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A very inexpensive sightseeing tour can be done by taking the regular buses 100 and 200 from Bahnhof Zoo to Alexanderplatz.

You buy the tickets in the bus. You get single tickets valid for two hours, day and week tickets. Tickets are valid for all means of public transport in central Berlin.

Bus 100 takes you from Zoologischer Garten via Kurfuerstendamm, past Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtnis-Kirche, Schloss Bellevue, Tiergarten, Platz der Republik, Reichstag, Unter den Linden, Friedrichsstrasse, Staatsoper, Museuminsel, along Spandauer Strasse to Alexanderplatz.

Return by bus 200 and you pass Potsdamer Platz and the Philharmonie.

If you want to have a good seat in the double-decker, enter the bus one station before Bahnhof Zoo, in Hertzallee. Change to bus 200 one stop after Alexanderplatz in Memhardstrasse.

Bus 100 and 200 go both directions, you go from Alexanderplatz to Bahnhof Zoo or vice versa.

Regular city trips with multilingual guides start from Alexanderplatz and Kurfuerstendamm. You get tickets on the spot. With the Top Tour by the Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft - Berlin's public transport - and the CityCircle Sightseeing you can get off or enter the bus at every stop. Main departure stop for the Top Tour of the BVG is the Cafe Kranzler in Kurfuerstendamm 18.

You get printed travel guides, maps, cycling, hiking and boat maps here.

You find an online Berlin city map at www.berlin.de. Berlin transport's website www.bvg.de offers maps of the S-, U- and tram network as pdf-files to print, plus routes and timetables of buses and ferries.

You get tickets in the buses and trains from the vendings machines, at the stops and stations. Berlin transport BVG runs ticket and information counters in the larger stations, e.g. Bahnhof Zoo and Alexanderplatz. Tickets are valid for all means of public transport, depending on the type of ticket you have to pay extra for your bicycle. Berlin transport - Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft - gives more detailed information on its website: www.bvg.de.

By Boat

In Berlin you can go sightseeing by boat, along the Spree and Havel rivers, across canals and lakes.

From the Zeughaus at the Schlossbruecke every half hour ships leave for museums' island, Nikolai quarter and Potsdam square.

From Tegel and Spandau boats pass via lake Wannsee to Potsdam. From Treptow you go to Koepenick and to the Mueggelsee lakes.

You get printed travel guides, maps, cycling, hiking and boat maps here.

You find an online Berlin city map at www.berlin.de. Berlin transport's website www.bvg.de offers maps of the S-, U- and tram network as pdf-files to print, plus routes and timetables of buses and ferries.

You get tickets in the buses and trains from the vending machines, at the stops and stations. Berlin transport BVG runs ticket and information counters in the larger stations, e.g. Bahnhof Zoo and Alexanderplatz. Tickets are valid for all means of public transport, depending on the type of ticket you have to pay extra for your bicycle. Berlin transport - Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft - gives more detailed information on its website: www.bvg.de.

By Bike

Via German Rail's "Call-a-Bike" you find and rent bicycles parked all over Berlin per mobile - for detailed information in English click into www.callabike.de. At the Bahnhof Zoo station (S- and U-train station Zoologischer Garten, S3, S5, S7, S75, S9, U2, U9, bus 100, 200) there is a bicycle service point of German Rail.

You do not have to ride a bicycle yourself: In summer you can stop a Velotaxi serving the area Unter den Linden, Friedrichstrasse, Tiergarten and Kurfuerstendamm.

You get printed travel guides, maps, cycling, hiking and boat maps here.

You can take your bicycle in S-trains, regional trains, trams, ferries and boats. Depending on the type of ticket (with the WelcomeCard, with weekly or monthly passes usually taking a bicycle is included) you need an additional ticket for your bike - you get information at the stations and from the drivers or ticket collectors. Berlin transport's website www.bvg.de offers maps of the S-, U- and tram network as pdf-files to print, plus routes and timetables of buses and ferries.

You get tickets in the buses and trains, from the vendings machines at the stops and stations. Berlin transport BVG runs ticket and information counters in the larger stations, e.g. Bahnhof Zoo and Alexanderplatz. Tickets are valid for all means of public transport, depending on the type of ticket you have to pay extra for your bicycle. Berlin transport - Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft - gives more detailed information on its website: www.bvg.de.

You find an online Berlin city map at www.berlin.de.Berlin transport's website www.bvg.de offers maps of the S-, U- and tram network as pdf-files to print, plus routes and timetables of buses and ferries.

By Tram

From Alexanderplatz, Hackesche Markt, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Oranienburger and Spandauer Strasse you discover East-Berlin by tram: Trams go to Prenzlauer Berg, to Friedrichshain, to Tierpark, to Koepenick, to Pankow. The tram lines have been preserved through GDR-times, today you mostly travel in new handicapped accessible tram cars.

You find an online Berlin city map at www.berlin.de. Berlin transport's website www.bvg.de offers maps of the S-, U- and tram network as pdf-files to print, plus routes and timetables of buses and ferries.

You get tickets in the buses and trains from the vendings machines, at the stops and stations. Berlin transport BVG runs ticket and information counters in the larger stations, e.g. Bahnhof Zoo and Alexanderplatz. Tickets are valid for all means of public transport, depending on the type of ticket you have to pay extra for your bicycle. Berlin transport - Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft - gives more detailed information on its website: www.bvg.de.

By U- and S-train

Every location in Berlin is in walking distance from an S-train and U-train station. The S-train connections date back to the 19th century. U-trains started to run in 1902.

You find an online Berlin city map at www.berlin.de. Berlin transport's website www.bvg.de offers maps of the S-, U- and tram network as pdf-files to print, plus routes and timetables of buses and ferries.

You get tickets in the buses and trains from the vendings machines, at the stops and stations. Berlin transport BVG runs ticket and information counters in the larger stations, e.g. Bahnhof Zoo and Alexanderplatz. Tickets are valid for all means of public transport, depending on the type of ticket you have to pay extra for your bicycle. Berlin transport - Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft - gives more detailed information on its website: www.bvg.de.

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