The Berlin Wall and the Cold War – Bike Tour

This bike tour lets you relive the tense, tragic days of the Cold War, when the Iron Curtain fell on Berlin and a city was walled off from itself.

Bike from the West end of the city to the East Side Gallery, one of the last-standing stretches of the Wall, where the torture of a nation torn in two is scrawled in loud, emotional graffiti.

Read the Stalinist propaganda on the Soviet war monument at Treptower Park and bike through the haunting stretch of watchtowers that line the former deathstrip, where snipers trained their sights on people who defied the tyranny of the Wall.

Lunch in a historic old train station and discuss the circumstances of the Cold War era that made Berlin a center stage for international tensions.

Forget the strain of walking and cover lots of ground on a comfortable bike instead. Bike along the fault line that once divided East and West Germany, and discover the scars the country still bears. Hear stories about brazen escape attempts by those that dared to challenge the Wall Your bicycle will be a state of the art, comfortable cruiser. Cycling around Berlin allows you to cover more groundThe tour brings to life the events which split this great city in half. Tour is led by a knowledgeable English speaking guide.

There is no hotel-pick up. Please make your way to the main entrance of the TV Tower in Alexander platz, 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.

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.

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