Wednesday, April 30, 2008


East Side Gallery. Although the wall and what it stood for came crashing down in 1989, parts of it do remain. This is the longest stretch, 1300 meters long and now is a protected "canvas" where artists have left their art since 1990. You can even etch your name or leave your mark on it too.


The East side part of the wall was called "a no-man's land" and was full of watchtowers and armed gunmen, attack dogs, land mines and barbed wire.

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years and was erected in 1961 by the East German government to prevent the mass exodus of the East Berliners to the West. It was approximately 155 km in length.

Soooo muede. (Soooo tired.)

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