Travelling the Wieliczka Salt Mine is actually pleasurable things. Getting had a claustrophobic moments within the Cango Caves, one of the many pleasant things to do in South Africa, ” I was not sure I wanted to select a tour 135 metres Under Ground. I really couldn’t discount the reviews and we’re passing right by it on down our way to your Zakopane ski getaway, thus we decided to give it a try . If you’re Auschwitz visit, then you should consider including a Krakow Salt Mine excursion for the destination.

Here is just a little background advice around the Krakow Salt Mines and what we considered about the visit.

Krakow Salt Mine tour of this Wieliczka Salt Mine

Salt mining commenced in the mines during the 13th century. During the tour, you’re hear that the legend of how a mine has been detected. We’ll not spoil it to you. Mining lasted until 1996 when, thanks to falling salt prices and flooding of this mine, mining of the salt ceased. In 1978 the mines became a UNESCO World Heritage Website plus they’re presently a big tourist attraction in Poland.

Where is your Wieliczka salt mine?

This Polish salt mine can be found in a small town called Wieliczka in the south of Poland. It can be known since that the Salt Mines Krakow however is actually a small from Krakow (around 14km into the south). It truly is easily accessible when you own a car and a cab wouldn’t become than #10 in your middle of Krakow. If you are counting on public transportation, then here is a wonderful guide to public transport options to make the journey into the Wieliczka Salt Mines from Krakow. You may even get a tour leaving from Krakow.

Wieliczka Salt Mines tour

There certainly are a handful of different tours you could certainly perform, although just these will be acceptable for children below 10. Note that you may not visit the salt mines without doing a tour because the salt mine is still an labyrinth of not quite 250 km of tunnels and you also can easily get dropped. You want to stay with all the guide in any way moments. We hadn’t done our study precisely before arriving and were not hoping to execute a 3-hour excursion. Bear in mind until you visit there are a lot of ways. You may get most useful direct on Krakow salt mine tour by means of internet.

Tourist Route

The vacationer path is 3.5 km long and the excursion takes roughly 3 hours. The temperate at the mine is a more continuing 16 — 18 degrees so even if it is mid-winter above ground, it will really feel fairly mild underground. You’ll find 800 ways in total on this tour (350 at the start right down a mine shaft) therefore that you have to consider the arrangement of this prior to starting. You’ll see saline lakes, tunnels, chambers with beautifully carved salt sculptures along with also a few chapels, with these being nothing short of spectacular. The enormous chandeliers from the largest chapel are built nearly solely out of absolute salt so the’crystals’ are almost completely transparent and appear like the true thing. It’s really an amazing sight.

Throughout the tour, you’re invited to get with the salt and there is even cite of walls (at your risk) to check it is indeed salt. Needless to say, after the kids noticed this, they’ve been determined to lick the partitions! Everybody else, the children, gets a headset to reevaluate what the manual is saying and that means it is possible to hear at constantly. The Vacationer route tours are in Polish, English, German, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish. If you need such a thing apart from English, we propose checking the website for specific tour times to get the language of choice.

English tour occasions

English tours are every half an hour so if you haven’t was able to look at these times, you wont have to hold out too long.

Miner’s Route

The miners’ route excursion is simply available in English and Polish. Tour occurs in 10.30 and 2 pm in English. It has 2 km long and takes approximately a couple of weeks. Visitors will be asked to utilize protective garments and involve some training before the start of tour. You will find no restaurant centers on this particular specific tour or baths and that means you should be sure you go before the excursion begins. The temperatures within this excursion is in among 14 — 16 degrees Celsius. We did not do this tour we can not remark on it.