Final-year school trip to Berlin: Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, the Wall and East Side Gallery (6 days)

Day 1 : Departure from your school

• Departure on Sunday afternoon or evening from your school.
• Overnight journey to Germany (about 8 hours on the road, excluding stops) with two drivers taking turns on board (double crew).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.

Day 2 : Arrival in Berlin, at the heart of history

• Arrival in Berlin on Monday morning and breakfast.
• Walk along Unter den Linden to the Brandenburg Gate, a symbol of division and then of reunification.
• The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and its 2,711 concrete slabs.
• Visit to the glass dome of the Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag, with prior registration.
• Check-in at the accommodation for four nights and dinner.

Day 3 : Berlin, a city cut in two

• The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse: the last preserved section, with its no man's land and watchtower.
• Checkpoint Charlie, the former crossing point between the American and Soviet sectors.
• Visit to the Topography of Terror documentation centre, on the site of the former Gestapo and SS headquarters.
• Afternoon at the East Side Gallery, more than 1.3 km of the Wall covered in murals along the Spree.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4 : Museum Island and today's Berlin

• Walk on Museum Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and past Berlin Cathedral.
• Visit to the Neues Museum and the bust of Nefertiti (on request).
• Alexanderplatz and the TV Tower, the emblem of East Berlin.
• Supervised free time in the Hackesche Höfe, the inner courtyards of the Mitte district.
• Dinner and group evening.

Day 5 : Potsdam or a day in Berlin

• Excursion to Potsdam and Sanssouci Palace (on request).
• About 45 min from Berlin, Sanssouci Park and the summer residence of Frederick the Great are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Otherwise, a supervised free day in Berlin: the Kurfürstendamm, the Memorial Church and its preserved ruins, Potsdamer Platz.
• Last evening in Berlin.

Day 6 : Return to school

• Rooms vacated after breakfast, luggage loaded onto the coach.
• Departure from Berlin in the morning, daytime drive back to Belgium with two drivers taking turns and regular stops.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.