hamburg on your own
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Day 9: Depart for home
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Day 1: Fly overnight to Germany
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Day 7: Depart for home
Add more days
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Day 7: Berlin • Hamburg
Travel to Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany and an up-and-coming destination for young professionals
Take a walking tour of lively Hamburg and learn about the city from your Field Director
Enjoy dinner in Hamburg
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Day 8: Hamburg
Tour Hamburg by boat and take in views of this maritime city’s prominent landmarks
🔹 Independent exploration: Spend a half day exploring Hamburg on your own
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Day 9: Depart for home
Confidence • Curiosity • Global perspective • Empathy • Adaptability • Relatability • Self-Awareness
Your experience includes
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Round-trip airfare
Your price includes round-trip airfare for your whole group
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Accommodations
Safe, comfortable hotels with private bathrooms will be waiting for you at your destination.
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On-tour transportation
Land transportation
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Regional-style meals
Daily breakfasts and select local dinners are included in your program. Generally, we leave lunch up to you so your group has an opportunity to explore its own tastes.
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End-to-end support
Your team helps to secure administrative approval and academic credit, provides recruiting tools and helps establish your program's ongoing presence on campus.
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Full-time Field Director
Your Field Director is with your group 24/7, providing deep local insight while handling all program logistics.
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Expert Local Guides
Your expert Local Guides are natural historians, adding cultural insight and enhancing teaching moments wherever your curriculum takes you.
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Guided sightseeing
Gain insider knowledge and cultural perspective from licensed local guides who join your group for select experiences on tour.
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Entrances
Topography of Terror Museum, Reichstag, 3-day Berlin museum pass; with extension: Hamburg by boat
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Worldwide support, safety and security
EF has over 500 schools and offices in more than 50 countries worldwide. We provide 24-hour emergency support service along with a comprehensive $50 million liability policy that covers you and your institution while abroad.
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Flexible payment options
Give more students the opportunity to study abroad by offering them two different payment plan options, along with our TripFunder website to help fundraise for the program.
