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How to get to Poland and how to podróże in the country of Poland

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Getting There & Away

There are direct flights to Warsaw from major European destinations, as well as from US cities such as New York and Chicago with large Polish communities . There is no departure tax. Train and bus fares from some European destinations can be as expensive as discounted air fares, unless you have some kind of transport pass. Road connections with Poland are good and getting better, but there are still border delays, especially when crossing from other eastern European countries. There are sea connections from the UK and Scandinavia to Gdansk, Gdynia and Swinoujscie. Most services have car-freighting facilities.

Getting Around

Internal flights are widely available, although you may miss out on lovely scenery!

The train network is very good, punctual and reliable (leaves on the line don't stop trains here!) and where they don't go the buses do. In addition to the government service, private bus companies undercut each other viciously on many intercity routes.

Driving your own vehicle around Poland is by far the most convenient option. Car hire is reasonalbly priced and available at airports, cities and larger towns.

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Rural Poland is quite conducive to cycle touring, being mostly flat and relatively quiet, but the urban areas are bike-unfriendly with few dedicated paths and many hostile motorists.

Oswiecim

Hardly an attraction in the normal sparkly sense, Oswiecim is a medium-sized industrial town 60km west of Kraków. The Polish name may be unfamiliar but its German rendering, Auschwitz, is tragically evocative. In 1945 the retreating Nazis destroyed part of what was their largest concentration camp, but what's left of the death factories in this quiet rural area is more than enough to show the magnitude of the holocaust. Four million people, 2.5 million of them Jews, were killed in Auschwitz and the linked complex at nearby Birkenau. Both are open to the public, and remain basically as they were when abandoned by the Nazis. The stories which live in the gas chambers, crematoria, barracks and barbed wire make this a haunted and shocking place.