Auschwitz - Birkenau, Salt Mine Wieliczka Private and VIP Tour in One or Two days
Kraków, Poland
Private and VIP tour in ONE or TWO days to Auschwitz & Birkenau Extermination Camp and Salt Mine Wieliczka.
If you are visiting Krakow just for short weekend, it may be perfect option for you.
During this tour you will visit the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp and the most horrible place of terror and genocide "Auschwitz & Birkenau".
You will visit also Salt Mine Wieliczka which is one of the most beautiful places in close proximity to Krakow and famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. Magnificent chambers chiselled out in rock salt. Amazing underground saline lakes, majestic timber constructions and unique statues sculpted in salt.
Private luxury Mercedes limousine and the most friendly in Krakow English speaking chauffeur with excellent knowledge about region and history is only at your service.
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If you are visiting Krakow just for short weekend, it may be perfect option for you.
During this tour you will visit the largest German Nazi concentration and extermination camp and the most horrible place of terror and genocide "Auschwitz & Birkenau".
You will visit also Salt Mine Wieliczka which is one of the most beautiful places in close proximity to Krakow and famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. Magnificent chambers chiselled out in rock salt. Amazing underground saline lakes, majestic timber constructions and unique statues sculpted in salt.
Private luxury Mercedes limousine and the most friendly in Krakow English speaking chauffeur with excellent knowledge about region and history is only at your service.
This one-day or two-days tour begins and ends in Krakow. We wait for you at a reception desk at your hotel/apartment. Private chauffeur is also a local guide is only at your service. For one-day tour we pick you up from your hotel early morning (between 7.30 - 8.30), but if you choose two-days tour pick-up time is flexible.
First destination (one-day tour) - Auschwitz & Birkenau is about 1h 20 min. from Krakow. You will visit the museum which is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a memorial to all who suffered and died there. You will visit the original camp, that served as the administrative center for the whole complex as well as Auschwitz II – Birkenau, which was designed strictly as a concentration camp. There are many artifacts on display at the museum, such as personal possessions of the prisoners. The museum is also dedicated to researching the Holocaust, and is devoted to the memory of the individuals who were murdered there.
After visiting Auschwitz, it is possible to break for lunch.
Second destination is Salt Mine. The tour starts at the Danilowicz Shaft. Here you meet a professional Salt Mine Guide, who during your excursion will tell you everything you want to know about the mine history and its secrets. About the forces of nature ruling within the depths of the mine, about the ethos of hard work performed by the generations of miners. Travelling further and further into the mine chasm tourists discover unusual places and see with your own eyes the power of human hands that once excavated rock salt, as well as magnificent mining tools and machines. And finally, at the end of the journey an elevator will take you up to the surface. Entrance hours to the Salt Mine in foreign languages are organized as follows:
English
- October to May, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., every hour, and from 10.00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. also every 30 minutes
- June to September, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every 30 minutes
- All year round at 10:45 a.m. and 4:10 p.m.
- June to September additionally at 2:15 p.m.
- All year round at 10:15 a.m., 12:05 p.m., 3:15 p.m.
- All year round at 1:10 p.m.
- April to October additionally at 9:45 a.m
- In July and August additionally at 9:45 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.
- All year round at 11:10 a.m., 2:10 p.m., 4:15 p.m.
- December 26th to January 10th additionally at: 10:10 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 1:15 p.m.
- April to October at 4:20 p.m,
- June to September additionally at 11:20 a.m.
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