Berlin’s Mauerweg, or Berlin Wall Trail, is a fully signposted cycle and hiking path that follows the course of the former Berlin Wall. In the summer of 2014, over several days, I walked its entire 160km length and wrote an impressionistic essay about the experience in a book entitled “Mauerweg: Stories From The Berlin Wall“.

The book also contains a selection of images from the walk and a separate essay on the Mauerweg by my fellow writer Paul Scraton, who maintained a blog dedicated to the trail and has also walked the entire thing.

The book was featured and extracted in part on The Guardian. The expanded photo essay below is intended to offer a broader visual impression of the entire circuit.

Sadly, the city does not maintain any kind of website about the trail but you can find some info on how to cycle it by Robin Oomkes here.