Day 1

Arrival
Transfer from the Krakow Airport to the "Pod Wawelem" hotel
Check-in

Day 2

Morning: breakfast

Auschwitz-Birkenau (Morning tour)

See for yourself where the atrocities of the Nazi's "Final Solution" were carried out with a tour to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.


KL Auschwitz – in the years 1940-1945 - the biggest Nazi concentration and death camp in occupied Europe. Situated at a distance of 70 km from Krakow in the town of Oswiecim. The Auschwitz Memorial Museum (founded in 1947) was included in the UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1979. During the tour you will visit both parts of the Museum located in Oswiecim (KL Auschwitz I) and Brzezinka (KL Auschwitz II Birkenau). You will also watch a documentary on the history of the KL Auschwitz concentration and death camp. More information: regular tours by Cracow Tours



Inclusions: English speaking guide, hotel pick up from selected hotels, guided walk through Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, documentary screening

Exclusions: optional gratuity, food and drink, unless specified

Additional info: break 15 minutes only

Duration:
9:30 a.m. till 3:30 p.m.

Afternoon

Shopping, free time

Day 3

Morning: breakfast

Wieliczka Salt Mine (Morning tours)
Prepare to be amazed at the devotion and superstition that drove miners to carve figures, monuments and altarpieces into the walls of an 800-year-old salt mine.

As you walk down the 360 steps into the salt mine, you have the impression you are entering a vast underground city, complete with huge caverns and underground lakes. This underground world has earned a place on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list thanks to the creativity of the miners who carved chapels out of the walls, hundreds of metres below the surface. You will visit the largest of the chapels, dedicated to St Kinga, the patron saint of salt miners. This subterranean church is richly decorated with chandeliers, sculptures, and religious figures carved out of salt. As you follow the 2 1/2-kilometre walk, you'll pass statues dating back to the 18th century depicting mythical, historical and religious figures. The last stop in the mine is the souvenir shop and snack bar. From here, the lift carries you back to the surface.


Inclusions: English speaking guide, hotel pick up from selected hotels, admission to Wieliczka Salt Mine, guided walk through Wieliczka Salt Mine, lift pick up to the ground level on exit

Exclusions: optional gratuity, food and drink, unless specified

Additional info: temperature 14 °C/57 °F of all year round

Note: The pick-up bus is not necessarily the tour bus. It is possible that you will have to change the bus at our central starting point: the Cracovia Hotel. Please accept our apologies if departure is delayed due to heavy traffic. If you wish to come directly to our bus station, our central starting point is: Cracovia Hotel.

Check-out from the "Pod Wawelem" hotel
Transfer from the Pod Wawelem hotel to the Krakow Airport