Wieliczka and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz-Birkenau and Wieliczka trip map On this trip you have a chance to see to objects placed on UNESCO Heritage List. First we take you for a fascinating pilgrimage into the past of a major industrial undertaking. We drive you to Wieliczka, which is the oldest working mine opened for tourists in Europe. Salt was mined here since the 13th century. Almost 3000 chambers are connected by nearly 300 km of corridors.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
You can see a giant caverns, underground lakes, chapels with sculptures in the crystalline salt and rich ornamentation carved in the salt rock. Go into the largest and the most beautiful among underground chapels - Chapel of Saint Kinga. Here even the chandeliers are made of salt!

The other part of the trip is visit in Auschwitz – Birkenau, established in May 1940. KL Birkenau main gate It was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. There were up to seven gas chambers using Zyklon-B poison gas and three crematoria. The estimated number of deaths is 1.1 to 1.5 million killed in gas chambers. About 330,000 deaths were caused by systematic starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, and so-called medical experiments.

We recommend that children under 14 not go for this trip.

Duration: approximately 10 hours

Optionally:
Entrance fee to Wieliczka Salt Mine 20 € / pax / English tour/ guide included
Entrance fee to Auschwitz free, price for English tour 13 € / pax, price for private English guide 70 €

Price from 158 EUR - per trip, up to 3 people.