Thursday, 5/28 Berlin, Germany

Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany

BERLIN'S TOP 10 BY EXPRESS TRAIN (13 hours) excursion

Depart the pier and take a short walk to the train station and board your exclusively chartered standard train for an approximate 2 1/2 to 3 hour journey to Berlin. Upon arrival at one of Berlin's train stations, your local tour guide will welcome and assist you to board your coach. Depart on an exciting tour of Berlin, covering the top ten highlights of this bustling city. Photo stops will be made at the East Side Gallery, a 3/4 mile long section of the Berlin wall, Checkpoint Charlie and at the Bebelplatz where below the ground level, lies the Empty Library. You'll pass by the Potsdamer Platz, formerly a no man's land between East and West where the first gap in the Berlin Wall was made in 1989, and which today is a pristine block of futuristic glass-and-steel skyscrapers.

A few blocks from here, at the Holocaust Memorial, you'll have another opportunity for a photo stop before making your way over the famous Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag government building. After enjoying a traditional German pub-style lunch at a local restaurant, you'll have an outside visit of Charlottenburg Palace, the oldest surviving Prussian palace. Then drive into the former western part of Berlin, along the Kurfuerstendamm, where you'll pass by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the largest department store on the continent of Europe, the KaDeWe. Continue past Berlin's main train station with more than 80 shops that are open seven days a week. Also, see the Victory column commemorating the Prussian victories. Transfer to the station for your return journey to Warnemunde.

The Berlin Wall