Krakow: Full-Day Auschwitz-Birkenau & Salt Mine Guided Tour Shared Tour in English with Meeting Point and Lunch
ID: GYG145719-O-752677
Category:
Country: Poland
Duration:
11:00 hours
Description
Experience the history of the former Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, with a live guide. Discover an underground monument on the tour of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, a unique UNESCO site.
Book at least 5 days in advance to get the best price.
Experience history at Auschwitz-Birkenau and learn about the inhuman conditions of life during the Second World War from your guide on a walking tour. Visit the Wieliczka salt mine to see its incredible salt sculptures.
Sit back and take in the Polish landscape as you drive out of Kraków to Auschwitz-Birkenau for your day of history. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the largest death camp in human history, the site of mass destruction and genocide in Europe during World War II.
Learn how the camp built by the Nazis in 1940 in the suburbs of Oswiecim became the place of deaths and executions of an estimated over 1 million people of 28 nationalities. Almost 90% of them were Europeans of Jewish origin.
As you walk through the former concentration camp, feel the deep impression it imprints on you, partly because it allows you to imagine the scale of the Holocaust. Since 1979, this site has been on the UNESCO Cultural and Natural World Heritage list.
Visit the Wieliczka salt mine, one of the most treasured monuments in Polish cultural history. Over a million tourists visit the salt mine yearly to see its exquisite carvings and reliefs.
This unique place, listed on the UNESCO Cultural and Natural World Heritage List since 1978, placing it even higher on tourists' "to-do list". See the work of miners, who left dozens of sculptures and bas-reliefs cut out of the salt, keeping their work alive for decades.
Highlights
- Visit the largest former Nazi concentration camp
- Learn the history of Auschwitz and the Holocaust
- See dozens of sculptures and bas-reliefs cut out of the salt
- Explore winding underground corridors, salt chambers, and lakes
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Please provide your full name and contact details when booking. You must have a passport or valid photo ID to enter the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
• You will receive the exact departure time and itinerary details (order the visits and lunch break details) the day before your tour
• The time of departure is approximate and may change by a few hours
• From March 2020, new guidelines mean booking in advance is the only way to ensure you can visit. It is not always possible to change the ticket date and time
• Please dress modestly out of respect for the lives lost here and according to the weather
• Vegetarian and vegan meals are available for the lunch options
• The temperature in the Salt Mine is around 14-15 degrees Celsius. Please dress accordingly
• There are 800 steps to climb of which 350 at the beginning take you down into the mine. There's a lift to the top of the mine at the end of the route
All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
You are required to bring and wear a mask
There's tourist bus stop behind the tram stop, under the "Poczta Glowna" building.
Hotel pick-up and drop-off
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
Cancellation is not possible. If you cancel it anyway or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity and the money you paid will not be refunded.
