Day 6 Krakow
Breakfast at Hotel. Here you will undertake a Full Day Tour of Krakow. We will start first with the Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. . Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most well known Cemetery in the world and place of genocide. Started in 1940 as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners it became the center. for extermination of European Jews in 1942. From 1940-45 the Nazis killed about 1.5 million people there, mainly Jews as well as Polish, Gypsies, Russian POW’s and members of other nationalities. Your tour begins with a 15 minute black and white documentary film screening aboard the bus about the liberation of the camp. Following that, a museum guide will show you the exhibitions in some of the surviving prison blocks, the gas chamber and the crematorium. After a short break, the tour continues to Birkenau, where you go up to the watchtower above the entrance gate to see the view of the biggest Nazi Concentration Camp. A Martyrdom Museum was set up here in 1947 and in 1979. UNESCO included Auschwitz-Birkenau in its list of World Heritage sites. In the afternoon, we will have a Tour of Wieliczka Salt Mine. Legend has it that the salt mines in Wieliczka were part of the dowry of the Hungarian Princess Kinga, when she wed Boleslaw the Shy over 700 years ago. Meaning the Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the oldest in all of Europe. Over the centuries, devout and superstitious miners have carved fabulous figures, monuments and altarpieces out of its salt walls. These amazing works of art, in addition to the mine’s historical importance, have earned the Wieliczka Salt Mine a place on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list. Your route through the mine leads you through galleries and chambers on three levels, from 64 to 135 meters below the ground, including the unique and richly ornamented Chapel of the Blessed Kinga. The guided walk through Wieliczka Salt Mine consists of 20 monumental chambers joined by 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) of pathways and an underground salt mining exhibition called Museum Zup Krakowskich located on Level 3. Visitors entering the Wieliczka Salt Mine descend a 380-step staircase to Level 1 (64 meters below ground level). This walk is not strenuous and can be undertaken in ordinary footwear, however we ask you consider the walk and 380-step staircase when booking this tour. The return to the surface will be by lift up the Danilowicz Shaft, from Level 3 (135 meters below ground level). The last stop in the mine is the souvenir shop and snack bar. From here, a lift carries you back to the surface. Overnight at Hotel.
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