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                <title>Alternative Berlin tour</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Outstanding tour taking you to places you would never find yourself. Loads of street art, scorching graffiti. Abandoned places, funky shops, markets. Hidden neighborhoods and cultural icons. These are the places locals go to. You'll hardly see a tourist all day. They offer a brilliant night tours as well: bars/clubs/secret spots. These guys know their stuff.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Using city buses 100 and 200 to see Berlin</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[City bus tours can be expensive but routes 100 and 200 in Berlin are regular (double-decker) services which pass most of the main sights in the city centre. Buy a pack of tickets (which can also be used on the S-bahn and U-bahn) and get on and off where you want.]]></description>
                
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                <title>A three hour boat trip</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A true circular tour, only 100m duplicated, along the Spree and a canal. The tour continues through the very centre of Berlin, under bridges so low you have to duck on the top deck, up and down in locks,and and re-crossing the line of the Wall. Commentary is in German only, but you don't need it.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Insider Tours</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[These people offer various walking and cycling tours around Berlin. The guides are all native English speakers and are extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of Berlin.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Berlin Walks</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Competent, articulate guides expedite you to interesting sites....esp Nazi WWII]]></description>
                
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                <title>Palast der Republik tours</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Palast der Republik's ugly copper shell is a familiar site to anyone who has been to this part of Berlin. A former parliament building for the GDR, it was built by Erich Honicker to show off the wonders of socialism to international visitors. Since 1990 it's been closed because of problems caused by (British-supplied) asbestos. This has now been stripped out - along with much of the interior in preparation for redevelopment, and the building is now safe for visitors. <br><br>Tours are conducted, in German only. They run hourly on weekend afternoons during September and October, ahead of the building's demolition next year.]]></description>
                
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                <title>A short circular tour outside the main tourist sights</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This trip can be done with a day ticket (tageskarte) or with a small group ticket (kleingruppekarte) for 3-5 people. Allow about 2 hours 30 minutes, but longer if you want to stop off. Take the U8 from Alexanderplatz to Boddinstrasse, then the 104 bus marked 'Neu Westend' from the stop outside Woolworths, but before you do look inside Woolworths (seriously) at the painted ceiling - it was once the Kindl beer hall and restaurant. <br><br>Try and sit upstairs left on the bus which goes past: the Turkish Mosque, the American airlift plane, Templehof airport (the longest building in Europe), the airlift memorial, Schoneburg Town hall (where JFK made his famous speech), Wilmersdorf, Halensee Lake, the former Avus race track and buildings, the Funkturm radio tower (you can climb it), exhibition centre and Neu Westend. From here you can take U2 back to Alexanderplatz.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Walking Tour</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's a three-hour walking tour and starts just outside the Branderburg gate with a local guide. Our's turned out to be an English bloke who'd been living in Berlin for a few years as part of his post-graduate degree. He was working weekends to earn some spare cash. Apparently some of the guides have formed a sort of clique whereby they get people recommended to them by word of mouth and you can pay them whatever you fancy at the end of the tour (if you like what you've seen and heard along the way, of course!). <br><br>Our Guide was extremely knowledgeable and spoke at great length about a diverse range of topics to do with Germany and Berlin in particular (including the QE2 connection, Hitler and quaint watering holes in Berlin). The walk was quite informative albeit a bit pacy and took in most of the recommended sights. Highly Recommended.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Trabi Safari</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Trabi Safari is a 90-minute guided tour around Berlin in one of the iconic former DDR cars. The highlight of this tour is that YOU are the driver. A great and fun way for you and three friends to see the city and engage with a piece of Berlin history.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Stasi Memorial Centre in Hohenschoenhausen</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Located on the eastern edge of the city, this is the old Stasi prison used to incarcerate political opponents of the regime. Guided tours of the complex by former inmates (in German only) reveal the GDR in all its chilling brutality and secrecy.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Brewer's Walking Tours</title>
                
                <link>http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/917</link>
                
                <description><![CDATA[A fascinating look into Berlin's tumultuous recent history and its glorious past. The tour takes in all the major landmarks, but what makes it extra special are the superb guides - they are knowledgeable, approachable, friendly and full of interesting anecdotes. They take you off the beaten track, revealing much of what made Berlin such a vast metropolis. You visit hitler's bunker, the largest remaining stretch of the Wall that still stands, Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburg Gate and the dizzying TV tower. You will never learn so much in 5 hours as you will by taking one of these tours. They are good value, perfectly paced and laden with enough facts to make up for the times you fell asleep during history lessons at school.]]></description>
                
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