Long weekend in Poland

May 4, 2009

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Day one:
In the morning you arrive to Cracow. From airport you go directly to visit the Old Town and the oldest university in that part of Europe. Here you can breathe a real atmosphere of a Medieval Town. You can also eat a lunch. After spending some time in the Old Town Market you go by bus to see the salt mine in Wieliczka. Then you come back to Cracow and take a train to Zakopane, a winter capital of Poland.

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In Zakopane you eat your folkloristic dinner prepared by Polish highlanders, see the beautiful Tatra Moutains and go to a pub. Polish bear is the best so you drink, drink and drink. You sleep in a beautiful traditional hostel.

Day two:

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In the morning you have a train to Warsaw. You arrive to Warsaw at about 12:00. Then you go to install yourself in a hotel, next to the Old Town. You have your lunch in the Old Town restaurant, very typical one. Dumplings from Warsaw are really special. Then you go to see the Royal Castle, it’s magnificent. But you must remember that it was totally destroyed in the World War II and rebuild 30 years later.

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Now it’s time for shopping. There are many huge malls in Warsaw but you will go to the second biggest and modern after London shopping center Golden Terrace. It’s situated in the modern center of Warsaw.

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After shopping you go back to your hotel. At the evening you go to have a walk along the Vistula river than you are going for a concert of the Frederic Chopin music. You can have a small dinner on your way.

Day three:

In the morning you take a train to Gdansk. Gdansk is an ancient see-trade city, the capital of the northern part of Poland, a cradled of the “Solidarnosc” movement, which broke down with communism in Europe. You can buy here a marvelous amber jewelry. You start your visit from the Old Town, when you can find the biggest cathedral in the Northern Europe.

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Then you are having a walk along the Medieval port in Gdansk (Long Waterfront). From Gdansk you are going by a local train to Sopot. It’s a famous Baltic Sea resort. You are visiting a longest jetty in the Europe.

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You can also have some fun skating on the Sopot streets. For the evening you are moving to the next city – Gdynia, when you are having your fish dinner.

Day four:

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In the morning you are taking a ferry from the port of Gdynia and you are moving to Hel, a small fisherman’s town at the Hel’s Peninsular. Here you can see some Baltic Sea animals, have a rest on a beach. You are having your late lunch at the one of the restaurants which specialty is “śledź – herring”, a famous Nordic fish that could be prepared in thousands ways. Late afternoon you are taking a train to the Gdansk airport.

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Let meets again in Poland.


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