Salt Mine

With temperatures here hitting 30 degrees by 8am, and currently 34+, we were glad we had picked today to visit the Unesco World Heritage site, the Wieliczyka Salt Mine. Still, the temperature inside was a balmy 17 degrees today. The mine is now just for tourists - its no longer economical to mine for the salt, although they still filter the water for salt.

Inside, the miners had built at least 23 chapels, but not all were on the tourist route. As it was, we walked several km, and by the time we got back to the apartment, I had clocked up over 10,000 steps. Yesterday we clocked over 20,000 by the time we had been out for dinner in the evening. Today will clock over 15,000 at least. 

The photo is from the grandest room,  a Cathedral where they still hold mass on Sunday's. Poland is very religious it seems. You can see the high altar, carved out of salt, behind the chandelier, carved from salt. The extras show the full enormity of the room, and then a shallow lake passage - the lake of course is full of salt, and people have drowned because it was so salty they were unable to come up for air apparently.