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Krakow & Dunajec cycle path
Picture gallery
 - "Wyspianski" is a modern Hotel in the historic centre. Here we usually book the first and the last night.
 - Krakow: Wawel castle and cycle route along Vistula river
 - Zab, Poland's highest village
 - We then cycle down the mountain, past farm carts laden with hay
 - The folk culture of the people who live in the Tatras, the Gorale, has been preserved in their music, their songs and their local costume
 - Cable car brings us back to the top of Gubalowka
 - We cycle downhill...
 - through the long Dzianisz village...
 - ...to Chocholow, a village which is now a "living open-air museum" of timber architecture
 - Hotel in Lopuszna
 - In the distance we see High Tatras
 - and green Beskid Mountains.
 - Bialka - Gorge
 - The castle...
 - ...and the Hotel in Niedzica
 - The classical picture of Pieniny - Mountain: The Red Monastery and "Three Crowns Mountain". Here we start the most spectacular part of our tour.
 - We cycle along the "Pieniny Way", a narrow ledge open only to walkers and cyclists, carved out of breathtaking limestone cliffs that run the entire length of the Dunajec Gorge.
 - Unlike the tourists on wooden rafts being steered down the river by Gorale we can stop at any time to take photographs
 - The little spa town of Szczawnica is a pleasant surprise...
 - ...with its cycle-friendly separate lanes for cyclists
 - Spa gardens
 - The next stretch leads us through what is known...
 - as the "green Dunajec Gorge"
 - Old barns, granaries and hen-houses
 - Finally we arrive to Rytro.
 - Last short leg, along the Poprad river.
 - Historic little town Stary Sacz
 - An evening of Klezmer music brings the tour to a close.
Detailed programme - Krakow & Dunajec cycle path
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