wanderings on poland (13d)

Beauty is our entire Poland

Warszawa - Teatr Wielki

Karkonosze - the highest mountain range of the Sudetenland, located in the center of Western Sudetes,

on the border between the Czech and Poland. The highest peak of Karkonosze is „Śnieżka”

(„Snow White” -1602 m above sea-level).

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Karkonosze – panoramaand Liczyrzepa - the ghost of the karkonosze

View from Przesieka on the Jeleniogórska Valley

Jelenia Góra

Jelenia Góra – Market Square

Cieplice ZdrójLocated at the foot of the Sudety Mountains, near Jelenia Góra

Kowary

In Kowary there is Museum of Miniature of Lower Silesia

Kowary - Sanatorium of diseases of lung

Tunnel under the Pass Kowarska - view from Kowary.

Rudawy Janowickie Mountains

Colorful lakes - are three small ponds located in the Rudawy Janowickie, on the northern slope of Great Kopa. They are situated at an altitude of 560 to 640 m above sea level. These are flooded excavation after the old mines .

Water in the excavation takes color depending on the chemical composition of the bottom.

Cote Lake

Emerald Lake

Scarlet Lake

Scarlet Lake

Góry Sokole - mountain range with six vertices (including the Krzyżna Mountain and the Sokolik Hill)they are the north-western edge of the Erzgebirge Janowickie.

Krzyżna Góra

Sokoliki

Sokolik - one of the two pillars of rock,topped with a steel viewing platform.

Wang Temple in Karpacz

On the slope of Grabowiec, above the Pagan Valley, here is a remarkable place, surrounded by the cult as early as the Neolithic era, when the pagan rites were held here. This place is the Good Source lying at the Silesian Way - the oldest path leading across the Karkonosze Mountains in the direction of the Czech side.In the seventeenth century, was built next source the chapel dedicated to St. Anna. It has become a place of pilgrimage and a tourist attraction. To this day, takes the conviction of unusual power of water gushing from the spring. According to legend, if someone goes seven times around the chapel with the "miraculous" water in his mouth, meet him luck in love.

Good Source

Kaplica św. Anny

Karpacz – waterfall of Łomniczka

Waterfall of Łomniczka

Pilichowice - water reservoir at the dam on the Beaver river and the century-old active hydroelectric

Szklarska Poręba - center

Waterfall of Szklarka

Waterfall of Kamieńczyk

Chojnik Castle

Chojnik Castle

Palace Complex - Łomnice

Palace Complex - Wojanów

View from the top of Szrenica on the town of Szklarska Poreba

The group of rocks on Szrenica so called "The horse Heads"

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"Three Little Pigs" - a group of rocks on the slope Szrenica

Hostel "Na Hali Szrenickiej" (At Szrenicka Mountain Pasture)

Hostel „Na Szrenicy”

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On Szrenica - Friendship Road

Łabski Szczyt – seen from Szrenica

Hostel - „Pod Łabskim Szczytem”

Main Sudety Route - view from Czeskie Kamienie - the top on the right is Śmielec (1424 m). Wielki Szyszak in the middle is the second higest peak in Karkonosze (1509 m).

In the background you can see the TV transmitter above Śnieżne Kotły.

The group of rocks - "Słonecznik"

The group of rocks - "Pilgrims"

Śnieżne Kotły - Snow Boilers

Wielki Śnieżny Kocioł – Great Snow Boiler

Śnieżne Kotły - literally Snowy pits, are two glacial cirques in the western Karkonosze mountains (Giant Mountains).

They are a unique example of the alpine landscape in the area and have been a nature reserve since 1933.

Śnieżne Kotły – Top View

"Śnieżne Kotły" in winter

The trail above the Śnieżne Kotły

The Karkonoska Pass

Hostel "Odrodzenie" on the Karkonoska Pass

The „Wielki Staw” (Great Pond)

The Mały Staw (Small Pond) and the shelter of "Samotnia" (Solitude)

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Mały Staw and shelter "Samotnia” slightly higher shelter "Strzecha Akademicka” (Thatch Academic),

the oldest shelter in Polish Karkonosze

"Samotnia" at the "Mały Staw", in the depths can you see top of "Śnieżka" ("Snow White")

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„Strzecha Akademicka”

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„Strzecha Akademicka”

The road to Snow White

The road to Snow White

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The Snow White in a snow

The chapel of St Lawrence and "Flying Saucers" - Meteorological Observatory

The hotel and the Meteorological Observatory at the summit of Snow White.

Music – II Koncert fortepianowy f-moll op.21 - F.ChopinIllustrations - downloaded from web sitesThe presentation is prepared by - Anna

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