School trip to Kraków: Wawel Castle, Wieliczka Salt Mine and Nowa Huta (5 days)

Day 1: Journey to Poland

• Departure from your school at the agreed time, in the late afternoon.
• Overnight journey to Poland with two drivers on board: our drivers drive for 3 hours at most, then take a 30-minute break, day and night.

Day 2: Kraków’s old town

• Arrival in Kraków in the morning and luggage drop at the accommodation.
• Walk through the old town: St Florian’s Gate, the Barbican, the Main Market Square and the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice).
• Listening to the hejnał, played every hour from the tower of St Mary’s Basilica.
• Visit to the underground museum beneath the Market Square (Podziemia Rynku) (on request).
• Check-in, dinner and overnight stay at the accommodation.

Day 3: Wawel and Kazimierz

• Breakfast at the accommodation.
• Guided tour of the Royal Castle and Wawel Cathedral (on request).
• Visit to the Dragon’s Den (Smocza Jama), open in season (on request).
• A look at the fire-breathing dragon statue at the foot of the hill.
• Afternoon: walk through Kazimierz, the former Jewish quarter, and its synagogues.
• Visit to the Collegium Maius, the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University, where Copernicus studied (on request).
• Dinner and overnight stay at the accommodation.

Day 4: Wieliczka and Nowa Huta

• Breakfast, then a short coach ride to Wieliczka.
• Guided tour of the Wieliczka Salt Mine and St Kinga’s Chapel, carved out of salt (on request).
• Afternoon: discovering Nowa Huta, a planned socialist town, from its central square to its wide avenues.
• Guided tour of Nowa Huta on communist-era Poland (on request).
• Dinner and overnight stay at the accommodation.

Day 5: Back to Belgium

• Breakfast, then the journey home with two drivers on board and regular breaks (at least 30 minutes every 3 hours).
• Return to school late in the evening.