A playground 125 meters underground? Only in Wieliczka!

On 14th April 2013 the new summer tourist season was opened in Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow, with two new chambers available for visitors. The new chambers named Witosa and Gwarkow are located 125 and 135 meters underground.

fot Rafał Stachurski   8 - komora Witosa

The Witos chamber is a place created especially for children. The young visitors can enjoy many attractions inspired by the history and operation of the historic mine. Therefore they will find tasks such as the signaling of shafts, communications, transport and detection of minerals. Children can see that the salt has different shapes and colors - it is a gray rock, a transparent cube of halite or cauliflower-like growths. In the right part of the chamber there is a special wall and an interactive floor - little explorers can play there a game thrashing of salt crystals, solve a quiz, make a trip in a mine cart in pursuit of unruly chunks of salt. There are also children's wooden wagons, locomotive, building blocks, carts modeled after real, used in the mine and a slide.

The Gwarkow chamber is created as a mining styled inn. It’s possible to rent it for a party. The bucket wheel and wooden gutter system installed in the chamber illustrate the old ways of mine drainage.

Based on:
http://www.kopalnia.pl/aktualnosci/z-zycia-firmy/wicepremier-piechocinski-otworzyl-sezon-turystyczny http://ttg.com.pl/index.php?mode=2&art=18160

Photo by Rafał Stachurski, source: http://ttg.com.pl/index.php?mode=2&art=18160