and sometimes lasting as much as a week or ten days.
The parties, comprising between l0 and 15 members,
are conveyed by bus or train to a particular locality 
from which they start out on their tours under
the direction of a guide, stopping at hotels or hostels 
overnight. At a certain fixed destination
they are met by bus or take the train home. Participants 
bring their own bicycles or collapsible
boats if they choose this form of excursion. The
price includes incidental fares, guides' fees, and
lodging. From Berlin hiking tours visit the Harz
or Saxon mountains {two weeks at a price of RM 60);
or Mecklenburg (two weeks for RM 50). Three-day
bicycle excursions are arranged for the Spreewald
or for Mecklenburg (price RM 12.50). A week's
tour of the surrounding lakes by paddle boat costs
RM 25.
 
 (4) Extended Overland Excursions Lasting A
Week Or More. These excursions take the worker
far and wide, as is illustrated by the list of places 
henceforth to be given. The special trains
usually leave Berlin late in the evening, the travellers 
Sitting up all night in third class carriages
until they reach their destination during the following 
day. There they are put up at small town inns
or in private houses. All visitors to the Rhine