Germany: Berlin to Bavaria - Tailor Made

GERMANY: BERLIN TO BAVARIA

Germany – beautiful mountains, romantic castles, and vibrant, youthful cities. Forget London – Paris –and New York – next stop BERLIN and MUNICH (and everywhere in between)!

Itinerary

• Day 1: Travel from America

• Day 2: WELCOME TO BERLIN!

  On your first day we work our way west, from Museum island , see a ghost metro station beforing arriving ath the iconic BRANDENBURG GATE, a place where citizens literally pulled down the Berlin Wall in 1989. The tour finishes at the REICHSTAG, home to the German parliament.

• Day 3: Checkpoint Charlie/Museum Island

  See HITLER’s BUNKER where you will learn about his last moments. See the controversial HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL, its monumental size awing all who walk into its labyrinth. End at CHECKPOINT CHARLIE and hear stories of miraculous escapes from East Berlin when the city was still divided. In the afternoon, visit MUSEUM ISLAND. See NEFERTITI, the stunning beauty from 3400 hundred years ago at the Altes Museum, and be literally transported to Ancient Greece at the PERGAMON MUSEUM, a temple from 2nd Century, with friezes of colossal giants fighting it out.

• Day 4: POTSDAM

  Famous site of the Potsdam Conference in 1945 and Frederick the Great’s SCHLOSS SANSSOUCI. You will tour the gorgeous gardens before visiting and THE NEW PALACE OF SANSSOUCI (built in 1763), where you can slip and slide on its gorgeous marble floors and see a room wallpapered with seashells

• Day 5/6: LEIPZIG AND WEIMAR

  Go to Leipzig where you can take in a concert of one of its former residents including: BACH, WAGNER AND MENDELSSOHN. We will also visit the HEADQUARTERS OF THE GERMAN SECRET POLICE. Then we go to the storybook town of WEIMAR which dates back to 899 and was home to GOETHE, SCHILLER AND LISZT.

• Day 7/8: BEAUTIFUL BAVARIA AND MUNICH

  We travel along the ROMANTICHES STRASSE with stops at medieval picturesque towns, FAIRY TALE CASTLES and views of the AWE INSPIRING ALPS. You will be snap happy in what is easily the most scenic parts of all of Germany.

  MUNICH is Germany’s most prosperous city, the Paris of Germany, and Bavaria’s heart and soul. Toy museums, the world famous GLOCKENSPIEL at the New Town Hall, home to BMW and the OLYMPIC PARK, Munich is as modern as it is traditional.

• Day 9:

  Return home.

Dates

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