[night86mare] Krakow, Poland

[night86mare]

#37

On to other places - the Town Square at night. On weekends they have this cool bazaar thing going on, selling trinkets, food at inflated prices but it is a nice experience I guess. Some of the store owners packing up to go home. As you can see, even with this late timing (the sun sets very late, about 9 pm), only on weekends, you get people still milling around the place.

 

[xunjas]

nice scenes and nice shots u got there. =)

 

[night86mare]

nice scenes and nice shots u got there. =)

hi xunjas, thanks as always for your kind comments

 

[night86mare]

#38

Horses that draw tourists (fat ones at that, hurhur) all the way from Zakopan entrance into Tatras mountain range, all the way to a carpark 1-2 km away from Moskie Oko. The horses are feeding, poor horses.

 

[night86mare]

#39

House pretty near the Moskie Oko lake, Moskie Oko stands for "Eye of the Sea" in Polish.​

 

[night86mare]

#40

Different view, same house​

 

[night86mare]

#41

First view of the supposed grand prize - Moskie Oko​

 

[cthep2]

nice captures of the sceneries there:thumbsup:

 

[sprintist]

interesting historical places you visited, stop making me gian..i already gian when you said you willb e going..now that you have went..wah lao! hahaha

after seeing your new posts, those 16:9 croppings are still more striking i dont know why. but i always enjoy your travelogue

 

[night86mare]

nice captures of the sceneries there:thumbsup:

interesting historical places you visited, stop making me gian..i already gian when you said you willb e going..now that you have went..wah lao! hahaha

after seeing your new posts, those 16:9 croppings are still more striking i dont know why. but i always enjoy your travelogue

cthep2 - thanks bro

sprintist - hahaha, ok la, i thought could have done better actually..

glad you enjoyed the pictures.. meet up soon, i'm back in sg already!

 

[night86mare]

#42

 

[night86mare]

#43

father and child​

 

[night86mare]

#44

yet another view of the lake​

 

[night86mare]

#45

random stump by side of road back to zakopan
(oops, just realised that cropping is not done properly..)​

 

[night86mare]

#46

part of the woods, on the way back to the gate to tatras national park​

 

[night86mare]

#47

Emperor Zurg sulks at the furnicular railway station. For people interested in this it is easier to get to, but the views are not as nice.. suggest bring longer lens.. Or take the ski(?) lift up higher.

And please, do not be me. Me and my friend took the slope up to avoid paying some money.. The path is a lot steeper after the first initial slope.. And it is a lot, a lot longer than it looks. Just pay the money.

 

[night86mare]

#48

now for the wieliczka salt mine, very cool place with an extremely beautiful chapel and some very nice salt sculptures and murals that the bored salt miners had done.

this is one set of salt sculptures.. depicting the legend of the ring of kinga:

The Hungarian princess Kinga was to marry the sovereign of Krakow. She wanted to bring a wealthy gift for her fiancé. As the people in Poland had everything except salt, she asked her father for a salt mine as adowry, which he provided. She threw one of her rings into a salt mine of her father and travelled to Poland. Near Krakow, in Wieliczka she told the people to dig a deep pit. The miners found salt, and enclosed in the first piece of salt they mined was the ring of Kinga.

 

[night86mare]

#49

Passage within the salt mine​

 

[night86mare]

#50

The beautiful salt chapel with its chandeliers, flooring and tourists. I do not do it justice.​

 

[xunjas]

beautiful place, i like the colors and the places u captured. =)