Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin (Travel Guide)
Lonely Planet
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1742208819
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet's Pocket Berlin is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ponder reunified Germany at the Brandenburg Gate, view the city from Reichstag's dazzling glass cupola, or catch a live music gig at a riverside beach bar; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Berlin and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Berlin:
- Full-colour maps and images throughout
- Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Free, convenient pull-out Berlin map (included in print version), plus over 20 colour neighbourhood maps
- User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time
- Covers Reichstag, Unter den Linden, Museum Island, Alexanderplatz, Potsdamer Platz, Scheunenviertel, Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Kurfurstendamm, and more
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Pocket Berlin, a colorful, easy-to-use, and handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, provides on-the-go assistance for those seeking only the can't-miss experiences to maximize a quick trip experience.
- Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all of Berlin's neighbourhoods? Check out Lonely Planet's Berlin guide.
- Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Germany guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer, or Lonely Planet's Discover Germany, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet and Andrea Schulte-Peevers.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
here). To intensify the experience, head to Warschauer Strasse U-/S-Bahn station and study the colourful murals decorating the East Side Gallery (Click here), a 1.3km-long stretch of original Wall. For lunch, train it back to Alexanderplatz and either go hearty at Zur Letzten Instanz (Click here) or healthy at Dolores (Click here). Launch the afternoon’s sightseeing with peeking into daily life east of the Iron Curtain at the DDR Museum (Click here), then digest your impressions on a one-hour
blues lovers with tunes and booze for over a century. There’s live music several times weekly, cold beer on tap and German comfort food till 1am. Curry 36 Day after day, night after night, a motley crowd of tattooed scenesters, ‘tie’d-up’ office jockeys, noisy schoolkids and savvy tourists wait their turn at Curry 36 (Mehringdamm 36; sausages around €2; 9am-5am). Considered one of the top Currywurst purveyors in town, this once-humble-gone-high-tech stand has been frying ’em up since the
Don’t Miss National Monument Honouring the memory of Berlin Wall victims is a 70m section of original wall bounded by two rusted steel flanks. Beyond is a reconstructed ‘death strip’ complete with a sandy path once patrolled by motorised guards, the lamps that bathed it in fierce light at night, and a guard tower. Berliner Mauer Dokumentationszentrum For a sweeping overview of the monument and adjacent grounds, climb to the viewing platform of the Berlin Wall Documentation Center.
inventive and fresh, the Indo-Chinese menu has few false notes. The modest list of options is supplemented by daily specials, and the homemade mango lassi is rave-worthy. (Grünberger Strasse 69; mains €5-9; U-Bahn Frankfurter Tor) 6 Burgeramt American € Offline map Google map You may need to pack a little patience at this beloved patty provider but the juiciness is worth the wait. (Krossener Strasse 22; mains €3-5; noon-1am; U-Bahn Frankfurter Tor; U-/S-Bahn Warschauer Strasse) Drinking
‘Jurassic Park’. (Click here) Museum für Film und Fernsehen An entertaining romp through German celluloid history. (Click here) Museum für Fotografie Spotlight on the oeuvre of fashion and lifestyle photographer Helmut Newton. (Click here) Best Antiquities Pergamonmuseum Treasure trove of monumental architecture from ancient civilisations. (Click here) Altes Museum Gorgeous Schinkel building sheltering priceless Greek, Etruscan and Roman art and sculpture. (Click here) Neues Museum Pay