Krakow Salt Mine Tours – The tour usually lasts 3 hours in total. We can pick you up directly from your hotel, drive you to the salt mine, explain and help you with all here, wait until you finish sightseeing and then drive you back to Krakow. It takes around 30 minutes to drive from the center of Krakow to the amazing Salt Mines in Wieliczka, the standard guided tour takes 2 hours and you basically speaking gradually walk down all the time, at the end you go up with a lift. Normal ticket costs 95 PLN and student's ticket costs 70 PLN. For groups 11 or more people we can organize a private guide and special discounts. We highly recommend to join this tour with visiting Schindler's Factory. You can cut the costs if you do Salt Mine and Schindler's factory in one day.

The tourist route offers:

• -unique chambers with preserved traces of mining works, mining machines and devices
• -chapels with exceptional salt sculptures and bas-reliefs
• -brine lakes
• -specific microclimate
• -exhibitions
• -3000 chambers of the total length of 300 km at levels from 64 to 327 meters deep
• -a ride in the old miners lift

The unique Salt Mine in Wieliczka is one of the oldest Salt Mines in the World. It is situated 30 minutes of driving from the center of Krakow. There are nine levels of the mine, which create 300 kilometers of walking under ground. The deepest you can go is 327 meters below the sea level. While strolling through the corridors you notice all the stages of mining technology development over time and you admire all the exhibitions made there. In 1992, the mine was flooded and this unbelievably was the reason of a radical change in the perception of tourism. In recent years over 1,000,000 tourists visited the underground tourist route each year. The guided tour in the salt mine takes two hours; at the end of it you go up with a lift. Many famous people visited the mine. It has been on the list of Unesco since 1978.

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