berlin is the biggest city in germany and it was once divided into east and west by a wall
now it's back together again and we're gonna spend 12 hours
exploring everything the city has to offer it's time to start the clock and let's go
this is checkpoint charlie and it's the most famous crossing point between east and west
germany it did not allow people from the west side of germany to get to the more free east
side this crossing point lasted from 1947 to 1991 right beside checkpoint charlie is a museum called
the mauer museum which explains more about the history of checkpoint charlie in detail
we're starting the morning off at Brezel Bar which is a pretzel place
and it's right beside the bike rentals so we went here first pretzel quality is pretty
good they're not too expensive either great to have your pretzel in germany
since berlin is such a big city we're gonna have to rent bikes
to get through it much faster we rented our bikes at a rental place near tempelhoferfeld
which is the first spot we're going to check out
this is an abandoned airport that was built during world war ii and they built it to be
really huge to impress all the visitors coming into germany at the time and if we go even before
this this was the site that was actually used to fly some of the world's first ever aircraft
the airport was never fully complete and even though the outside looks pretty well finished
the inside it still has a lot of work to do and they never actually got to using the airport
this area is very popular among berliners and tourists
and the city once wanted to make a commercial area in this airport but
a lot of berliners made a petition to keep it and it's going to stay intact until at least 2024.
this is a really big area and it's perfect to explore while you're on a bike because you can
just go around all of it much faster this area is home to some music festivals half the time
a short bike ride away are two very famous spots in berlin to eat the first one is
curry 36 for a currywurst and the second one is mustafa's gemuse kebab for a big kebab
we're heading towards the city now we headed north and the next spot we're checking out
is the topography of terror this is a site that has still the berlin while remaining here and
it also shows a bunch of photos and it talks about a lot of history behind the berlin wall
so at this site it gives all the facts about what happened before the war leading up to the war
after the war and just to summarize berlin was becoming europe's most attractive
metropolis until it got hit hard in 1929 and people were beginning to lose trust in
the government so that led rise to a new party i'm not sure if i can say this word so
let's call them the n party led by a man with the initials ah after people stopped losing trust and
the n party started to get more seats that's when the rise of it all happened
from there we're heading to podsdamer platz where you can walk around the square
we went to panoramapunkt which is a tall building overlooking berlin
there's also a cafe inside here is also the fastest elevator in europe
at the top you can also read some facts about the history of berlin
for lunch across from potsdamer platz is a street food area
and also burgermeister where you can get some good burgers
now we're here at the memorial to the murder jews of europe this was built in
2004 and it has 2711 memorials which was the most that could possibly be fit in this area
this is also the first time the word murder was used by the german government
to describe what was done to the jews during world war ii
just a short trip away and you have the famous brandenburg gate
this gate was once a symbol of division because it was an area
where neither the east or west berliners could go but now it's a symbol of peace and unity also
it's a nice entrance to the tier garden which is where we're going next
so now we biked over to schloss charlottenburg which is the largest palace in all of berlin
biking down the unter der linden we headed to
gerdandenmarkt which is the very famous christmas market area
and if you keep going down unter der linden then you have museum island and this is a nice park and
also berlin is home to 170 different types of museums and this island is home to a lot of them
the most popular museums in berlin are the pergamon museum and the altis museum
when you're near the brandenburg gate the richstag museum which is where the government
is in berlin that's a good one to check out too and they have a free lookout dome at the top
now it's dinner time and we're chilling in the area just north of the river in mitte and there's
a lot of cool restaurants bars here that you can check out so we're gonna go find a restaurant
we ended up choosing chicken buzz which is a big chicken restaurant here and the food
is looking so yummy the popcorn chicken is out of this world
that's the end of the 12 hours in berlin i hope you enjoyed this video and comment your
favorite spots in berlin please like and subscribe and i'll see you in the next one