This early morning your guide will take you up one last time in search of the Bison, Wolves, Bears and Lynx of the Bieszczady Mts, onto one of the best vantage points in the area. It will be a short night indeed, but well worth the effort and in fact – quite necessary if you wish to have a chance of spotting these elusive mammals when they are actually most active.
After breakfast, we will set off for a scenic journey through the Polish and Slovakian Carpathian range and via a few other National Parks, small villages and unscathed countryside. We should arrive in Pieniny National Park (Slovakia) for a traditional Slovakian lunch at a 14th c. monastery just by the Dunajec River Gorge.
Filled with Slovakian knedliki we will board the traditional wooden rafts accompanied by the Gorals boatmen (Pl: Górale – local ethnic group) for about an hour long cruise down the river through the most picturesque stretch of the Dunajec River Gorge. The breathtaking forested rocky walls here are 300m tall and it is not rare to spot a Black Stork or a Peregrine Falcon on the way.
We will finish our visit with a short walk in the Pieniny National Park (Slovakia) with chances to spot one of the rarest and Europe’s most spectacular butterflies – the Apollo.
Afterwards, we will continue our journey through the Carpathians that are getting higher and steeper as we go west, to finish in the Poland’s highest mountain range – the famous Tatra Mts. For the next three nights we will stay in Zakopane – nicknamed the Poland’s winter capital.
Hotel Biały Potok or similar
Meals included: breakfast, packed lunch, dinner