Exploring a new city on foot is a great way to get a feeling of the currently aimed atmosphere. There is no better way to explore new destinations than being able to walk around, get lost, explore the culture at will. Berlin, full of history and vivid energy is also a bright exception. If you want to optimize your experience in Berlin walking tour, then leveraging technology can significantly make a difference exponentially. Here are few ideas of how you continue to improve this Berlin walking tour using technology.
1. Mobile Apps for Guided Tours
The first change, which you can make to improve your walking tour is to install the applications that offer guided tour of Berlin. These apps mostly provide voice guided instructions in terms of speed, traffic condition and other related factors and perhaps information behind the sights. Some popular options include:
Visit Berlin: Official Tourism app of Berlin which has multiple walking tours, maps and information about tourist spots and events in Berlin.
Detour: Offers audiowalks, making you navigate an area of Berlin with headphones and following an analytic commentary of specialists.
GPSmyCity: Features walk data with maps that you can use without an Internet connection, so you will not get lost during the tour.
Not only are these apps designed to give you directions through the city, but they also give you very informative comments that put the place to history into perspective .
2. Adding Reality for Better Experience
Augmented Reality (AR) involves adding a computer-generated layer to the real environment; integrating your walking tour with additional interactive elements. In Berlin, AR can add some interesting information in relation to the state of the city. For example:
Checkpoint Charlie AR: While you’re standing at the checkpoint that marked the division of Berlin during the Cold War, check out how it look in 1961 through the Complex and get to know the stories of people who tried to cross the border.
Jewish Museum Berlin: Walk through the museum’s Garden of Exile and try to see in augmented reality dreadful stories of Jews who had to leave Nazi Germany.
These AR experiences take you through time and history unfolds before your very own eyes.
3. Electronic Tourist Information and information Logs
In this case, do your research on Berlin’s history and culture by reading digital travel guides and travel blogs before going for your walking tour. The following web links provide useful information and suggestions for your program of travel.
For instance, Lonely Planet, TripAdvisor hosts city guides, most popular attractions, and travel reviews from common users. Today many specialised blogs exist that containing useful articles, tips and diaries which will help you to plan your tour: Slow Travel Berlin, The Berlin Life, and others.
4. Utilize Interactive Maps
The use of online map that visitors can interact with it would also be a big improvement from the conventional paper map that most tourists use. Google Maps and Here.com provide street plans, a guide to public transportation and even other users’ reviews of certain sites.
They enable you to trace the direction to follow, find what to do around the area and even locate restaurants, bars, and other areas where you can rest. One also can mark certain stations as favorite so that they are easily visible during a tour.
5. Record and Share Your Life Experience
In the present world technology not only enables you during your durational tour but also its helps in preserving or sharing those moments. You should also have your smartphone or camera with you so that you can have a picture-taking memo of your Berlin walking tour.
Regarding this, it’s may be useful to post updates at popular photo-sharing sites such as Instagram, flicker, etc. Telling people about your trips and showing them pictures can be helpful to other people and make others want to go travel as well.
Conclusion
Thus you can add values technology to enhance your Berlin walking tour to greater heights of tourist attractions. Popular forms of mobile apps, augmented reality, digital guides, PLX interactive maps or sites and photo-sharing platforms make enhancement of your knowledge, direction finding process, and sharing of the memories of the entire trip smooth and enjoyable. Accept these technological opportunities and start a great historical and unique tour through the interesting streets of Berlin.
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