Germany's travel web site has information on trip planning, including a map, brochures, and a free newsletter.
Travelers will also find a detailed explanation of celebrations for 2009, 20 years after the fall of the wall, which can be downloaded as a PDF.
Other useful links on the site include: Castles, Parks and Gardens; Saving Money; Trails for Religious Travelers; and Trails for Young People.
Visit ComeToGermany or call the German National Tourist office in New York at 212-661-7200.
When web sites come up in German, look for the word English or a flag of the USA or Great Britain. Click for English.
Berlin has its own web site, VisitBerlin. For tours, consider walking (www.MauerGuide.com), biking, the underground, and riding in a Trabi (www.trabi-safari.de). The Trabi holds four people, but not four big people. If you want to drive, you'll have to be able to handle a loose standard transmission on the steering column. Price for a one-hour tour is $38-$50 depending on the number of people in the car.
Other Cold War sites in Germany include Eisenach and Magdeburg. For Point Alpha and other attractions in the state of Thueringen.
Top events in 2009 are Leipzig's celebrations for the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn; Halle's festival for the 250th birthday of George Frederic Handel; the opening of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart; and the 90th anniversary of the Bauhas design in the town of www.weimer.de.
In November 2009, New York's Museum of Modern Arts will exhibit Bauhas design.
-- David Molyneaux
The Germany Page for vacation destinations
Back in Berlin again, 20 years after the fall of the wall.
Poking about pieces of the old Berlin Wall
Guns, dogs, and fear along the old Iron Curtain
When East met West on peaceful soil in 1989
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