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6 days / 5 nights
 Hand Painted Easter Eggs
Day 1 Maundy Thursday Cracow
 Wieliczka - Salt Mine
Group's arrival to Cracow. Meeting your guide at the
Balice Airport and transfer to the hotel. Welcome cocktail and check-in.
In the afternoon we visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine, the oldest working
salt mine in Europe ! You will be transferred by elevator 120 metres
below ground, seeing marvellous chapels and sculptures made out of salt
throughout the Centuries. You will admire the underground world of salt
lakes, galleries, stairs, altars and chambers all carved in salt by many
generations of Polish miners, not artists. You will pass through 20
fascinating chambers. The Chapel of St. Kinga – a great chamber like a
big church – with a splendid collection of sculptures and bas-reliefs
makes this place terrific! Don’t forget to see the amazing carving of
the Last Supper. Please note – everything is made from the salt or in
the salt. The tourists can see only 2 % of the whole mine, only 3.5 km
of underground routes from more that 200 km. The tourist route takes
about 2 hours. Dinner with folklore music in a traditional Polish
restaurant.
D/O Cracow
Day 2 Good Friday Cracow - Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - Wadowice - Cracow
 Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - Franciscan Monastery
It starts in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska for the Passion
Mystery, a traditional open-air spectacle of the Way of the Cross. Next
continue to Wadowice - the birthplace of the Pope John Paul II, visit to
the Pope’s house, which is now a museum. En route to Krakow visits to
local churches to see the traditional Grave of Jesus displays. Evening
penitential service in Franciscan Basilica with a procession through the
cloisters with a religious confraternity in black hooded robes. Dinner
at the hotel restaurant.
D/O Cracow
Day 3 Holy Saturday Cracow
 Krakow - St. Anna Basilique
Morning sightseeing of Cracow including : Wawel Hill,
Royal Cathedral - for centuries a burial place of Polish kings, Market
Square with Renaissance Cloth Hall with numerous souvenir, St. Mary's
Church with the famous wooden altar, Collegium Maius, the oldest college
of Jagiellonian University, founded in 1364 year. We will see
traditional blessing of the Easter food baskets in churches. Afternoon
at leisure.
D/O Cracow
Day 4 Easter Sunday Cracow - Bielany - Cracow
 Krakow - Camaldolese monastery in Bielany
Traditional Easter breakfast with wishes and Easter
souvenirs. Excursion to Bielany - Camaldolese Hermitage Church (Easter
Sunday is one of the 12 days during a year when the hermits allow ladies
to visit their church). Dinner in a restaurant.
D/O Cracow
Day 5 Easter Monday Cracow - Zakopane - Cracow
 Zakopane - Jaszczurówka
Easter breakfast followed by a visit to the district of
Salwator for the Premonstratensian Church and the famous Emaus Easter
Fair with the traditional water-splashing. Easter Monday is called "Wet
Monday”. Departure for Zakopane. Zakopane is known as a capital of
winter sports and mountain tourism. It is, as well, the centre of the
Highlanders culture. They cultivate their tradition, which reflects in
their folk costume, traditional wooden architecture, glass paintings,
etc. Sightseeing of the oldest part of town, cable lift onto Gubalowka
hill, lunch accompanied by traditional Highlanders menu and folk music.
Shopping. Return to Cracow for dinner and overnight stay.
D/O Cracow
Day 6 Tuesday Cracow
Breakfast as usually. Depends of dept. time - time for leisure, shopping.
Departure.
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