Please make your way to the main entrance of the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz, where you will meet your native English-speaking tour guide and collect your bike for this Berlin Wall and Cold War Bike Tour.
With cushy seats, fat tires and handlebars that come up to meet you, your bike lets you navigate this cyclist-friendly city with the greatest of ease and comfort.
An expert guide will take you back to the strained, shadowy days on both sides of the Wall during the Cold War in this moving and educational ride through Berlin.
You will cover just eight lush and leisurely miles in five hours, feeling the exhilaration of the road without any of the exertion. Tours are suitable for all ages and fitness levels.
Stop every few hundred yards to learn from your guide about the most historically significant remains of the Cold War era.
Bike from West to East along the wide boulevard of the Karl-Marx-Allee, which typifies the socialist classicism of Soviet design.
Visit the imposing Soviet Cenotaph in Treptower Park, sure to be one of the most impressive sights on your European vacation. More than 3200 fallen Soviet troops are buried here and the reliefs lining the memorial are a textbook example of Stalinist propaganda. It‘s off the beaten tourist path, yet quite accessible by bike, and not to be missed.
Explore the East Side Gallery, a kilometer-long stretch of still-standing Wall, famous for its politically-charged graffiti that returns you to the agonies and frustrations of a nation divided. Take plenty of time to soak it in and pull out your camera to capture the most arresting images.
Retrace more than 5km of where the Wall once stood and learn about the differences and misunderstandings that still fester between former East and West Berlin. Listen intently to anecdotal tales of espionage and harrowing escape, many on the exact site where they actually took place. Bike by the last of the deathstrip watchtowers to comprehend the unimaginable risk taken by those that tried to cross over.
Even your lunch stop illustrates that fault lines that once sprawled between East and West, as you break for a bite at a charming café in the remains of an old train station split off from its tracks by the Wall.
Your tour will conclude where it started at the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz.