Krakow Travel

Tour Description:
The winter capital of Poland, Zakopane also during the rest of the year attracts thousands of visitors, who enjoy tranquility of mountain landscape, the beauty of nature, old huts and wooden cottages built in Highlanders style without use of any iron.

Tour Description:
The guided tour to Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II ( Birkenau ).
The original barracks where prisoners lived during WWII feature exhibition on prisoners personal belongings, preserved documents and archive photographs describing the history of the camp.
Detailed history of Auschwitz - Birkenau
Duration:
4-5 h
Distance:
70 km
Standard Tour:
The tour starts from the camp Auschwitz One near the [...]

Tour Description:
The guided tour to more than 700 years old Wieliczka Salt Mine visiting underground exhibition of miners’ tools, traces of excavation work from the past, sculptures made of salt, salt lake and everything of salt.
Detailed history of Salt Mine
Duration:
3,5-4,5 h
Distance:
15 km

The tradition of producing salt in the area of Wieliczka was born around 5000 years ago when Neolithic people living there obtained salt thanks to the procedure of boiling salines since the salt springs were in the proximity of the earth surface.

The Auschwitz - Birkenau Camps were the biggest ones ever created by German Nazis.
WWII began with the German attack on Poland that took place on 1st September 1939. On 17th September according to the Ribbentrop - Molotov Pact Russians invaded Poland from the East. The fourth partition of Poland took place.

Tours around Cracow - Best suggestions
Each suggestion shows you the place that is within one or two hours drive from Cracow, so it could be completed in one day, staying overnight in Krakow. There is a possibility to combine some places into one trip, it could be a bit extensive though.