Final-year school trip to Berlin: the Reichstag, the Berlin Wall, Potsdam and Sachsenhausen (7 days)

Day 1: Departure from your school and arrival in Berlin

• Departure from your school early in the morning, at the time agreed with you.
• Daytime drive via Cologne, Hanover and Magdeburg (about 650 to 850 km depending on your school, 8 to 10 hours excluding stops).
• Our drivers drive for a maximum of 3 hours, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.
• Arrival in Berlin in the early evening, check-in at the accommodation for six nights, dinner and quiet evening.

Day 2: Historic Berlin

• The Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden and the Gendarmenmarkt.
• The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and its underground information centre.
• Lunch at your own expense, then Museum Island and Berlin Cathedral; visit to the Neues Museum and the bust of Nefertiti (on request).
• At the end of the day, visit to the glass dome of the Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag (free, with prior registration).
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 3: Berlin, a divided city

• The Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße, with its preserved section of wall and death strip.
• Checkpoint Charlie and the Topography of Terror documentation centre, on the site of the former Gestapo headquarters.
• Lunch at your own expense, then interactive visit to the DDR Museum (on request).
• Cruise on the Spree between the government quarter and Museum Island, then walk along the East Side Gallery.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 4: The Sachsenhausen memorial and Kreuzberg

• Drive to Oranienburg (about 35 km, 45 min).
• Visit to the Sachsenhausen memorial and museum, a former Nazi concentration camp, with a specialist guide (on request).
• Return to Berlin and lunch at your own expense.
• Afternoon in Kreuzberg and on the Tempelhofer Feld, the former airlift airport turned into a vast park.
• Dinner and supervised evening.

Day 5: Potsdam, city of the Prussian kings

• Drive to Potsdam (about 35 km, 45 min) and walk through Sanssouci Park, its terraces and gardens.
• Visit to Sanssouci Palace, summer residence of Frederick the Great (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense in the Dutch Quarter.
• Visit to Cecilienhof Palace, where the Potsdam Conference was held in 1945 (on request), then stop at the Glienicke Bridge, the ‘Bridge of Spies’.
• Return to Berlin for dinner and supervised evening.

Day 6: The Stasi, Alexanderplatz and last day in Berlin

• Guided tour of the Hohenschönhausen memorial, the former Stasi prison (on request).
• Alexanderplatz and a trip up the TV Tower, more than 200 metres high (on request).
• Lunch at your own expense, then supervised free time between the Hackesche Höfe and the Kurfürstendamm, at the foot of the Memorial Church.
• Dinner and last supervised evening in Berlin.

Day 7: Return to Belgium

• Departure after breakfast.
• Daytime drive back to Belgium with regular stops.
• Lunch at your own expense during a stop on the way.
• Arrival at your school in the evening.