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Berlin: The City Experience

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7 days

Berlin, extension to Hamburg


Berlin’s storied past is firmly embedded in a vibrant contemporary culture. Stand in the Nazi headquarters one moment, and navigate the city's eco-friendly infrastructure the next. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, this city has evolved into one of the most eclectic, exciting and multicultural communities in Europe. Discover the many ways to contemplate the past, enjoy the present and dream of the future.

🔹 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

Day 2: Berlin

Meet your Field Director at the destination airport

Take 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

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


Learning outcomes on this program

Confidence • Curiosity • Global perspective • Empathy • Adaptability • Relatability • Self-Awareness

Academic resources

With this program, you get access to our Global Learning Resources, which include:

  • Discussion questions

  • Sample assignments

  • Journal prompts

  • Webinars

  • EF's Global Competency Assessment, a pre- and post-program assessment to measure competency development

See the resources you get

Your experience includes

Transportation
Accommodations
Select meals
End-to-end support
EF Global Learning Toolkit
Field Director
Guided exploration
Field Visits

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