The concomitant Schedule at a Glance Date Forenoon Afternoon Sunday, 16th City Tour by Bus Old and New Berlin Start: 18:30 o clock; 3 h; 32,00 Monday, 17th City of Design Start: 10:00 o clock; 3 h; 30,00 Jewish Berlin Start: 14:00 o clock; 3 h; 27,50 Boat Trip Berlin by the Water Start: 10:00 o clock; 3 h; 67,00 Tuesday, 18th World Cultural Heritage The Isle of Museums Start: 10:00 o clock; 3 h; 30,00 City Tour by Bus Old and New Berlin Start: 18:30 o clock; 3 h; 32,00 Videobustour (multimedia bus) Time-Travelling through Berlin Start: 18:30 o clock; 3 h; 42,50 Wednesday, 19th Magic of the Backyards Start: 10:00 o clock; 3 h; 25,00 Cooking Event New Berlin Cuisine Start: 14:00 o clock; 3 h; 79,00 Thursday, 20th Cinema on Wheels (multimedia bus) Cinema City Berlin Start: 10:00 o clock; 3 h; 45,00 The tours always start and end at the main entrance of the ICC Berlin. All prices include the bus transfers and 19% VAT. It is possible to cancel tours exempt from charges until August, 16th. Afterwards no recompense will be possible. There is a necessary minimum of 25 participants in each tour. The agency Zeitreisen reserves its right to cancel a tour, if less than 25 people have applied. In this case the full price would be recompensed to the applicants. For Reservations please contact the agency Zeitreisen www.zeit-reisen.de Email ak@zeit-reisen.de Fon + 49 (0) 30 / 44 02 44 50 Fax + 49 (0) 30 / 44 02 44 48
Descriptions of the Tours Tour on Sunday, 16th Old and New Berlin: City Tour by Bus Old or new, east or west, gaudy or decayed: Berlin has many faces. The tour shows the contrasts of the city. Different stopovers and short promenades allow a deeper insight. In the focus of the bus tour are several squares and streets, which are both famous and antithetic: Gendarmenmarkt, Schlossplatz, Alexanderplatz, Platz der Republik and Potsdamer Platz. Tours on Monday, 17th City of Design Since January 2006 Berlin is officially known as the up to now only European metropolis with the title City of Design. Through this choice of the UNESCO, Berlin has changed its image from an arcane hot spot to the well-known European capital of art, design and fashion. There are about 6.300 companies of young designers, couturiers and architects located in Berlin. By visiting some selected galleries and studios you will learn about the fusion concept, which is typically for Berlin. Enjoy some exclusive insights, look behind the scenes and discuss the newest trends and developments with a youngster from the design business. Jewish Berlin Berlin is a city that was strongly shaped by Jewish traditions. On the tour we will meet Jewish history from the middle ages up to the present. Many traces of Jewish life in Berlin have been destroyed but some still exist. We ll find remains of the first Synagogue and the first Jewish cemetery in Berlin, the Jewish school and hospital. Afterwards we will visit the famous Neue Synagoge with the golden cupola. Finally we are going to visit a very secret spot: a hiding place for Jewish people from 1941-1943 in an old building near Hackescher Markt. Start: 14:00 o clock at the main entrance of the ICC
Boat-Trip: Berlin by the Water Berlin has more waterways than Venice. The river Spree takes you directly along Berlin s main sights. Enjoy unusual glances at the city from an historical steamer of the thirties. The Tour we would recommend starts near the city centre on the historical Oberbaumbrücke and would end at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This allows you an excellent survey of the history of Berlin, including those of the Wall, the Isle of Museums, the Parliament and the new Chancellery. Enjoy Berlin from an unusual perspective and without any traffic problems. Our Zeitreisen-Guides will entertain you with inventive and exciting stories. Tours on Tuesday, 18 th World Cultural Heritage: The Isle of Museums The Isle of Museums, World Cultural Heritage since 1996, is an unique ensemble of buildings like Altes Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Pergamonmuseum or the Bode-Museum, which has only been opened for a short time. Explore the Isle in an especially intensive manner. Experts will guide us to the highlights of the Isle: the buste of Nofretete (Nefertiti), the altar of Pergamon and the masterpieces of Claude Monet something for everybody to acquire a taste for it. But have also an insight into the other highlights of the museums islands: for example the Berliner Dom, the huge cathedral built by the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II.
Videobustour: The Time Travel Shuttle A totally new tourism experience it s amazing that no one came up with this sooner (RBB Evening News, April 29, 2004) The Time Travel Shuttle makes Berlin s history clear and animated. This is a totally new city tour by bus. The bus is outfitted with flat screens. While at the historical places, the screens present film sequences and play sound recordings which will be explained by a historian. So it will be easy to compare the present with the past. This combination of city bus tour and historic film footage in one is unique in Europe. Via the screens on the bus, you ll see the former City Palace while on site at the Palace Square; You can look into the interior of Hitler s Reich Chancellery; Drive with John F. Kennedy through Berlin, and see the Wall fall again! Old and New Berlin: City Tour by Bus Old or new, east or west, gaudy or decayed: Berlin has many faces. The tour shows the contrasts of the city. Different stopovers and short promenades allow a deeper insight. In the focus of the bus tour are several squares and streets, which are both famous and antithetic: Gendarmenmarkt, Schlossplatz, Alexanderplatz, Platz der Republik and Potsdamer Platz. Tours on Wednesday, 19 th Magic of the Backyards No other quarter in Berlin offers so many stories and images, so many curios and so much mediativeness, as the area called Scheunenviertel around of the Hackesche Höfe and the Oranienburger Straße. On our walkabout we want to search beyond the normal tourist routes and take a look behind the facades. In the focus are the magical backyards, the Jewish Quarter and the artist s milieu in the district Berlin-Mitte.
Cooking Event: New Berlin Cuisine Please follow us on a culinary expedition! A young German cooking team the media already call them the Oliver Jamies of Berlin initiates you in the characteristic and noteworthiness of the Berlin and German cuisine. You will recognise this cuisine as much better than its reputation - Berlin Boulette und potato salad as a special experience! The collective cooking will become a mutual communicative event, a cooking party supported by the coolness of the extraordinary chef de cuisine and the smooth sound of the music. Discover your own creativity and regale yourself with the delicious outcomes of your efforts. The event takes place in a typical Loft in a Berlin backyard. If the weather is good, we will dine in the backyard. Start: 14:00 o clock at the main entrance of the ICC Tour on Thursday, 20 th Movies made in Berlin: The Cinema on Wheels The Oscar for the German film The life of the others has proven: The Cinema City Berlin is attractive as never before. Numerous Films in the past and the present utilize the city as film location and backdrop. A bus will bring you to some well-known film locations and show you the most exciting scenes filmed there. The tour includes famous movies like The life of the others (Oscar in 2006); Good bye Lenin, Run, Lola, run and many more. The scenes will be shown on video screens in the bus, which were transformed into a Cinema on Wheels before.