Programme

Here you can see what we got up to on the trip.

City Walking Tour

Major sights, history of Poland, fun facts, unusual symbols and traditions - all included in an entertaining walk with a professional and knowledgeable city guide.

The CITY : Wawel hill, Royal castle and cathedral, Old town, Jagiellonian University district, Planty Park, Main Market square, St. Mary's basilica, Leftovers of fortifications.

Krakow Ghost Tour

Krakow is a city of silent ‘live stones’ that have witnessed centuries of scary, bloody and brutal history. They saw it – we uncover their story. The city’s hidden secret – now presented in a back shivering evening walk to Krakow’s abandoned attractions

Be the first one to hear:
- forgotten stories of brave freedom fighters who paid the highest price to abolish communism
- mysterious tales of medieval customs which were supposed to open the gates of heaven
- brutal reality of medieval Krakow
- pagan myths and beliefs

This tour will show you what other tours do not include because there is always ‘good reason’ to cut this out: lack of time! too scary! too controversial! unclear facts! secret commie files!

Jewish Walking Tour

During this tour we will take you to the district of Kazimierz - now becoming the artistic centre of Krakow filled with designer café’s. The trendy location surrounded by buildings that witnessed shocking Holocaust history is also the place where before World War II, Jewish culture flourished for centuries and a film set for Steven Spielbergs Oscar winner. Then, we continue to the district of Podgórze to see Schindler's factory and the surviving remnants of the second World War ghetto.

Kazimierz: Wolnica Square, former Jewish district with synagogues, old meat market

Podgórze district - former main ghetto square, leftovers of the ghetto wall, Oscar Schindler's factory.

Red Star Tour

Capitalism in Poland has not won yet! The socialistic ideas and traditions have survived! They are waiting for unity again on this tour in Lenin's favourite Nowa Huta district. This unique socialist city has amazing cold war urban ideas, commie architecture and extraordinary ambience! Once competition for Krakow - now a district avoided by tourists. Leave the old town commercialised shops behind and see how polish people live now!

Old tramway ride (both ways)
Nowa Huta - working class paradise tour : long walk to show you former Lenin steelwork, communist architecture, workers recreational grounds, vegetable market, Soviet monuments and an unbeatable Russian surprise!

Auschwitz

A Visit to Auschwitz Birkenau state museum is a mindset changing experience. It is a place that everybody should visit. The biggest Nazi concentration camp for prisoners of various nationalities. Since 1942 it was a centre for extermination of European Jews. A visit to State museum KL Auschwitz- Birkenau is a personal experience that should not be rushed and should be treated with proper respect.

The visit to Auschwitz I with a local Museum guide will take about 2 hours and than we will have half an hour to either rest or go back to the parts of the exhibition that impressed you the most and experience them in privacy. Then we will drive to Birkenau - 10 times bigger than Auschwitz I - to see the monstrosity and the scale of the Nazi "Final solution" plan. After about 1 hour tour you will also given some free time to see the place on your own.

It is not an easy experience! 

Visit Salt Mines

Imagine the network of amazing underground chambers, drilled out from the inside like eggshells, connected with a web of richly illuminated underground corridors, filled with backlit sculptures made out of translucent salt.

Imagine biggest underground cathedral cut directly in a rock of salt. Crystal chandeliers glowing around - Fairy tale?
Miracle? - no , in opinion of the 18th century traveller - it is the Wieliczka SALT MINE " less magnificent than Egypt's pyramids, but much more useful.“

Your only chance to experience the taste of salt 130 metres underground.