Travel Via Baltica Nordica - Poland

SUMMER 2005
Name of the tour: Meet the most interesting places in podlasie
Starting point: Bialystok
Ending point: Bialystok
Total length: about 500 km
Suitable number of days for the tour: 5 days
Traveling by: car, bus, train(Augustów)

Good to know:
Our currency is polish zloty, an average temperature in July and September is about 19 degrees, you can pay by credit card in most places, an average price for one night in a hotel is 40 euro and in private room 10 euro.

What you can experience:
Unique natural enviroment, possibility of watching the biggest living mammal - Zubr, a lot of lakes in the northern part of the voivodeship, 4 national parks including the most precious natural area in the country - Bialowieski National Park, the central part of the region is dominated by the valleys of the Biebrza and Narew rivers with complexes of picturesque swamps with the biggest number of bird spieces; in Bialystok there is the Palace of Branicki family, in Augustów sluice on Augustowski Channel, church complex of the Holy Trinity and baroque synagogue from 1642 in Tykocin; Post- Camedolite monastic complex from the XVIIth and XVIIIth century and beautiful lake in Wigry where Pope John Paul II stayed in 1999.

Where you can stay:
You can stay in hotels or in private rooms.
Bialystok: Cristal Hotel, Golebieski Hotel
Augustów: Warszawa Hotel, Delfin Hotel
Bialowieza: Zubrówka Hotel, Bialowieski Hotel
Wigry: Post Cameldolite monastic complex

Where you can eat:
You can eat at the hotel but there are some other interesting places for example: resteurant in Kiermusy

For more information:

information about places to see and places to stay enter the website: www.podlaskieIT.pl