Auschwitz Birkenau and Wieliczka Salt Mine One Day (Private/Shared) Tour

Overview

Must-see places? Definitely Auschwitz-Birkenau and Wieliczka Salt Mine. Our special offer allows you to see them in one day.

First, we will take you (directly from your hotel, apartment, hostel) to Auschwitz and Birkenau, a place where over 1,000,000 people where killed. It was established in 1940. Auschwitz was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Auschwitz was the largest of the German concentration camps. You will spend about 3h 30min in Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, where you will join an English guided tour with the Museum’s licensed guide. The tour begins with a 15-minutes documentary film about the liberation of the camp.

After visiting Auschwitz, we will head to Wieliczka. The Wieliczka Salt Mine reaches a depth of 327 meters and is over 300 km long. To get to the 64-metre level of the mine, visitors must descend a wooden stairway of 378 steps. After a three-kilometer tour of the mine’s corridors, chapels, statues and lake, 135 metres underground, visitors take an elevator back up to the surface. The elevator holds 36 persons (nine per car) and takes some 30 seconds to reach the surface.

It features a 3.5-km touring route for visitors (less than 1% of the length of the mine’s passages) that includes historic statues and mythical figures. The oldest sculptures were carved out of rock salt by miners. Even the crystals of the chandeliers are made from rock salt that has been dissolved and reconstituted to achieve a clear, glass-like appearance.

Over the centuries famous visitors have included: Nicolaus Copernicus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Bolesław Prus, Ignacy Paderewski, Robert Baden-Powel, Karol Wojtyła (the later Pope John Paul II), former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and maybe YOU.

You can choose the place of start Auschwitz Tour and Birkenau and Salt mine tour for example: Krakow / Katowice airport, others city.