TOUR ITINERARY:

Sunday, 28 September:
WARSAW
Overnight in Warsaw

WARSAW – CZESTOCHOWA – AUSCHWITZ – KRAKOW   

After early breakfast, we depart for Czestochowa to visit the Jasna Gora Monastery and the Black Madonna Shrine with its miraculous icon. Lunch will be served a local restaurant in Czestochowa. After lunch we drive to Auschwitz-Birkenau to visit the Martyrdom Museum of the former German Nazi concentration camp, the infamous factory of death.
(Breakfast, lunch included).

Tuesday, 30 September 2014:
KRAKOW

The morning sightseeing tour will feature Wawel, the Royal Castle, home to three dynasties of Poland’s monarchs. Its stately halls and exquisite chambers are filled with priceless art, valuable period furniture and rare ancient objects. The collection of monumental 16th century tapestries is matchless. You will also visit the Wawel Cathedral, the place of the cult of St. Stanislaw and St. Jadwiga, Queen of Poland.  Its 18 chapels are true architectural masterpieces. The giant bell, Zygmunt from 1520 ranks with the world’s largest. This is the place where Polish kings were crowned and buried. Drive to Old Town with its restored Main Square of magnificent houses and palaces. There, you stop at St. Mary’s Basilica where to see the magnificent wooden altar by Wit Stwosz. In the middle of the square is Cloth Hall built before 1349, but renovated in the 16th century with many shopping stalls inside.

We end the tour with lunch at a local restaurant.
(Breakfast, lunch included).

Included services:

• Selected class hotels, rooms with private facilities
• Mazurkas Travel English-speaking tour escort assistance
• Obligatory English speaking local guides
• Private air-conditioned motor coach/minibus (depending on the group size)
• Meals as per itinerary:
– breakfast daily
– 2 x lunch served at a local restaurants
• Sightseeing tours as per itinerary
• Entrance fees:
– Czestochowa – Jasna Gora Monastery and the Black Madonna Shrine
– Auschwitz-Birkenau
– Krakow – Royal Castle and Cathedral on the Wawel Hill, St. Mary’s Church
• Luggage handling at hotels (one piece per person)
• Hotel charges and taxes

Indication of hotels:
1 night at 3-star hotel in Warsaw (Golden Tulip or similar)
1 night at 3-star hotel in Krakow (Wyspianski or similar)