Event Detail

Wieliczka Salt Mine visit (afternoon tour) incl. refreshment (24 Sept. 2016)

Price: 60 EUR
Date: 2016-09-24
Time: 14:00-19:30

Tourist Route
* Visit Wieliczka Salt Mine – a world class tourist attraction and UNESCO site – which will definitely
be an unforgettable underground experience.
* Over 700-year-old, this monument of history has been created by many generations of Polish miners.
* You can see up to 20 excavated chambers on 3 levels: the main one is located 130 meters below the ground level.
* Exceptional in its beauty, with the rich interior decoration of the chapels – including the most beautiful of Blessed Kinga, the original linings of the galleries and workings, and the underground salt lakes.
* Chambers are decorated with beautiful statues sculpted in salt.
* A wooden staircase with 378 steps provides access to the mine’s 64-meter (210-ft) level.
* 3-kilometre tour features corridors, chapels, statues, and lake, 135 metres underground.
* An elevator returns visitors to the surface; the elevator holds 36 persons (nine per car) and takes some 30 seconds to make the trip.
* The temperature in the salt mine stays around 14 degrees Celsius.
* Duration: ca. 2 hours
* Difficulty level: light
* Number of persons per group: up to 35