Underground Adventure Routes

At Wieliczka, you can take The Miners' Route, which is inspired by the workers of yesteryear. A guide will take you through the mine and give you tasks to do. You will examine the unknown chambers, search for salt, transport it yourself, use tools to process salt blocks, remove excess water, and even measure methane and salinity levels! You'll gain insight into the life, traditions, and customs of miners. For a moment, you'll be immersed in complete silence and complete darkness which you cannot experience anywhere else on the surface. If you pass your training, you will officially become a miner!

Another option is the Mysteries of the Wieliczka Mine. This is a physically-demanding 4-hour route that leads you through three levels of the mine. Equipped with a helmet, overalls, and torch, you will wander through narrow salt corridors, where you'll have to lean, squeeze, or climb the damp ladders. You'll encounter chambers and tunnels with rich historical and geological value, examples of recrystallisation, including salt cauliflowers and beautiful stalactites. You may get tired and dirty, but the tour is totally worth it. For now only a selected few can see the true miracle of nature, discovered only at the end of the 19th century, the Crystal Caves, where walls are covered with unique and extremely large monocrystals of perfectly pure transparent salt.

At the Bochnia Mine, you can try The Nature Route, which takes you through the harsh interiors of the medieval excavations. You'll see different types of rocks and minerals, beautiful salt formations, efflorescence and cauliflowers, and even... salt hairs. You'll see an extremely rare fluorescent halite that shines orange in the light of UV lamp, and learn how it was formed. On the three hour trip, you'll cross an underground salt lake on a boat, and see the Chapel of St. Kinga of Poland, the only one in the world with an underground railway

Bochnia also offers the historic route called The Old Mountains Expedition. On this adventure, you'll be guided along the trails of the oldest, medieval, and previously-unavailable mine workings.