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The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland: unique in the world and amazing!

The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland What to know before you go, see and what to do? 

Si vas a the salt mine in Poland of Wieliczka, you will enjoy a unique place in the world, of a salt mine that will leave you with your mouth open.

On your way through the Wieliczka Mine, you will be surprised to feel transported to a labyrinthine world full of secrets.  Do you know that tourists only have access to 2% of all underground excavations? Imagine the treasure in these mines!

 Don't miss the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland, you'll love it!

Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland
What to know for your visit?

On your trip through Poland you must visit the amazing Wieliczka Mine. It is a unique place, which you have to visit at least once in your life, we tell you from the heart. We have traveled the world a lot and seen many monuments and unusual places, but these mines have stolen our hearts. It is the underground salt cathedral, a sculpture in itself.

Why visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland?

If you enter the Wieliczka Salt Mine, you will immediately understand that you are in front of an inestimable monument of the material culture of the world, inscribed in the year 1978, on the First UNESCO Heritage List. This is already an indication, one of the first places inscribed in this famous list of essential places to see in the world.

Infinite galleries full of sculptures ... and all of salt ...

As you walk through the mine you will have the feeling that the transversal, inclined and longitudinal galleries are never ending. But Do you know that tourists only have access to 2% of all underground excavations?

Initially the galleries that were excavated were low and sinuous, in later times, when the miners had more experience and knowledge that allowed them to more efficiently assess the location and extent of the deposit, the galleries became wider and more orderly.

The total length of the existing galleries in the Polish Wielicka Salt Mine is about 245 km. Wieliczka miners carry out an accurate inventory of the salt undergrounds and each excavation and gallery has its unique name. Today during the visit to the mine, you will still see many miners still working to keep the mine safe for all.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a complex multi-level salt maze, This is why tourists can only visit the Mine accompanied by a qualified guide, who knows the underpasses like his own hand.

It is worth knowing that Poland's Wielicka Salt Mine has 9 levels, the lowest of them is at a depth of 327 meters.

Impressive .. no?

How to visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine

Are you going to Wieliczka? The famous Polish salt mine has to be definitely on your list of destinations for Polish lands.

Visiting the mine is a great adventure, so it is worth knowing its secrets. Do not be afraid of the dark: all areas of the Tourist route are well lit.

In addition, you are always accompanied by a guide who will take you through this salt maze and will tell you all its secrets. TAnd I assure you that without a guide you would get lost, it really is a salt maze. You cannot visit the mine on your own.

Our guide was Agata, a Polish girl who spoke perfect Spanish and had a great sense of humor. The truth is that the visit was unbeatable thanks to her. In fact, she gave us the phone number since she was also a guide in Krakow and I'm going to leave it here because if you have the opportunity to hire her as a guide, you will have a great time with her, be it here or in Krakow. You can contact her by whatsapp at 00 + 48 506 619 897, really and from the heart that she is a wonderful person and with children I treat 10!

The Wielicka Salt Mine Guided Tour in Spanish 

During the visit to the Polish Salt Mine in Wielicka you can discover and admire the underground tunnels of the old Polish salt mine filled with sculptures made of salt by the miners themselves or spectacular underground salt water lakes with light and music shows. In addition, you will be able to know the trade of the salt miner, his tools and appreciate the healing properties that the salt mine itself has, where today there is also a hospital for the cure of respiratory problems.

Book now

First of all tell you that to guarantee a place and have a guide in Spanish, you must reserve your tickets online. The page is in Spanish and the purchase is very simple. You can access here to buy your tickets.

Pricing

The normal ticket price is 100 zlotys, about € 22 uros. If you are a family, there is a family ticket, for 2 adults and 2 children, that you save a little money and it will cost you 280 zlotys for 4, about € 65 for 4.

Once you have bought the tickets, you already have your day and time to enter with your guide in Spanish who will accompany you. Guided tours in Spanish are usually around 13:XNUMX p.m. each day.

Access, duration and difficulty of the visit

It is accessed through the Daniłowicz well by going down 380 steps to go down to 65 meters underground, where the guided tour that will last approximately 2 hours for a 3,5 km route that will go down by 3 Niveles from the mines, until reaching 135 meters underground. In total you will go down by 800 steps, that nothing heavy is done and to rise to the surface you will do it in elevator.

Of course, the visit to the Wieliczka Salt Mine is done with breaks. The first lasts about an hour, in the area of ​​the Drozdowice and Weimar chambers, where you can use the bathroom and visit a small snack stand.

The second break takes place after another hour of walking, in the vicinity of the Wisła-Warszawa-Budryk chambers. In this area there are also shopping stalls and the Karczma Górnicza restaurant, where excellent Polish cuisine is served.

Tips

  • Book your tickets before so as not to miss the visit in Spanish.
  • Carries warm clothes if you go in summer, You will do the whole visit at a temperature of about 17-18 degrees.
  • If you go with a baby, you can do the visit with cart for the most part, but better use a folding cart to go down the 800 steps.
  • You can take a guided tour with Wheelchair, you have to book in advance and it is adapted, you can see a part of the route and go down with the elevator.

Where to park and spend the night in the Wieliczka salt mine in Poland by motorhome or camper

The Wieliczka Salt Mines make it easy for you, like all of Poland. In the same car parks at the entrance of the mines you can park and they have a parking lot on grass for motorhomes that is signposted where they allow you to spend the night and have bathrooms. The price is 30 pln all day, and day and night 50 pln, about € 10 uros. They do not have but specific services for motorhomes. In this case, not far away you have a campsite in Wielicka with all services.

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