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Poland offers a whole variety of different landscapes. In the south there are the mountains: Carpathian Mountains, High Tatra Mountains and Beskiden. The rivers Vistuland and Oder, with their many small tributaries, dominate the country side further towards the north. In the northeast the Masurische lakes region offers more than 3000 lakes, these invite the visitors to be discovered. Poland’s Baltic Sea beaches attract the travelers with their wide sand beaches, dunes and high cliffs. Further one can try ones luck while searching for amber. Europe’s only shifting sand dunes can be found near Lebare.
The national park Bialowieza right next to the border of Byelorussia is also unique. 250 bison graze in the last European jungle.
If you want to visit some towns, we like to especially recommend Krakow. It was Poland’s capital until 1596. One can admire the skills of Polish restorers here, but also at Gdansk or Warsaw. They have restored several historical buildings, which were destroyed during World War II., to its former beauty.
If you are much more interested in Poland’s incredible country side, you will certainly discover a large variety: Many farmer villages give the impression that nothing has changed for decades. Some sleepy master house or castle seems to dozes away here. One should plan plenty of time for the riding tours because motorways are rare in Poland.
On Polish tables one will find lots of traditional food. A lot of fish, Kabanos (long, thin, heavily spiced sausage) or soups as Barszcz (beetroot-soup with sour cream) or Rosol (beef- or chicken-consommé). Zrazy Zawijane (beef olive filled with mushrooms in sour cream) with cooked Kascha (buckwheat) is typical Polish.
With the food they like to drink vodka. It can be bought as clear vodka (Wyborowa) or with flavor: Zubrowka (bison grass), Tarniowka (sloe), Sliwowica (plum) and Pieprzowka (white pepper).
Some geography:
Poland spreads across an area of 313,000 square kilometers and has 38.6 million inhabitants. Language of the country is Polish. Most of the Poles are Catholics. Two national holidays are celebrated. One of which is the 3rd of May, the day when the first Polish constitution came into effect in 1791. The second is November 11th, the day on which the Poles declared their independence in 1918. |
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