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Poland in 8 Days

These sightseeing tours serves as a presentation for tour operators and friends and they require minimum 16 persons to attend to each sightseeing tour. Our Company resides in Prague Czech Republic so should you have any questions and requests regarding flight tickets, please be so kind and contact your local travel service.

1st day	Arrival to Krakow
x	Arrival to Krakow at x, flight number y. Meeting with the tour leader from SISSY Travel Agency and transfer by coach to the hotel in Krakow. Arrival and check-in the hotel. Dinner in a restaurant of the hotel or in the restaurant in the centre of Krakow (it depends on the arrival time). [This program can begin in Warsaw, Katowice or another city according to the flights schedule]. Night in Krakow.

2nd day	Krakow – the heart of Poland and the Jewish district Kazimierz
8:00	Breakfast in the hotel
9.00	Guided tour to Krakow. Wawel Hill with the castle (without entrance) and with the Cathedral (entrance). Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture of the Old Town (Stare Miasto), the biggest Market Square in the Europe (Rynek Glowny), the Town Hall, the Clothes Hall (Sukiennice), Saint Mary’s Church (Kosciol Mariacki) with the famous Wit Stwosz' altar. Walk to the antique walls of the Old Town with Florianska Gate and the Barbican. During the visit: multimedial presentation about the story of Polish amber called Polish Gold. In the year 1978 Krakow was inscribed on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
13.30	Lunch in the restaurant of Krakow
14.30	Leisure in the centre of Krakow
17:30	Visit to the former Jewish district – Kazimierz. This part of Krakow was a centre of religious and social life of the Jewish community in Krakow until the deportations during the Nazi occupation.
20:00	Dinner in the typical Jewish restaurant in Kazimierz. During the dinner: concert of the Jewish music called klezmer.
22:00	Return to the hotel and the night in Krakow

3rd day	Krakow – Wieliczka – Wadowice – Kalwaria Zebrzydowska – Krakow
7:00	Breakast in the hotel
8.00	Departure by coach to the Salt Mine in Wieliczka
9:30	Guided tour to Wieliczka Salt Mine – one of the oldest salt mines in the world. This Salt Mine is famous for its long tourist tradition. There are many important people who visited the place: Mikolaj Kopernik, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dmitrij Mendeleev, Boleslaw Prus, Ignacy Paderewski, Karol Wojtyla, etc. In the year 1978 Wieliczka Salt Mine was inscribed on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. Return to Krakow.
13:00	Lunch in the restaurant in Wieliczka
14:30	Transfer to Wadowice, where John Paul II was born in 1920
15:30	Visit to Pope's home and to the church where he was baptized. Transfer to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
17.30	Visit to the monastery of Bernadines in Kalwaria. All the complex (sanctuary, park) is inscribed on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO
19:00	Departure to Krakow
20:00	Dinner with the typical Polish food in one of the restaurants in Krakow. The last night in Krakow

4th day	Krakow – Oswiecim-Brzezinka (Auschwitz-Birkenau) – Wroclaw
7.30	Breakfast in the hotel. Check-out the hotel in Krakow.
8.30	Departure to the museum Auschwitz-Birkenau.
10.00	Guided tour to the area of ex-concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. This camp was built by Nazis during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Today this place is a part of the the World Heritage of the UNESCO.
13.00	Lunch in the restaurant.
14.00	Departure to Wroclaw.
19.30	Arrival to Wroclaw and check-in the hotel.
20.00	Dinner in the restaurant in the old town of Wroclaw or in the restaurant of the hotel. Night in Wroclaw.

5th day	Wroclaw
8.00	Breakfast in the hotel.
9:00	Guided tour to Wroclaw: Gothic Town Hall, the University, the Ostrow Tumski complex with the Cathedral, the Leopoldine Hall. Because of the bridges and islands on the Odra River, Wroclaw is called “Polish Venice”. The tour finishes on the market square.
13:00	Lunch in the restaurant in the centre of Wroclaw.
15:00	Leisure
20:00	Dinner in the restaurant in the old town of Wroclaw.
22:00	Night in Wroclaw

6th day	Wroclaw – Czestochowa – Warsaw 7.00
8.00	Breakfast in the hotel.
9.00	Guided tour to Warsaw: Lazienkowski Park with the monument of Frederic Chopin, the ghetto of Warsaw, and Umschlagplatz – from here thousands of the Jews were deported to the concentration camps. Palace of Culture and Science, Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street, Old Town (inscribed to the World Heritage List of the UNESCO). The Castle (without entrance) and the St. John’s cathedral.
13.00	Lunch in one of the restaurants in the centre of Warsaw
14.30	Visit to the Warsaw Rising Museum (entrance) or to the Royal castle (entrance)
16:30	Leisure in the centre of Warsaw.
20:00	Dinner with the concert of music in one of the local restaurants.
22:00	The last night in Warsaw

8th day	Departure from Warsaw and from Poland
x	Breakfast. Check-out the hotel in Warsaw.
y	Transfer to the Okecie airport. Departure from Warsaw and from Poland