From Kraków: Wieliczka Salt Mine Guided Tour Tour in English from a meeting point
ID: GYG417322-1097489
Category:
Country: Poland
Duration:
04:30 hours
Description
Discover the Wieliczka Salt Mine with an authorized guide and see original caves, ramps, lakes, chambers, and shafts. Follow a specially prepared tourist route located 135 meters underground.
Discover one of the most important industrial sites of the Middle Ages on a guided tour of the impressive Wieliczka Salt Mine. We will pick you up from your hotel in Krakow and then travel in a comfortable air-conditioned minivan with a professional driver.
Meet your authorized guide upon arrival, then venture underground to discover a unique underground art museum. Eight hundred steps down, you will reach a depth of 135 meters, following a route of approximately 2 kilometers through a variety of chambers.
Currently, it is one of the official national monuments of Poland - and is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In the Wieliczka salt mine, there are dozens of statues and four chapels carved by rock salt miners, as well as additional sculptures made by contemporary artists.
Highlights
- Explore the Wieliczka Salt Mine with an authorized guide
- Learn the history of the salt mine, from the 13th century
- Buy unique rock salt souvenirs
- Return to the surface in the original mining elevator
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
You choose your preferred start time which is not guaranteed. You will be informed about the exact starting time of the tour the day before the tour.
You will need to walk down 800 steps to enter the salt mines. The return trip back to ground level is by original elevator
The hotel pickup time is subject to change. In the event of this occurring you will be informed by phone, email or at reception
Bring valid student ID if you book a reduced price ticket
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.
