Day 2 of our package tour started of with a visit to theTV Tower, where we are able to have a birdseye view of Berlin.
With the full day hop on hop off bus tickets provided by our tour package, we next started exploring Berlin on foot, free and easy on our own. And while along our journey taking snapshots of anything that interest us.
Our 1st stop was the magnificent Brandenburg Gate.
We were lucky that when we reach there, it seems there is som festivity going on and we induldged ourselves in their joyous occasion too.
Located on the western part of Berlin city centre, the Brandenburg Gate was built in the 18th century by the then King to commemorate the successful restoration of order during the early Batavian Revolution.
And me having some fun with a pretzel that I bought there.
Going straight out of the Brandenburg Gate all the way left across the street lays the Memorial of the Murdered Jews in Europe as Berlin is a city that had one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe before the Second World War.
Consisting of 2711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping its buidling was completed on December 15, 2004 and was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II.
It's resemblance to a cemetery and abstract installation leaves room for interpretation. The most common being that of a graveyard. The memorial evokes a graveyard for those who were unburied or thrown into unmarked pits, and several uneasily tilting stelae suggest an old, untended, or even desecrated cemetery. Visitors have described the monument as isolating, triggered by the massive blocks of concrete, barricading the visitor from street noise and sights of Berlin.
We then hop on the city tour bus again to our final and most important destination of this Berlin trip.
An arriving at one of the key landmark in Berlin today, the longest section of the Berlin Wall that is still kept as a memorial.
Do watch the videos within as I shared some interesting information about the wall as it is today.
We then made our way back to our hotel at the Grand Hyatt where we will be having our farewell dinner with all fellow travelers before we part the next day. And just some parting shots in Berlin.
And having our farewell dinner.
After 2 full days of our package tour, a very educational and enriching experience of Berlin, Germany, we left the next day having now a better understand of its heritage and a little more of its history that transform her into such a great and strong country today.
