It is impossible to see all of the Krakow important places and attractions during one evening so we encourage our guests to stay at least a day longer and visit the world famous places – the beautiful and amazing Wieliczka salt mine or honour Nazi victims in Auschwitz. These excursion will be organized upon request, for reservation e-mail the touroperator iPOINT Travel Kraków: point@conference.pl with a “RD50” password.
The description of all the excursions is here.
Please do not wait until the last day, it is high season for visiting Krakow in June!
We prebooked a couple of Wieliczka Salt Mine excursions for RD50 members for Sunday, 4th of June. If you plan this destination, take a chance to visit Wieliczka Salt Mine with your colegues. Reservation is valid untill 30th of April, later you can still book it on regular basis.
Wieliczka – Salt Mine
Duration ca 3 hrs, starts about 9am, includes 1,5 hours subterranean walk.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is enlisted on UNESCO List of World Cultural Heritage – one of the oldest salt mines in Europe. Visitors may take a walk of 3 km through 3 levels in the Salt Mine down to 136 meters below ground level through chambers and passageways excavated in the 17th century. On the way visitors see underground chambers and chapels hewn out in the salt rock, statues of saints sculpted in salt, and saline lakes. The tour is not recommended to the elderly people who have problems with walking or those who are claustrophobic.
Auschwitz – Birkenau
Distance 150 km round trip. Duration ca. 5,5 hrs. Return around 16:00.
The largest Nazi concentration camp formed during World War II The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum was established in 1947 by the Polish Government on the site of the largest Nazi concentration camp, which was set up in 1940 for prisoners from Poland. From 1941 on Nazis imprisoned there people from all the countries occupied by the Third Reich. From 1942 it also became one of the biggest extermination camps for the European Jews. There is the exhibition entitled „Man Did This To Man” in the huts once used to house inmates. In recognition of its historical significance as a memorial to all who suffered and died there, in the 1979 the site of the former concetration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau was entered on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list.