Take a Bike Tour and other Berlin, Germany Things to Do Tips

I took Fat Tire's city bike tour and would recommend it to everyone. It gives you an overview of the city while stopping at major landmarks to snap pictures and learn about the history. The tour is good in letting you figure out which places you may want to go back and explore on your own time. We also stopped at a beer garden in the Tiergarten where we had lunch. This allowed time to mingle with the other riders and enjoy some great german food and beer. I had originally planned on taking the Cold War and Berlin Wall tour on another day, but I ran out of time and felt as if I had explored most of that on my own. I will take that tour during my next visit.

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Address: Alexanderplatz
Directions: Next to the TV tower in Alexanderplatz

The Hamburger Bahnhof is a contemporary art museum located in an old train station. The space is beautiful, and even if the show going on at the time you are there isn't so great, it is worth a trip just to check out the interior. I happened upon a great exhibit, which made my visit all the more pleasurable. Don't miss the restaurant, a little pricey but the food is great.

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Address: Invalidenstrasse 50-51
Website: http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de

Only a 45 minute trip outside of the city, this grim reminder of Europe's dark past awaits. Saschenhausen was the model camp of all other nazi era concentration camps and, sadly, many of the survivors here went on to be exterminated at Auschwitz. I took the self guided tour with the headphones available at the front desk and would suggest this for others. You can speed along in sections where you aren't as interested and listen to more stories at parts where you are more interested. It's quite a sad experience, but life changing in its own way. I think all the racist folks in the world should be forced to tour a concentration camp, it may change their way of thinking. Seeing the execution platform and the ovens is something I will never forget.

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Address: Oranienburg
Directions: a walk through the quiet town off of the s-bahn in oranienburg.