• 4 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)

• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

Insight Vacations

Walk with your Travel Director around Rynek Glówny, the spacious market square at the heart of Kraków’s Old Town. See the Sukiennice Cloth Hall, St. Mary’s Basilica and the townhouses that frame this historic gathering place.

Look out for the square’s mix of Gothic, Renaissance and later architecture, and listen for the trumpeter’s call from St. Mary’s tower—a Kraków tradition that brings the city’s history into the present.

Dine with your Travel Director and fellow travellers at a local Kraków restaurant. Share regional dishes and conversation in a relaxed setting that offers an introduction to Polish hospitality.

Kraków’s food traditions draw on centuries of market life and recipes passed between households and neighbourhoods. This hosted dinner is a chance to discover local flavours while getting to know the people travelling with you.

Explore Kraków with a Local Expert, tracing its medieval core around Rynek Glówny and ascending Wawel Hill to see the Renaissance castle. Step inside Wawel Cathedral, the burial place of Polish monarchs and statesmen.

See how royal patronage, trade and university life shaped the city’s streets. The visit also takes in Kazimierz and Podgórze, including Ghetto Square, places that reveal the history of Kraków’s Jewish community and its persecution during World War II.

Explore Zakopane with your Travel Director, walking along Krupówki Street and through the market area beneath the Tatra Mountains. Look for carved timber details and examples of the Zakopane Style, developed from Highlander building traditions in the late 19th century.

Stalls displaying woodcarving and textiles reflect the craft traditions of the surrounding mountain villages. The walk introduces the character of this resort town without requiring a mountain hike.

Enjoy dinner with Góral Highlander music and dance at a local restaurant in Zakopane. Hear the brisk rhythms of Tatra folk music, played on regional instruments including the fiddle and shepherd’s flute.

The Góral traditions of southern Poland have close ties to mountain village life, with distinctive music, dress and performance styles. This hosted evening pairs local dishes with an introduction to the living culture of the Tatras.

Visit the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum in Oswiecim with a Memorial Guide-Educator. View preserved barracks, guard towers and the barbed-wire perimeter of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.

The guided visit provides historical context for the crimes committed here and space for reflection and remembrance. It is a solemn experience, centred on understanding the site and honouring the people who suffered and died there.

Visit Gniezno Cathedral and examine its two-winged bronze doors, cast around 1175. Their detailed panels depict scenes from the life of St. Adalbert, an important figure in Poland’s early Christian history.

Inside, see chapels and crypts connected with generations of archbishops and rulers. Gniezno’s place in the story of the early Polish state gives this cathedral significance beyond its striking medieval craftsmanship.

Explore Malbork Castle with a Local Expert, walking through the vast brick fortress built by the Teutonic Order beside the Nogat River. See the High Castle’s cloisters and chapter house, the Middle Castle’s great refectory and the imposing defensive walls.

Developed from the late 13th century, this UNESCO-listed medieval complex reveals how the Order combined military strength, administration and religious life within one fortified seat.

Share an end-of-tour dinner with wine at a Warsaw restaurant, enjoying a selection of local dishes with your fellow travellers. The hosted meal offers time to talk over the places and traditions encountered across Poland.

Warsaw’s restaurant scene draws on longstanding Polish recipes while embracing contemporary cooking. Dining in the capital provides a final taste of that culinary range in a convivial setting.

Descend into the Wieliczka Salt Mine near Kraków on an optional visit, available at additional cost and bookable on tour. Explore an underground world shaped by centuries of salt mining, with passages and chambers cut into the rock salt.

This UNESCO-listed mine is known for its miners’ craftsmanship, including salt-carved sculptures and the remarkable Chapel of St. Kinga. It offers a different perspective on the work and ingenuity behind one of Poland’s historic industries.

Explore Wroclaw with a Local Expert, taking in the colourful facades of the Rynek and the neighbouring Plac Solny flower market. Watch for the bronze gnomes dotted around the centre.

Wroclaw’s architecture reflects a city shaped by Polish, Bohemian, Austrian, Prussian and German rule. Its restored squares offer a close view of that layered past, while the gnomes recall the city’s more recent tradition of playful public art.

Discover Poznan’s early history with a visit to Ostrów Tumski, or Cathedral Island, a place closely associated with the emergence of the Polish state in the 10th century. Explore the Old Town on a guided walk with a Local Resident.

Pause at the Renaissance town hall and examine market-square facades restored after wartime damage. Together, Cathedral Island and the merchant streets show two enduring sides of Poznan’s heritage.

Taste Poznan’s St. Martin’s croissant and learn how its layered dough and white poppy-seed filling are prepared. Sample a pastry made to the protected regional specification while hearing the story behind this local speciality.

The croissant is closely linked to Poznan’s 11 November St. Martin’s Day tradition. This tasting offers a hands-on introduction to a food custom that remains an important part of the city’s identity.

Walk through UNESCO-listed Torun with a Local Expert, following streets lined with Gothic brickwork. See the market square, the leaning tower and surviving sections of medieval wall.

Founded by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century, Torun grew into a trading town on the Vistula and became the birthplace of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Its well-preserved street plan makes that medieval history unusually easy to trace on foot.

Explore Gdansk with a Local Expert, viewing the harbour towards Westerplatte and stopping at the Gdansk Shipyard gates, associated with the Solidarity movement. Walk through the historic centre to see merchant houses and Hanseatic-era brickwork.

Westerplatte recalls the opening battles of World War II in 1939; the shipyard speaks to the workers’ movement that challenged communist rule in the 1980s. Gdansk’s trading streets connect those modern histories to its Baltic maritime past.

Discover Warsaw with a Local Expert, seeing the Palace of Culture and Science and visiting the Chopin Monument in Lazienki Park. Pay your respects at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and walk through the Old Town.

The memorial honours the resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, while the Old Town’s carefully reconstructed streets speak to the city’s devastation and rebuilding after World War II. This tour brings Warsaw’s cultural life and difficult history into focus.

Join your Travel Director for a craft beer at Piwnica Swidnicka in Wroclaw’s market square. This optional hosted outing is at additional cost and bookable on tour, offering a sociable way to spend an evening in the Old Town.

The historic cellar traces its origins to 1273 and is renowned as one of Poland’s oldest dining establishments. Its setting beneath the town hall connects a contemporary drink with Wroclaw’s long tradition of gathering around the Rynek.

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