A Hot New Option for Cost-Conscious, Culture-Hungry Travelers East Germany
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, September, 2002 by Wendy O'Dea
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In the five German L,nder (states) comprising the former German Democratic Republic, even after over a decade of rapid change, the traveler feels a visceral difference from the west; on a recent visit I had the exhilarating, sometimes disconcerting feeling I was riding in a time machine still switched on, turbulently pushing and pulling me backward and forward simultaneously.
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Although just a sixth of Germans reside here, things have changed so rapidly that it's impossible to know what to expect from one month to the next. Graffiti-laden, Soviet-style slums molder next to pristine Baroque masterpieces and cutting-edge office towers. And despite a big jump in prices unleashed by the one-to-one swap of the old East German currency for the mighty Deutsche mark during unification in 1990 (leading to prices significantly higher than elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc), some bargain gems still turn up more readily than in the west, ...
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