Join best-selling author Rory MacLean in Berlin with 3(for2) self-guided tours

Duration20m - 2h 30m

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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted

LanguagesEnglish

Private tourOnly your group will participate

Overview

Discover Berlin's grandest boulevard, Tom Cruise's favourite sausage stand, Museum Island, the Reichstag, and the Jewish Memorial at your own pace with a self-guided GPS audio tour. Explore parts of the city you'd only heard of in the movies and history books with three audio tours by best-selling author Rory MacLean (Berlin: Imagine a City, Stalin's Nose, and Pravda Ha Ha).

Rory has known three Berlins: West Berlin where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, East Berlin where he researched his first bestseller, and now the unified capital. Dive into his Berlin when you buy all three of his tours for the price of two!

The three routes include a tour of Kurfürstendamm - the capital's grandest boulevard; a tour of Museum Island; and a tour of Berlin's often tumultuous and endlessly fascinating history which unfolds in the city centre. All of which you can explore on your own schedule and at your own pace.

What's included

VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
Lifetime access to the tours in English
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

Smartphone and headphones
Transportation
Food and drink
Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

What to expect

Berlin
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The three tours take place in Berlin
Kurfurstendamm
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The Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour takes place in Kurfurstendamm.
Breitscheidplatz
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The Breitscheidplatz square is part of the Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.

If it's Christmas time, you'll see around you one of Berlin's biggest Weihnachtsmarkts. If it's springtime, you may be surrounded by an Easter fair.
Bikini Berlin
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You'll see the relatively new 'concept' shopping mall called Bikini Berlin. You can pop into its designer shops and the self-proclaimed 'ultrahip' 25Hours Hotel for a drink in the so-called Monkey Bar, which overlooks the Zooilogischer Garten.

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
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You'll visit the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtiskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Chuch. It was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943 and rebuilt in the early 1960s. Its stained glass was designed by the French artist Gabriel Loire and it's among the most beautiful -- and soothing -- in the world.

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
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Bier’s Ku’damm 195 is where former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, tennis star Boris Becker and even Tom Cruise munched on currywurst and you can too!

From Ku'damm: Haute Couture and Currywurst tour.
Museum Island
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The A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour takes place on - you guessed it! - Museum Island.
Lustgarten
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Start the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour next to the fountain at Lustgarten.
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Walk through Werderscher Market.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Altes Museum
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The Altes Museum – which was opened in 1830 – was one of the first purpose-built museums in Europe. It was created to house the royal collection of sculptures, paintings and antiques and was conceived to be pedagogic, exhibiting art both to educate and to aggrandise the nation.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Neues Museum
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Its history of the museum is fascinating. Friedrich August Stüler’s neoclassical building was erected in 1847. During the Second World War, it was badly damaged. After the reunification, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation – along with other government bodies – chose not to simply restore the museum to its pre-war state. Instead, they decided to preserve its strange chronology – to quote Chipperfield – by linking together original material, war-and weather-damaged sections as well as modern elements. The result is a museum that can be read like a history book. The fabric of the building tells the story of Berlin.

From A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Bode-Museum
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You pass by the museum and at the end of A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour you have the opportunity to visit the museum.
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You'll pass by and have the opportunity to visit the museum at the end of the A Walk through Time on Museum Island tour.
Reichstag Building
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The Into the Heart of Berlin tour starts with a great view of the Reichstag from here. It's far from the oldest building in Berlin but it is one of the two or three structures that best evoke the city's torturous, and sometimes euphoric, history.
Brandenburg Gate
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You'll pass by the Brandenburg Gate and hear what it was like when Communist East Germany finally collapsed in 1989.

From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.
The Holocaust Memorial - Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
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Pass through the Jewish memorial and allow yourself to take in the 2,711 concrete stelae. Try to reflect on how architect Peter Eisenman positioned the outer slabs. They're low against the ground so that they seem to fan out into the whole city.

From Into the Heart of Berlin tour.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

The third tour starts at the fountain in the middle of the Lustgarten. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.

Meeting point

The second walk begins outside the Bundestag U-Bahn station, in front of the Reichstag. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.

Meeting point

You start the first tour outside Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station, on Tauentzienstrasse. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.

End point

End the third tour at Neues Museum

End point

End the second walk where the second world war ended.

End point

End the first tour at Tom Cruise's favourite sausage stand.

Additional information

Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.