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The Cold War

Few chapters of modern history reshaped daily life more completely than the Cold War, and this ten-day itinerary moves through three countries — Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary — that lived that chapter from the inside. Your group isn't tracing the conflict in the abstract. You're standing at the places where the Wall actually fell, where secret police files filled entire buildings, and where ordinary citizens weighed loyalty against survival. That ground-level specificity is what makes this tour work as a course in itself.

Duration10 days · 9 nights

CountriesGermany · Czech Republic · Hungary

Cities4 stops

Group size6 – 80+ travelers

Best fitCustom & private

What makes us different

City-center hotels
Authentic local meals
Career Tour Directors
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Family-owned since 1992

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Arrival Berlin

Arrival transfer

Dinner

Overnight

At a glance

Days10

Nights9

Countries3

Cities4

OvernightsBerlin 3, Dresden 1, Prague 2, Budapest 2

MealsAll breakfasts & dinners

Best fit for

Custom & private

Curriculum fit

Analyze the political and physical division of Berlin by examining surviving Wall segments, checkpoint sites, and the Stasi Museum's surveillance documentation.
Compare the 1968 Prague Spring and the 1989 Velvet Revolution as distinct models of resistance to Soviet political authority.
Evaluate the role of state-sponsored surveillance in maintaining social control, using East Germany's secret police apparatus as a primary case study.
Trace Hungary's experience of Soviet-imposed governance and the 1956 Budapest uprising within the broader arc of Eastern Bloc history.
Interpret the reconstruction of Dresden as evidence of competing postwar narratives about memory, culpability, and national identity.
Examine the geopolitical boundaries established at the end of World War II and assess how those boundaries shaped civilian life across Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.

Drafted from the day-by-day. Use as a starting point for your syllabus.

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Overall

“This was a great tour and overall the experiences were amazing.”

Passports post-tour evaluation · Group leader · April 2026

Overall

“We had a FANTASTIC experience with Passports this year! From the beginning, in the planning stages, the difference between Passports and EF was clear, and that difference bore out over the course of the trip. We are so thankful we found you guys and really felt that the whole experience was better than what we've had with EF.”

Passports post-tour evaluation · Group leader · March 2026

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