Beginning of the Wieliczka Salt Mine

Just outside of Krakow. This place was still mining salt up until the late 1990's when they shut it down however it has been a tourist attraction for hundreds of years! The mine consists of nine levels going down to a depth of 327m. There are 2,040 chambers connected by 200km of passages.

The Charm of Bohemia

March 6th 2008
Dobry den Well we’re writing this on our last night in the Czech Republic, in fact our last night in Eastern Europe (I think our first “real time” blog so far - woohoo!). We decided to return to our favourite places from summer - Krakow, Poland and Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. We are so glad that we decided to return as we’ve had an absolute ball revisiting these fantastic and beautiful ... read more

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Following the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged to form Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country's leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of ot... ... read more

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