Things that are cheap in Poland:1. Haircuts (~ $3)
2. Beer/Alcohol ($1.25 for a 500mL beer even at a BAR/CLUB!!)
3. Food/Candy
4. Almost everything else
Things that are expensive in Poland:1. Some electronics (camcorders, high-end cell phones)
Most memorable events:1. Went to a 3-hour televangelist-esque Catholic mass led by an exorcist. A priest (aka "hand of Jesus") grabbed my forehead and I got healed. I'm never getting cancer. Three old ladies around me fainted/passed out/fell onto the ground due to alternating between kneeling, standing, and crying for three hours. Everyone else, including my aunt and uncle assume they fainted due to Satan leaving their bodies
2. Visiting Auschwitz
3. Visiting the Wieliczka Salt Mine
Man, I've got so many pictures it's ridiculous. I've been going through them for the past few days, trying to pick the best ones and cropping them and resizing them and fixing them up when necessary. I'm gonna post about 40 right now, and probably 80-90 more in the next couple of days.
Photos Pt. 1 (Click to reveal)
Me at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. My flight was from Boston - Frankfurt - Rzeszow
An abandoned basketball court in Chodaczow, the village where I stayed with my grandparents
This kind of damage can only be the result of a...... chaos dunk....... ("Rolnik" means "farmer")
A lake at the national park in Krynica Gorska, a small city in the mountainous part of southern Poland
A swan posing at the park
Some old stone building I found while we were hiking up a hill
Hiking up a hill. My cousins Paulina, Sabina, and my uncle Andrzej (L to R)
Uncle, cousins, going up a steep hill
A sweet villa we found while taking a scenic detour around the other side of Krynica
Graffiti on the side of a small store in Krynica. "Wilnianka" doesn't mean anything; it's just the name of a building in Krynica.
A street view of Krynica heading toward the center of the city
Some sort of large jug the local people were decorating. I noticed that lots of towns/cities in southern Poland had their own object/animal that they decorated with flowers and stuff.
Photos Pt. 2 (Click to reveal)
The Tatra Mountains in Southern Poland bordering Slovakia.
My uncle enjoying a hot massaging stream at this thermal water/spa resort place we went to. Water was 36C (body temperature). Note your first glimpse of naked Polish men in the background.
My ridiculously pasty white body posing at the thermal resort with the Tatra Mountains in the background. I'm the one in the water, not the blue swimsuit girl getting up.
The side of the Jaworzyna mountain we were about to take a lift to the top of. This was a very grammatically incorrect sentence.
The building where we bought tickets for the lift. Normal people drive to this place, but my uncle insisted we hike for 45 minutes to get there. Fortunately for me, I seemed to have developed a hiking liking while in Poland. Not so fortunate for my cousins.
One of those decorate jugs displaying the name and height of the mountain. I later found out the dinosaur(s) were part of a permanent ad for a dinosaur park in some other part of Poland.
View from the lift
View from the top of Jaworzyna Mountain
There was a tractor on the top of the mountain. I think they might have been doing construction to a restaurant or something. The town in the background in Krynica, which is where we initially started hiking from.
Me on top of a triceratops, my cousin to the left.
A cool-looking log/brick building
Another view from the top
Yet another view of Krynica from 1110 meters above sea level
This is the top of the street where our Bed and Breakfast was. This is also where we began our walk to the visitor's center of the mountain. Uncle and cousins are visible at the bottom of the street.
I forget which city this was, but we had to hike up a small hill to get to these stone ruins and a sweet view of the town below.
Also at the top of the hill was a statue of the Virgin Mary. probably one of my favorite pictures.
A view of the river in the valley below
Hello it is me sitting/laying on part of the ruins
Photos Pt. 3 (Click to reveal)
The Dunajec River near the border with Slovakia. You will later see we took a 15-minute ride on one of those rafts.
A polish mountain man and his horse
My uncle on the banks of the river
My cousin sitting also near the river
We got there late, so the only available rafting trip was a short 15-minute journey. We could have gone on a 3 hour "very scenic" raft ride if we had gotten there earlier but.... this was only 20 zloty total ($6) for the four of us.
Look at that young man laboring for us. You can tell he hates his job unlike the older man at the front of the raft.
The mountain man at the front of the raft. There's no flat paddle at the end of that stick. It was just a long wooden pole. A couple of times he'd stop rowing and take a cigarette break and talk about nature. He was cool.
That's his face.
A nice house right on the riverside.
After navigating between some sharp rocks, we beached onto a concrete platform where a few men were waiting to dismantle the 5-piece raft and load the pieces onto a truck.
There was a large rock formation in the river you may have noticed earlier. At the top is this statue of a mountain man pointing at something.
So yeah, this isn't even 1/3 of the photos
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