Kraków Trip Overview
Get the most out of your stay in Krakow, with the special tour offer to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and Wieliczka Salt Mine on two separate days. Our comfortable, air-conditioned minivan or minibus takes you directly to both landmarks, including pick-up and drop-off from your Krakow hotel. You have a chance to marvel at the underground complex recognized by UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites List in Wieliczka Salt Mine, and to visit the memorial museum and grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau. On both days, the tours are guided with the maximum of 30 participants in Auschwitz Memorial Museum and 39 participants in Wieliczka Salt Mine .
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Kraków, Poland
Trip Category: Multi-day & Extended Tours >> Multi-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
Get the most out of your stay in Krakow, with the special tour offer to Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and Wieliczka Salt Mine on two separate days. Our comfortable, air-conditioned minivan or minibus takes you directly to both landmarks, including pick-up and drop-off from your Krakow hotel. You have a chance to marvel at the underground complex recognized by UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites List in Wieliczka Salt Mine, and to visit the memorial museum and grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau. On both days, the tours are guided with the maximum of 30 participants in Auschwitz Memorial Museum and 39 participants in Wieliczka Salt Mine .
Itinerary
Day 1: Auschwitz Museum
Stop At: Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau, ul. Wiezniow Oswiecimia 20 Entrance to the Museum is located at Stanisławy Leszczyńskiej Str. no. 11, Oswiecim 32-603 Poland
Visit the former Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau on this 7-hour trip from Krakow. By June 1940, Jews and over 700 political criminals had been sent to Auschwitz and the atrocities had begun.
Birkenau was built by Auschwitz prisoners and by October 1941 was used as an extermination camp. Between 1 and 1.5 million were killed, and approximately 90 percent of those killed were Jews.
Before Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated in January 1945, the SS attempted to blow up the camp and destroy the documentation. They were only partially successful, and the Polish government decided to restore the site as a memorial to the victims.
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Wieliczka Salt Mine
Stop At: Wieliczka Salt Mine, Jana Mikolaja Danilowicza 10, Wieliczka 32-020 Poland
Visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine, one of Poland’s top attractions that’s on UNESCO’s World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage. The half-day skip-the-line tour departs from Krakow.
Learn about the salt mine that is the best-preserved site of its type in the world. Opened in the 13th century, it has been in continuous operation since that time.
Explore some of the 300 kilometers of hallways extending over 9 levels and reaching depths of 327 meters. See the chambers and chapels in the mine’s underground city, including the famous St. Kinga Chapel, visited each year by more than a million tourists from all over the world.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
