Educational & Entertainment tour in Poland

Welcome to Poland !
Arrival to Krakow, Balice Airport. Transfer to the hotel and check-in.

Lunch in a local restaurant.

Culinary workshop of “obwarzanek” the traditional bajgle of Krakow. Perhaps “obwarzanek” will be the first thing you will try upon arrival to Krakow. In the Live Obwarzanek Museum you will attend a baking workshop in which you’ll bake your own bajgle. These inconspicuous parboiled dough rings have been part of city’s history for over 600 years. Beloved by citizens, tourists and pigeons! It’s been known since medieval times – kings ate it, knights ate it, even Wawel’s dragon ate it! Learn more and discover what makes them unique during 1h long obwarzanki making workshop. Each participant gets a piece of dough and leaves with their very own obwarzanek.

Dinner in the hotel.

Accommodation in a centrally located hotel in Krakow.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Sightseeing of Krakow – the cultural capital of Poland with Old Town listed as UNESCO Heritage. During the tour you would see Barbican and defensive walls with Florian’s Gate, the Main Market Square with Sukiennice Cloth Hall, St Mary’s Church and Town Hall Tower. We would proceed to the Jagiellonian University, pass by Archbishop Palace (where John Paul II used to live) as well as St Andrew’s Church and St Peter and Paul’s Church to reach the Wawel Hill.

Lunch in a local restaurant.

Transfer from Krakow to Wieliczka.

Sightseeing of Wieliczka Salt Mine – the most beautiful and the oldest operating salt mine in the world (UNESCO Heritage). From over 700 years it was a source of Polish fortune and a physical fundament of culture. Today Wieliczka is the most willingly visited Polish tourist object with magnificent chapels, charming underground lakes and original tools and equipment. During this tour you could see a number of excavated chambers on 3 levels adorned with beautiful sculptures made of salt as well as a salt museum.

Optionally instead of tourist route, you may choose the miners route. This is not a sightseeing but a real exploration in a special mining outfit! You will wander through the underground salt labyrinth, exploring the mysterious and raw chambers around the oldest preserved Regis Shaft. Tasks await you, such as searching for salt, testing the air in the mine and finding the right route underground. By performing practical mining tasks, you will get to know the work of representatives of old mining professions, such as crusher, methane tester and mining carpenter. During this expedition you will feel a shot of adrenaline, you will take part in an extraordinary, multisensory experience! Transfer back to Krakow.

Accommodation in a centrally located hotel in Krakow.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Visit to the Glass and Ceramics Center. This is the only place of its kind in Krakow! Encounter the fascinating world of glass. Take part in an exclusive demonstration of hand blown glassmaking. Learn about traditional glassmaking techniques, observe the process of glass creation and try Your strength as a glassmaker!
During the visit you will also have a chance to see the exhibition “Glass in Krakow. Industry and Art. 1931-1998”.

Paint your own stained-glass! Visit the Stained Glass Workshop and Museum is an excellent form of creative spending time. Participation in the workshops creates a unique opportunity to put yourself in the role of a craftsman. They take place in the historical interior of an authentic studio, which occupies a special place on the artistic map of the city. Workshop participants work together with experienced stained-glass artists. Each member of the group receives all necessary materials (including hand-blown stained glass) and, working under the supervision of an experienced artist, creates a small stained glass window with their own hands. It will be a completely unique souvenir from Krakow!

Accommodation in a hotel centrally located on Krakow.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Transfer from Krakow to Zator – Energylandia Amusement Park.

Entrance to Energylandia, the perfect place for all teenagers thirst for adventure and extreme experiences! This is the biggest Amusement Park in Poland, offering an impressive number of varied attractions situated on an area of 43 hectares (size comparable to the Vatican State). Energylandia is especially proud of Hyperion – the tallest and fastest Mega Coaster in all Europe. In 2020 two roller coasters of Energylandia were recognized as the best devices of this type in Europe in the international Worldofparks-Awards 2020 competition. The first place in this vote was taken by the Zadra wooden and steel roller coaster, the second – by the Hyperion. Would you venture to try them?

Transfer from Zator to Katowice.

Dinner in a local restaurant.

Accommodation in a centrally located hotel in Katowice.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Sightseeing of Katowice – this industrial city is known for discovery of rich coal reserves, at the same time is the real mixture of cultures: Polish, German & Jewish. It is a centre of science, culture, industry, business and trade and was named a UNESCO City of Music. During our trip we will also visit the real pearl of postindustrial architecture – Nikiszowiec district. This exceptional working-class estate was recently discovered by tourists.

Transfer from Katowice to Tarnowskie Gory.

Lunch in a local restaurant.

Tarnowskie Gory – the city known for historic lead-ore mining. It’s silver mine is in the UNESCO Heritage List since 2017. The visit in the Historic Silver Mine starts in an interactive museum where tourists find out more about methods of silver mining. Later on we explore underground trail that is 1,749 meters long and 270 meters are travelled by boats along mine adit. Transfer to Lodz.

Dinner in the hotel.

Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Lodz.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Sightseeing of Lodz – one of the biggest Polish cities. During your visit you will find traces of the four cultures: Polish, Jewish, German and Russian that coexisted there and became one. Furthermore, you would admire modernist and industrial arquitecture. Thanks to its numerous factories, Lodz was also called the „Polish Manchester”. During the route you would see the Old Town and the industrial complex of Poznanski family, the famous Manufaktura. Next, you would visit the Scheibler fabric complex „Księży Młyn” that is a great example of the revitalization of the city during the last years. In the end, you would discover Piotrkowska Street, the most popular walkway full of shops, pubs, restaurants and sculptures that commemorate famous inhabitants of Lodz.

Entrance to the Factory Museum which is a place where you will discover the history of textile factories established by Izrael Poznański in the second half of the 19th century. In their heyday, these plants produced millions of meters of cotton fabrics. You will also learn about the technique of producing cotton fabrics and the daily work of former workers. The exhibition presents photos, documents, videos, architectural plans, samples of raw materials and products of the factory. Here you will see how antique looms work and you will know long journey of cotton from the plantation, through the factory, to the fabric shop.

In the end you will have a chance to take part in screen printing workshops. Each participant will receive materials and tools, and then, in accordance with the instructions, they will decorate a cotton bag with a selected pattern. It will be a hand-made souvenir that you will take with you from Poland!

Free time for lunch and shopping in the Manufaktura Shopping Center.

Dinner in the hotel.

Accommodation in a hotel centrally located on Lodz.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Transfer from Lodz to Belchatow.

Time to visit the largest opencast lignite mine in Poland – the mine in Belchatow. It is 25 km long and 300 m deep. Nothing to wait for – in a few dozen years a lake will be built here! During our trip, we will go to the viewing terraces, from where you will be able to see the vast area of the mine, chimneys and the facilities of the Bełchatów power plant. Then we will get into a special vehicle and go down to the mine pit. Here you will see how giant industrial machines work. People look like ants next to them!

Lunch in a local restaurant.

Entrance to PGE Giganty Mocy, an interactive exhibition in Belchatow, which is one of the biggest attractions of the Lodz voivodeship. In the halls of PGE Giganty Mocy, learning is combined with fun. You’ll find out where the electricity is actually from. You’ll also learn its electrifying story. In this interactive museum you’ll have a lot of fun: you will experience a journey in a time machine and take part in an electric race. You’ll also take a role of a power dispatcher. During this amazing tour you will get a large dose of knowledge and hear many fun-facts about natural sciences. From the museum you will return full of energy, maybe even electrified!

Optionally (subject to availability):
During the laboratory workshop “Micro world in the macro scale”, young people will learn the parameters and functions of digital microscope cameras and their software. Students will learn how to work effectively with this interesting tooling. They will teach how to use software to prepare magical photos and videos of what is invisible to the “naked” eye.
In addition, during the workshop, we will refresh the knowledge about the construction of a biological microscope and conducting observations with its use. The summary of the classes will be the preparation of our own micrographs, which we will print and give to their authors.
Alternatively: “Workshop under tension” – Physical workshop

Transfer from Belchatow to Warsaw.

Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Warsaw.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Visit of the capital city of Poland – Warsaw. During this tour, we will visit the most important spots in the city and will have an opportunity to become acquainted with the sometimes tragic past of Warsaw and the history of Poland. We will start our tour by visiting the Old Town, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the New Town. We will continue our journey to Krasinski Palace, the Supreme Court building and the Warsaw Uprising Monument. After that, we will go to the Lazienki Royal Park where we will see the famous monument dedicated to Frederic Chopin where we will have an opportunity to relax in the beautiful rose garden and among the dazzling natural elements of the park. You will truly forget that you are in a major European Capital City.

Lunch in a local restaurant.

Visit to the Copernicus Science Centre. It contains over 450 interactive exhibits that enable visitors to single-handedly carry out experiments and discover the laws of science for themselves. The Centre is the largest institution of its type in Poland and one of the most advanced in Europe.

Accommodation in a hotel centrally located in Warsaw.

Breakfast at your hotel.

Transfer to the airport in Warsaw.
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