Czakram Summer Pension
Travel Blogs from Krakow
Schindler's Day Off
... After the disappointment of missing out on Schindler’s Factory, only one thing will help. A balloon ride. We pay our 72 zlotys (36 zlotys each; cheaper on weekdays than weekends) and five minutes later we are ascending over a slightly misty Krakow. It’s a wonderful way to get a different perspective of the city… and less effort than clambering up the Town Hall Tower or the Basillica Tower…
This has cheered the Fletches up ...
Krakow... endless vokda shots!
... and and entire chapel that has been carved out of the rock salt by miners. This chapel was stunning with carvings, statues and massive chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. Even the crystals on the chandeliers are made from rock salt.
After returning from the mine touring reasonably late we had dinner, a few drinks and a walk around the city at night to enjoy the city lit up in lights before home to bed. We are touring Auschwitz tomorrow so didn't want a late one for ...
Auschwitz and Birkenau
... a constant threat, especially if the woman had cuts or sores on their bodies. The rats would crawl over the sleeping bodies for warmth and gnaw on any exposed flesh.
We then went to the final stop of our tour, the bathrooms......if you can call them that. The washing facilities were long troughs where the prisoners could splash cold water on their bodies. There was no such luxury as hot water, soap, towels, washing facilities for ...
Auschwitz
... and the nearby Birkenau are the absolute worst parts of human history. I cannot explain in words the dense darkness and emptiness you feel as you see this place. These concentration camps were designated by Hitler and the Third Reich as the place of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe." From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp from all over Nazi-occupies Europe and they were told they were ...
Krakow
... from under the boat because it was fully saturated in salt, so the suffocated from lack of oxygen. I didn't know that you can't dive in salt water. At the end of the tour we took the scariest elevator I have ever been on back to the top of the mine, it went 3497394 mph and was pitch black and shakey.
It was too late to get the scootour :( but we had some pierogies which were delicious and then hit up a club to try some polish vodka yumm =]
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