Departure Home for Warsaw, Poland
Arrival in Warsaw
Airport Transfer
Check-In, Refresh and Relax
Orientation Walking Tour – The group will become oriented with their neighbourhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do in case of an emergency.
Free Time
Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for a delicious Polish dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets, included.
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Warsaw Walking Tour – Old Town, Royal Castle, Palace of Culture and Science (viewpoint)
Lunch
Jewish Warsaw Walking Tour – POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial and Ghetto Area, where the group will visit among others the only still active synagogue that survived the German occupation (out of more than 400 synagogues and smaller places of worship).
Dinner (not included)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Departure for Kazimierz (Approx 3 Hours)
Kazimierz Walking Tour – Old town with its characteristic Renaissance Tenant Houses, Jewish Cemetery and Holocaust Memorial Wall.
Lunch Break
Departure for Lublin ( Approx. 1 Hour)
Arrival in Lublin and Check-In
Lublin Walking Tour – The group will visit the Old Town of Lublin with its Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
Dinner (not included)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Lublin Castle – Explore the Castle Chapel with its Medieval Russo-Byzantine Polychrome.
Lunch Break
Majdanek Concentration Camp – A guided study trip to one of the major German extermination camps (about 80.000 victims).
Dinner (not included)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Departure for Krakow (Approx 3,5 Hours)
Arrival in Krakow and Check-In
Lunch Break – Optionally, a possibility of a lunch in a modern, elegant Polish restaurant renowned for its nose-to-tail attitude and natural wine offer, not included.
Krakow Walking Tour – The city which boasts over 1000 years of history. You will see royal beauty of Krakow filled with medieval architecture, beautiful renaissance palaces, and numerous gorgeous churches.
Dinner (not included)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Day Trip to Auschwitz Concentration Camp – A guided visit (6 hrs) to the Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 was the largest of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps (around 1,5 million victims).
Lunch Break
Harmeze Monastery – A guided visit to the “Memory clichés. Mazes,” an evocative exhibition of Marian Kolodziej, a former Auschwitz prisoner (1-2 hrs).
Return to Krakow
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Polish Cooking Class + Lunch – It’s time to acquire one of the most important skills in Poland: making pierogi, and to enjoy the iconic dumplings made with your own hands - Included
Jewish Krakow Walking Tour – Kazimierz, founded in 14th century as a separate town, today Krakow’s district, was up to the WW2 home to a large Jewish community. Its numerous Synagogues survived the war. The group will also visit the former ghetto area and the Ghetto Heroes' Square in the Podgorze district.
Dinner (not included)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Trip to Wieliczka – A underground tour through one of the oldest salt mines in the world, with its famous chapel sculpted all in salt (2-3 hours).
Free Time in Krakow
Farewell Dinner and Program Closing – Jewish-Polish Dinner with Klezmer concert (included)
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Airport Transfer
Depart Krakow, Poland for Home