The main square almost empty of the usual tourists, the people of Krackow clean their streets and get things ready to greet the tourists. While myself and my husband are there taking some shots of this before leaving Krackow for our journey home to Scotland

We spent the day touring the main Square and walked round The Planty passing the Barbican Centre and the Florentine Gate.
We also stopped and looked at adisplay of photographes taken by various photographers about the life of Pope John Paul who used to be a priest in Krackow.

Our first full day in Krakow and we spent in walking around in extremely hot weather. We did a circular walk taking in Churches, Jewish museum, Jewish Market, The Cathedral and Wawel Castle.

Leaving Zakopane in the morning, we travelled by coach to Krackow settled into our hotel, we then did a quick walking tour of the immediate area of the Main Square, Cloth Hall and surrounding area.
In the evening we went with friends to one of the many eating places in the main square.

While a small number of our group decided to do the Mount Giewont Walk and an even smaller number took on the challenge of climbing to the top of the Mount, Alan & I and a number of other people decided to opt out of the organised walk and do our own thing.
Alan and I decided that we would explore Zakopane. We visited the Ski Jumps, did a walk skirting the national park, visited the market, took the Fenicular to the top of Gubalowka where we had lunch. We then walked along the top of Gubalowka to the chair lift and decended the mountain experiencing the most peaceful and quiet decent while sitting in the chair lift, from here we were able to see the whole valley floor and the mountain peaks. When we arrived back at our hotel we noted that we had actually walked for longer than we would have done had we gone on the walk.

A trip deep below the earth into the Wieliczka Salt Mines which sunk its first shaft between 1635-1640.
This was a truly facinating visit. Below the gground you could find great halls, ballroom, and chapels.

A walk in the Tatra Mountains, starting at Kiry and walking to the Ornak Mountain Hut where we had lunch. We then walked up to Smreczynski Staw a lovely mountain lake before heading back to the bus and back into Zakopane

A day spent visiting Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camps

A walk in the Tatra Mountains. Starting from Wierch Poroniec and walking to Polana Rusinowa, our group split here with the high walkers going on to Gesia Szyja and through Rowien Waksmundzka to the Stara Roztoka mountain hut where we again met up with our low walking group and had lunch then travelled back by bus to Zakopane

A very easy day, you could walk, cycle,travel by small train part of the was or even ride in a coach to the mountain hut where we had lunch. Our first taste of the mountain area of the Tatra's
Lovely scenery

We travelled from Prestwick Airport to Krackow Airport, we then travelled to Zakopane in the mountain area in the south of Poland.