What you can visit in the neighbourhood of Krakow
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.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Concentration Camp
Thousands of words have been written about this horrifying place, wo don’t want to repeat them.
You can visit Auschwitz One camp ( Oświęcim) and Auschwitz Two ( Brzezinka - Brkenau ) with remains of real prisoners barrack, train line, and ruins of Crematoria.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
This time - deep into the mines.
More than 300 feet underground the temperature is stable around 12-14 deg of Celsius the whole year.
Than the visit is chilly experience during warm summer days, and nice warm up during the freezing winter time.
Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains
Polish Aspen, full of posh,snobs and the rich.Beloved by polish actors, politics, artist and by everybody.
Few minutes apart ther crowds are the mountains. The quiet place with old wooden cottages and the nature in Tatrzański National Park.
time for the rest and relax.
Rafting on Dunajec river
Row,row,row your boat… fortunately not by yourself, but this time you have two strong ‘Górale’ highlanders doing it for you.
Most of the time the raft boat floats slowly with the stream, allowing you to admire the beauty of the river Dunajec findong its way through limestone rock formations.
The wild nature national park with Black Stork nests, and in the clean water you can spot hundreds of trout fish.
The Eagles’ Nests trial
Welcome to the Jurrasic Park… no, no dinosaurs here, only once the territory between present Kraków and Częstochowa has been under the waters of the sea from the Jurrasic Era.
On the limestone rock, formed by spieces from that sea, you can see ruins of several medieval castles, once protecting the merchants roads.
The castles were built into the rocks, like the eagles build their nests - hence the name of the trail.
Black Madonna in Częstochowa
the pilgrimage destiny for Polish Catholics ( merely 95 % of population) - Black Madonna painting.
The badger with the icon you can see on the suit of legendary ‘Solidarity’ leader Lech Wałęsa, ‘Totus tuus’ - totally yours was the motto on the crest of John Paul II.
The Footsteps of John Paul II
To pay the hommage to this exceptional man, and to try to better understand his personality two years ago pope Benedict XI
following ‘the footsteps of John Paul II’ visited the most important places in Poland connected with the former pope,
and so we will. Wadowice (pope’s birthplace) , Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (on UNESCO list), and the most significant spots in Kraków.
The Wooden Architecture
off the beaten track. Within the countryside of this part of Poland you can find dosens of beautiful churches,
old cottages and other buildings built mostly of larch and various pine tree.
We will see the most representative ones. Part of the tour is a visit to scansen in Wygiełzów where some of wooden cottages are more than a hundread years old.