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Trip to KRAKOW 5 days / 4 nights

Day 1 Krakow

Arrival to Krakow, Transfer from Airport to your hotel, check in time.

Welcome dinner & overnight in hotel

 

Day 2 Wieliczka

After breakfast, Sightseeing tour ouf Krakow with Jewish quarter Kazimierz, Wawel Hill to see The Wawel Cathedral and Royal Castle, the Royal Route via Grodzka Street to the Old Town, the Jagiellonian University: Collegium Maius and Collegium Novum, Main Market Square -the largest of city squares in Europe, the magnificent Gothic St.Mary's Basilica, with its famous Medieval wooden altar sculptured by Vitt Stwosz as well as Sukiennince, a 100 meters long Cloth market, now hosting stalls with crafts. Next the Floryan Gate & Old City Walls, Barbican and Matejki Sq. on the end.

Lunch in Restaurant located in the Old Town.

Afternoon – excursion to Wieliczka Salt mine, Wieliczka is famous for having one of the oldest operational salt mine in Europe which has been working for over 700 years, which was entered on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1978. It is an underground labyrinth that stretches over 200 kilometres of tunnels we discover a mysterious and unique underground city housing chapels with amazing salt sculptures and bas-reliefs, massive high-ceiling caverns, dark-watered lakes and the breathtaking Chapel of St. Kinga - carved out of a huge block of salt .

Return to Krakow, dinner & overnight in hotel


Day 3 Wadowice -Kalwaria ~ or ~ Zakopane Tatra Mountains

Breakfast, departure for one of proposed below excursions.

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska – Wadowice (4h), we start with Kalwaria, it is one of the most often visited pilgrimage places in Poland, listed on UNESCO's World Heritage Site.Afterwords we drive to Wadowice - the birth place of The Pope John Paul II. This small town has attracted many thousands of pilgrims since John Paul II became the Pope in 1978. First we come to visit the family house of Karol Wojtyla which is a museum devoted to his life and work.

Zakopane – Tatra Mountains (8h)is situated in a charming mountain valley at the foot of the Polish Tatras , it's the biggest center of skiing and mountain tourism in Poland but on the other hand it is a place where mountain folklore is lived and nurtured, with many gems of typical wooden architecture. Will have a nice walk down the street Krupowki, where is a cable car ride up to the Gubalowka Mt., from which there are extraordinary panoramic views of the Tatras .

Lunch in Restaurant , return to Krakow.

Dinner by the live folklore music & overnight in hotel

 

Day 4 Auchwitz - Birkenau

Breakfast, excursion to Oswiecim. Guided visit to the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp formed from an army barracks during the II World War. Government established this as a National Museum in 1947. The Museum remains a place sacred to the memory of the tens of thousands of Jews, Poles and other nationalities who suffered and died here.

Lunch in Restaurant Art Deco in Oswiecim. Return to Krakow in late afternoon, leisure time.

Farewell dinner by concert of Jewish music at Klezmer Hojs Restaurant & overnight in hotel

 

 

Day 5 Krakow

After breakfast, Transfer to the Airport Balice.