Summer trip in Europe-4 Berlin

Berlin is the last stop of our summer trip in Europe, from Düsseldorf to Berlin by train is about 4 and half hours.Ourside the train was typical german villages,hills,rivers.... Well,I like to take the train sometimes that I could see the outside scenery more clear and good than sit in the plane.
Arrived in Berlin central station already almost ten at night. This was the new station that they built for the World Cup. Very busy today! It was the Love Parade- The big Techno party in Europe. Every year it is in Berlin once. So when we were here it was just finished. We took the metro to the hotel,but it was full of people since all the young people were going back from the dancing party.The air in the metro was full of the mixture of alchol,sweat,perfum...
But some unexpected things happened again,the booking had some problem then we had to share one single bed for one night! Oh my god! The first impression of Berlin was not good,people were crazy and service was bad!
We will stay in Berlin for three and half days, so the first day we went to the Berlin wall musem. It was really a wall that to separate people and culture and everything.Good that it was gone now! The next we visited was a concerntraion camp in Oranienburg-A place about 1 hour by train from Berlin. It is Sachsenhausen memorial and museum. First I felt terrible that went to such a place,imagining how the people surfered here....There were still some houses and towers left,of course some mess graves... It seems that you still can hear how the people scream and cry and everything....It was a terrible place but a place to remember the history! Back to Berlin was not early any more,so we went to eat Turkish food,well this time I was really hated it! Quickly finished and we had a walk in the center near a university, there was a big square and they were having the buddy bear exhibition,every country has one bear and the artist from that country designed the bear. It looked very interesting and it showed people that world peace is very important! Even though at that night some war still happening in the middle east!
Berlin wall
Buddy bear
The sencond day we decided to go to the Berlin zoo. Almost every city we visited we went to the zoo.I like animals especially birds,horses,fish...It was not a very big zoo, but we saw some lovely penguins and even one panda from China. After that we went to some shopping street and experienced luxury brand stores in Berlin. Well,I have read somewhere that in Europe or America, the consumers of luxury brands are mostly middle aged women,but in China or Japan that are mostly young girls! That is true here in Germany,I saw lots of old ladies carrying Gucci bags walking on the street,but not much young girls.... Maybe that is one of the culture difference. For dinner we ate in a spanish restaurant,it was very popular one, good tapas!
Penguins
The last day in Berlin we visited Pergamonmusem in the museum island. There was many acient treasures and things from Egypt,Islamic countries... Then we went to the modern art museum, they were having a Berlin-Tokyo art exhibition,interesting and funny modern arts! Since we were in Germany we had not taste the real german food, so tonight was the night to try the german food-sausages,souer krant,mashed potatos. Actually it did not taste bad,but it can not be my daily food.
National museum
The half day before we got on the plane,we just walked in the street of berlin,mostly the former east part. In the afternoon we had to catch the plane back to Helsinki, to my surprise that the berlin airport for European flight was rather small.
Germany is a funny place with full of different things.Mixed culture and miserable history,everything made Germany special and unique.