Wieliczka Salt Mine Tour from Krakow

Sightseeing  :  Poland  :  Lesser Poland Voivodeship  :  Kraków  :  Day Trips

Wieliczka Salt Mine, a Material Culture World Heritage Site, with its over 1 million guests every year, is among the most eagerly visited tourist sites in Poland.During the trip, you will visit one of the oldest working Salt Mines in the World – the Wieliczka’s Salt Mine, which has been producing table salt for over 700 years! Your English speaking guide will take you up to 140 meters underground for a 2,5-hours journey through over 2,5-kilometres long tourist route full of chambers with amazing carvings and statues and large collection of mining machines and equipment, where everything is made of salt. Please note that to reach the first level of the mine (64 metres underground), you have to descent a wooden stairway which has 378 steps. After the tour, you will be taken up to the surface with a lift. You should be back to Krakow around 13:00.

Please note that this tour is not available on: 25th of December, 1st of January, Easter Saturday afternoon and Easter Sunday.