Krakow Trip Overview
You will start a tour in Krakow, where you’re picked up directly from your hotel/apartment. Journey to the Wieliczka Salt Mine and, upon arriving, make the descent 440 feet (135 meters) below ground, passing through tunnels and chambers
The English guided tour in the Mine will takes approximately 2-2,5 hours. Your tour in run through each unique chamber. Hear the legend of the Hungarian princess, Kinga, whose dowry included the salt mines when she married Boleslaw the Shy over 700 years ago. Explore the ornate Chapel of the Blessed Kinga, with altarpieces and chandeliers made from natural salt deposits, and visit an underground salt-mining exhibition.
After your tour the driver will taes you back to Krakow.
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Additional Info
Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Krakow, Poland
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Bus & Minivan Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Krakow, Southern Poland, Poland
You will start a tour in Krakow, where you’re picked up directly from your hotel/apartment. Journey to the Wieliczka Salt Mine and, upon arriving, make the descent 440 feet (135 meters) below ground, passing through tunnels and chambers
The English guided tour in the Mine will takes approximately 2-2,5 hours. Your tour in run through each unique chamber. Hear the legend of the Hungarian princess, Kinga, whose dowry included the salt mines when she married Boleslaw the Shy over 700 years ago. Explore the ornate Chapel of the Blessed Kinga, with altarpieces and chandeliers made from natural salt deposits, and visit an underground salt-mining exhibition.
After your tour the driver will taes you back to Krakow.
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Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Krakow, Krakow, Lesser Poland Province, Southern Poland
We will pick you up from your hotel,apartment in the morning. Pick up time will be between 08:00-09:00am.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Wieliczka Salt Mine, Jana Mikolaja Danilowicza 10, Wieliczka 32-020 Poland
Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the most precious and fascinating Polish monuments. The first tourist trail in Wieliczka was established as early as the beginning of the19th century. A couple of centuries later the salt mine was designated as one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites (1978). The underground path leads through numerous drifts, galleries and chambers, where traces of mining activity have been preserved, as well as examples of art, theme compositions relating to the history of the mine and its legends. Moreover, the microclimate of the mine has a beneficial impact on visitors who suffer from asthma and allergies. Wieliczka is the world’s largest mining heritage museum with a collection encompassing unique pieces of mining equipment reflecting the development of mining techniques from the Middle Ages until today. The tour starts with a descent of 64 meters by stairs. You are then led through a number of chambers and shown underground lakes, shrines and salt monuments. The trip finishes at the level of 135 meters below the surface and the return to the surface is by lift.
Duration: 3 hours
