| Show i The Sal Lake Tribune TRAVEL Expect the unexpected in Berlhi II Continued from tions in 1920 when eight towns 59 villages and 27 farms and estates merged to form Greater Berlin West Berlin alone it is said is four times the size of Paris When the Wall finally fell the city became unimaginably enormous which means touring the new Berlin can be quite a challenge considering the lures of both East and West There's just so much In the West there are fancy department stores and boutiques on lavish Kurfurstendamm Boulevard pruned gardens and palaces in Schloss Charlottenburg and cafunky Greenwich Village-stylfes in the Kreuzberg neighbor hood In the East there is the e sharp-edgeexcitement of dance clubs a number of spontaneous sculpture gardens that have sprouted with a recent influx of artists as well as a number of good museums and fascinating historical sites hidden in the most unexpected places e d avant-gard- u Checkpoint Charlie There was the day that began at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum but that became more eventful when I by chance happened upon an exhibit on Nazi Germany titled "The Topography of TerPark next ror" at Prince-Elect- Prinz-Albrec- fully-escorte- 10 40 il 4 41" ' : 31d4-Nigh- t 1:7 it Al " t:i f4 " 4'1 of ' 10 ' $575 $605 SoutheniCatbean $1394 d Sailing September 19 to 26 1993 Cruise only rates - from $ 109n How1 I 1 per person : I Exquisite onboard the cruise ship Seminar onboard ship by Senator Jake Cam to discuss his new book May Discussion on the wonders of space as experienced by Astronaut Garn Coil COSTA MurPock Trawall FIALIAN CRUISING Sunfiftd-Fr- i In&s1 & At Cost ELKO ' IlitiVOLS01 DAILY I face accmniNda" SI YU Believe I thertGmeronut All Weekdays $110137(W With Ad Esp 5193 OVERNIGHT $35 53 lk-- 10 $11 Cash Back I ROSE- ii0MITElit Da4y721 4 Days $299 7 k - 718 Days 5 The Avis 524 $165 66 & 75 TRAVEL 01 Avis features GM cars 14-2- 5 $131000 SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES From We From June From 9 $2696 cTs:74 exp$aSSo - l "It 7'11 '''' ALASKA Cruisetour August From $3065 Plan a Carefree summer vacation to: Hell's Canyon Canadian Rockies with the Calgary Stampede Hill Cumorah Pageant The Great Lakes or China Call For Free Brochures on These Other 1993 Tours moo j tiltit74r1 — fee falts '2-- Z' 01k4313 Toil Free Outside Utah County but these fares won't Call before we get a little more realistic Free Brochure rA ' 359-217- 7 Caribbean - G6t Some Royal Caribbean Coming You've ret"401011V191 l'05: 7 - gr Am: Alaska Bahamas Bermuda Caribbean Mediterranean frn win thill km (rpm pmondouNem amor m &dumutdm (haws (7PO41thnonal (moolowern Room entattornnenonsappli warm --1to---- mod 1991 inkdial In mon Mexico and 5ashitg Prltri Mtn brondronnom (11krneopanninninAkdandmav Russia m Scandinavia Transcanal thaw Por trne 9BRLCL Shp hargtn depamingil frOinS1'S andammn imn4mm Iibenar am! &durum ikon fromPS-16- ot IN 111111111111111111Elk Vont ill1111111 itzvbflaw li — : 0- -if z ' - —4 004r' 10-117- 1 t ) li Fort Union Downtown 566-510- 364-140- 0 1 a- - ---i sijiiaiii-itVVt ' V 1 1 - Salt Lake City Utah t'llw 1 a i 47 t ni 0144t) -( hwe It'l 41 try - 6 (I 3Vil'oliqti RciviliT :tel11 0v 1 1 :t c 0 YOUR PREFERRED VIIK --ritotrrli-t 11'1 - I 4 or Toll Free or Toll Free 143 South Main 1 (tiff tinrilinlal CKOKOADS DESERET NEWS ti110 11 c11Ptcis' tli 374-946- 0 our dream awaits Callyour travel agent today The cruise For your convenience we now accept the credit card of your choice ''1 - ll take care of every detai- l- don to prices too good to pass up 441: tad"'c7-44- - 4'7' 71' ©1993 Wizard Co Inc Vot glow destinations around the wodd k "4"4 r - And dozens of beautiful :: 3-- 04i — PICK YOUR Ak11Dor PLACE YOUR AD $405 PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL '7777 ' L 21-2- 6 Northern Exposure try harder: 177 Ro 44 AVIS Starring Branson Missouri 17-2- better Like waiters i li J:k "0:rif:j 4"!'1'7' 1""1"Nmal1FOLly""---:- ''' TEXAS HILL COUNTRY $94300 ALASKA & THE YUKON - Th Sue Collins Owners OZARK MOUNTAIN & June flowers Highlypolished brass Advantage IN Lake Hilton i4 & May From thanpu imagined Ithether you're less or Salt in Guided Tours May ave: who know you byname Fresh to availability and must be returned to renting location Taxes local government surcharges and optional items such as additional driver tee and refueling are extra Renter must meet Avis age driver and credit requirements Minimum age is 25 but may vary by location For more information and reservations call Avis at: Sunbird This special rate is available from noon 'Wednesday April 7) through midnight 'Monday Apt il 121 and is nondiscountable Limited availability at this rate Wednesday through Friday rentals require a Friday night stayover Cars are subject rTOURS Tom :r : The things other cruise lines do we simply do day) rental p Employee-Ownershi- Start making those Easter plans! 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Whatever my simple request the Germans smoothly obliged Berlin never ceases to amaze In Berlin what you think you see is never what you get From 4 departures per week 2 from Apr 27 thru Dec: 04 1993 Summer price Spring & Fall prices are lower Escorted from SLC by Murdock Travel professional ' Explorations around Kreuz- SENATOR JAKE GARN 7 ot PANDE - g English-speakin- N July finA3 VEGASI1AUGOLIN neo-Naz- is berg are also an illuminating contrast to East Berlin life since Kreuzberg represents one of the city's more diverse neighborhoods There are more than 250000 foreigners in Berlin half of them Turks and many of them live right here in this polychromatic neighborhood of Turkish markets noisy delis and jostling pubs Kreuzberg is the place to From Includes air fare from Salt Lake City all transportation in Europe sightseeing hotels and 26 meals For information please call Travel Center Inc at 328-155- 1 Emhage Travel at 800968-908- 9 k' ' e t - 4 02 53i- Apr '- - y Not too far away one can walk around the huge characterless open square called Alexanderplatz ride up to the top of the 1198-foo- t television tower and check out the Nikolaiviertel the tiny little quarter designed by the of old communists as a Berlin Such walks are really the last chance to glimpse the "second world" before its hopeful simplicity (sometimes hopeful squalor) is transformed forever by the crush of the West An interesting counterpoint to 15-d- d 'o Apt ' d fur-drap- Crush of the West tour of Holland Germany Austria Italy Switzerland France & Belgium Join biologist OrIA-Fouquette of Arizona State University on a 90foot nverboat 650 miles On the Amazon River! 10 dayS 9 tillL T 4 nights $2095 from Salt Lake City 151795 from Miamil plus $23 US departure tax '"Iii includes meals lours entrance fees side tops transfers hotels and much more Call for a tree brochure Rainforest native villages from Peru to Brazil and parrots piranha Summer the back 4 1993 Jun 25 drv seaon ''' neon-spattere- n By Image A y And in the East most of the buildings are in such disrepair find a good Turkish restaurant settle down with a satisfying plate of eggplant peppers and yogurt and watch the punks and hippies live and let live I was heartened in the midst of my explorations by the number of signs I saw tacked on store windows and placed carefully atop store counters with the sentiments "Wir sind Jeden Tag Aus- 'ander" This means: "We are for- eigners every day" The Germans are quite upset by the attention and have given the mounted an intensive effort to dispel any notions of sympathy with the racists who have violently attacked asylum seekers Though my own foreign status couldn't have been more obvious black as an woman I was greeted by nothing but pleasantness And this even though the extent of my German was simply a weak "bitte" these Eastern walks is time in West Berlin beginning at the Europa shopping center wandering down the scrubbed blocks of Kurfurstendamm where women dart into chrome-heavdepartment stores and heading over to Savignyplatz where there are a series of cutting-edgboutiques and galleries tucked away on quiet back streets It's fun to stop by the elegant old mansion called the Literaturahaus on Fasanenstrasse and contemplate life in the Wintergarten Cafe while nursing a cappuccino and awaiting an author lecture Downstairs at the Literaturahaus you can pop into a bookstore offering a good selection of fiction and nonfiction A cautionary note: It helps to read German illeart of Europe 30-D- is the palace to the nearby Tiergarten to hunt the boulevard is now the site of a series of monumental buildings constructed by the communists It is also home to the prestigious Humboldt Univer§ity where Marx Hegel Engels and Einstein studied The street leads over to the Museumsinsel (or Museum Island) where the standout Pergamonmuseum famous for its Greek antiquities sits On the day I sauntered down the avenue passing by the Grand Hotel I happened upon the filming of an American-Germatelevision series in the hotel lobby a11 U Berlin is lush and green in the summer drab and gray in the winter but no matter what time of year you cannot "walk" the city the way other cities can be walked It's too large and these days there's too much construction in prcgress The best deal in town is the subway ticket ($2O) entitling you to six days of unlimited use of the (the underground subway formerly operated by West Germans) and the (the elevated transportation system formerly operated by the East Germans) From various subway stops it's possible to plan a number of manageable strolls that will take you arthrough several "must-see- " eas places of happy and German history You're likely to find in the course of your walks that Berlin is not a very pretty city In the West wide boulevards tend to be lined with large monolithic buildings that lack the Old World charm of those of Prague or Par- Took Martin-Gropius-Ba- museum I had just left the exhibit and was wandering through Potsdamerplatz when I again happened by chance upon the aforementioned area of castoff tanks mangled motorbikes and other military dross From some where beyond the twisted sheet metal emerged a talkative man with a shaved head He said his name was Ralph Ammet of the "Mutoid Waste Co" and that he and 50 other artists were seizing military goods and bringing them to Potsdamerplatz where they were painting them brilliant colors to striking effect "We see the opportunity here to create some art and do some work that will stay here" said Ammet And there was the time spent on East Berlin's Unter den Linden a sprawling boulevard that is considered the Champs Elysees of East Berlin Originally a bridle path that was widened in 1647 by Friedrich Wilthe helm so that he could ride from the Reichstag (the Imperial Parliament) and the Brandenburger Tor (the gate that once stood in the eerie No Man's Land between East and West) are miserable failures But then again beauty is hardly what brings most tourists to Germany and it becomes evident that though the city cannot offer architectural splendor it can supply an amazing number of adventures on the average block Indeed I came to look on my time there as a series of that took me from the posh elegance of Old Berlin to the rough edges of youth culture Too big for a walk t door to the they evoke associations with the Bronx When it comes to plain old prettiness tourist sites such as F-- 1 F7 Sunday April 4 1993 114'11WO'"044 LonINLIJJ-JADS-T AGENCY CRUISE Jan Jenn!for or Pebble at 2684470 Call E IT Atm )4 0 la z' t - - PAIL & TRAVEL MASTERS '''1- - - - 'ireirri7' - -— A - tt 1 |
