Today, Mary and Wendy went out for any early morning stroll and I stayed back for a slower start. Today we were heading out for the Wieliczka Salt Mines just outside of Kraków. These mines were started in the 13th century and reach to a depth of 327 metres (we only got as deep as 183m). We headed out to the Kraków Glowny train station but we could not find a train for Wieliczka and we were later told that there was no train on this day. We went back to the info centre to get some bus information and were able to run upstairs and manage to get on the bus just before it pulled out. Forty minutes later, we were at the mines.
Our tour started with some 400 steps down to the first level. There are over 100 km of tunnels and shafts and we seemed to have covered most of them by the end of our tour. This was all about the salt. Floors, walls and statues were all made of salt.
When we finished the tour we were guided to an elevator that was about a km away and were lifted back to the top. When we got out we were in a totally different part of the town. So we stumbled our way around looking for the bus stop when we came upon a train! We checked it out and were able to buy tickets back to Krakow in well air-conditioned car. Back in Krakow we took a different walking route back and ended up near the Barbican
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