Steppes & marshes
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- Our short cycle tour
- follows the clear...
- river Nida
- Good tarmac road with hardly any traffic
- Charming villages
- Castle ruins with stork nest
- Gypsum hills overgrown with unusual steppe vegetation,
- and... broad gauge railway leading here from Russia.
- Roadsigns for cyclists
- Short before Busko
- New cycle road in the centre
- leads to spa gardens
- Three-star hotel Gromada
- and new four-star Hotel
- "Sloneczny Zdroj" ("Sunny Spa")
- with swimming pool
- Willow avenue
- Small roadside chappel
- Cycle road in Chroberz village,
- and another sunny beach at Nida river
- Gypsum rocks in Skorocice reservation
- And again many quiet, narrow tarmas roads
- We cycle through Chotel Czerwony
- towards...
- ...once mighty, now small and quiet town Wislica
- Further we pass fishpond area
- - famous birdwatching spot
- To Solec Zdroj - here the Solanna*** pension
- and Hotel Malinowy Zdroj**** (Raspberry Spa)
- Wild flowers alond the roads
- Cumin fields (herb used for cucumber pickling)
- More and more pollarded willows
- Roads decorated for a church fiesta
- Wild gardens
- Field road in Vistula valley
- And a real attraction - old ferry across Vistula
- Foreing cyclists are still 'rare birds' here.
- Are we already in Zalipie?
- - yes, the famous, colourful village.
- Local culture centre and souvenir shop
- Perhaps the most charming...
- od dozens painted houses.
- Village pub
- Foreing and Polish cyclists meeting
- Loessic ravine,
- another roadside chapel,
- even a deeper ravine,
- and again Nida river - see you soon!
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