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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 reasonably 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.
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