Day 7 in Berlin - Underground Berlin

Berlin - We booked the Berlin underground tour at 3.30pm. We booked the Tour M – Under the Berlin Wall.

Tour M

Nick, the tour guide and was explaining how the Berlin wall split families on both sides of the wall. This was a 2hr tour and offers countless historical insights, but this tour of the Berlin Underground was an experience like no other. The tour, organised by Berliner Unterwelten, took us on a gripping journey beneath the Berlin Wall, revealing hidden secrets and untold stories of the city's past.

Nick gave a history lesson from the end of the WW2 till the fall of the Berlin wall and it was done in 2 parts. The 1st part of the tour was done at our current location, moving through tunnels, bending around corners. Nick explained that the tunnels bend left to right around huge columns to prevent bomb blast during WW2 from killing many people.

We were not allowed to take photos inside the tunnels.

Sewage cover

The sewage was one of the ways East Berliners used to escape to the West.

The tunnels were cold and damp

Hydraulic cables used to pull the carriage

Carriage used to move dirt from tunnels back to West Berlin

close up of the carriage

At night, we watched the Spain vs England EURO 2024 football final and it was played in Berlin, predicted correctly that Spain will win.

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