Getting around!
If you enter Berlin through Zoo Bahnhof (Zoologischer Garten Bahnhof) brace yourself for a let down – it’s not exactly beautiful and you may wonder why you travelled all the way over the northern flat plans (i.e. rear end) of Europe to get here. Just think 30 years ago it looked great (!) having served as the gateway to the glamour and freedom of west Berlin. Don’t despair, you can put your gear in the luggage lockers (1€ to 2 € a day) then either: orientate yourself over breakfast by the real Zoo at the pleasant Schleusenkrug Café on the canal (from 10 am); wander up to the Tourist Office for general information; or jump right into it and join our Famous Insider Walking Tour opposite the Station for a complete introduction straight off the bat – ("Berlin in a nutshell" Lonely Planet). Read more »Welcome to the INSIDER WALKING and BIKE TOURS BERLIN
Insider Tours are known internationally for truly dynamic, intriguing and engaging tours of our fascinating city - Berlin. The Insider Tour team are recognized as market leaders and for delivering brilliant non-scripted tours drawing on the unique perspectives of their own professional expertise which range from formidable military service, architecture, art history, archaeology and more. For us insider is more than just a name - we want you to know Berlin like one!
You'll get to stand over the exact location of Hitler's Bunker, touch the Berlin Wall, pass through the intersection of Checkpoint Charlie and more!
An exciting and in-depth account of life in the GDR - from secret files, Stasi surveillance, State propaganda, daily work and life onto the collapse of the Stalinistic regime and fate of its key figures...
Sachsenhausen served as the administrative core of the entire holocaust, visit this harrowing place which served to execute the radical plans of racial extermination and genocide of large swathes of society the Nazis deemed unfit for life.