Wieliczka: Salt Mine Entrance and Guided Tour Ticket
ID: GYG332086-589786
Category:
Country: Poland
Duration:
03:00 hours
Description
Discover the amazing Wieliczka Salt Mine, one of the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This experience will see you taking a guided tour 140 meters underground to explore the fascinating chambers and tunnels made of salt.
Starting at the Wieliczka Salt Mine main gate, an English-speaking tour guide will hand you your entrance ticket and your tour will begin. The group will then descend the 378 stairs 64 meters down to level 1, where you will receive a brief explanation about safety regulations in the mine.
Following this, your English-speaking guide will take you 140 meters deeper underground for a 2.5-hour tour almost 3 kilometers in length. The tour consists of a regular tourist route during which you will discover long corridors, unique chambers with amazing carvings, and statues made of salt. You will hear of the legend of St. Kinga and see her amazing underground chapel, as your guide explains to you the miners' daily routines.
You will have an opportunity to get to know everything about salt extraction whilst hearing stories about past times when salt was referred to as "white gold". At the conclusion of the route you will be granted time to explore the souvenir shop and snack bar, and from there you will return to the surface with the high-speed lift.
Highlights
- Learn from an expert English-speaking guide
- Feel the amazing atmosphere in the chambers with statues made of salt
- Visit the Chapel of the Blessed Kings
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Your representative will wait to hand over the tickets at Jana Pawła II 1 Street in Wieliczka in front of main gate entrance. She/he will carry a label with description "Meeting point Wieliczka Tickets".
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
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.