The Wieliczka Salt Mines

Hand of Evil · Sep 9, 2004

I hope people have been looking at the photos but GNOMES!

Ferret · Sep 9, 2004

Wow that is cool. To have sports halls and 3 DAMNED CHURCHES! It's huge! Wow.

TheAuldGrump · May 25, 2005

Wow, I somehow missed this last year... I have a friend who visited the salt mines while in Poland - they were his favorite part of the entire trip, more than half the photos he brough back were of the mines. He was bragging about how much he fought going to visit the mines, and how glad he was that he had been pressured into it. He had thought that they would just be tunnels lined with salt.

Portions are now closed due to water damage, which is a darned shame. And there is an enormous swimming pool down there as well...

The Auld Grump

the Jester · May 25, 2005

TheAuldGrump said:
And there is an enormous swimming pool down there as well...

The Auld Grump

SOMETHING'S GOT MY LEG!!!!

Hand of Evil · May 25, 2005

This has been on the History Channel too, the canals were only closed in the 1970s after some drunk Swedish tourists overturned their boat and drowned, caught under the boat and unable to swim out.

mojo1701 · May 25, 2005

I was there, man, almost exactly 4 years ago. They are beautiful, and the air, despite being underground, is pure.

I have asthma (and I'm fat), so a long climb down the stairs would've killed me (not literally), but I was amazed at how good I felt afterwards. It is amazing down there! There's even a long staircase and hall which seems like an unearthed lost kingdom.

And since the air is pure down there (due to the salt), they have rehabilitation clinics for people with bad breathing.