Top Things to do in Eastern Poland
Top 10 Hidden Gems Things to do in Eastern Poland, Eastern Poland
An area that changed flags several times in the 20th century, Eastern Poland consists of Podlaskie, Lublin and Subcarpathian Voivodships (Provinces). The largest cities in each are Bialystok, Lublin and Zamosc respectively. The Masurian Lake District in the northeast includes Wigry National Park and Lake Hancza, the deepest lake in Poland. Bialowieza National Park, on the Belarusian border, protects one of the last remaining sections of a huge primeval forest that once covered Eastern Europe.
Restaurants in Eastern Poland
1. DoorToPoland
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5.0 based on 32 reviews
Experienced tour guides, genealogical researchers and translators offering customized guided tours, for individuals and groups, with a focus on Polish heritage, WW2 and the Holocaust. We also do family heritage tours and genealogical research in the State archives and specific towns and village around Poland. We translate civil records and other documents from Russian and Polish into English.
2. ROOTKA - Following Heritage Traces
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5.0 based on 24 reviews
ROOTKA is a travel agency based in Lublin, Poland, specializing in tailor-made tours and bookings related to Jewish heritage sites in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. We organize trips to cities, towns, shtetls and memorial sites with guiding in English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish.
3. Wild Poland Wildlife Tours
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5.0 based on 92 reviews
Wild Poland is probably the best wildlife watching tours company in Europe. We are specialists and fanatics of wildlife watching adventures. Join us to go birding or see European Bison, Elk, Beaver and even go tracking Wolves, all in the wild Eastern Poland. Choose from a wide range of trips or get professional guidebooks and detailed maps for self-guiding. Our customers love us, here are a few reasons why.
4. Bialowieza National Park Tours
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4.5 based on 139 reviews
Oferujemy usługi przewodnickie w obiektach Białowieskiego Parku Narodowego - Muzeum Przyrodniczo-Leśne, Obszar Ochrony Ścisłej,Rezerwat Pokazowy Żubrów, Park Pałacowy- w regionie Puszczy Białowieskiej oraz na terenie województwa podlaskiego.
Reviewed By Givingtree23 - Leipzig, Germany
Based on past reviews on TripAdvisor, we booked an English-speaking tour thru PTTK. While I could spend all day out, my teenage daughter was not so gung ho, so I booked the 4h “most popular tour”. The back and forth via email was a little trying, but they just wanted to check, double-check (and triple-check) that I understood that if no one else requested an English tour on that day, then I would have to pay the full price (~ 400 zloty) for a tour. If anyone else joined in later, they promised that I’d be refunded some portion. Plus, I had to pay in advance by either transferring the money or by sending my credit card details via unsecured email. So, it’s expensive and a leap of faith, but because of the positive reviews here, I was confident they were a trustworthy group. Visiting this park has been in my bucket list for over 20 years, so I was willing to take on the expense. I decided to transfer the tour fee via TransferWise (*much* cheaper and faster than bank-to-bank, can highly recommend). Indeed we were the only English speakers that day (at least with PTTK, which seems to be the main outfit in the park), and so we had Patryck all to ourselves. We absolutely hit the jackpot. He is a scientist in the field, an encyclopedia of knowledge, enthusiastic, friendly, and said that when talking about Bialowieza, he was more comfortable speaking in English than in Polish. We learned a lot from him and had a very enjoyable time. It was an easy, flat walk through the woods, relating historical events to the current situation. The bugs weren’t too bad (but later in the day elsewhere in the park they were horrendous!), sneakers perfectly adequate, long pants/trousers recommended (some narrow paths with stinging nettles). We didn’t see any wildlife other than insects and birds. You have to get up earlier than my teenage daughter was prepared to do! But she, too, was very happy with the tour. Afterwards, we bought a map and checked out some other hiking trails along the Belarusian border. That was also beautiful, but even more so because of all the knowledge we had just gained from Patryck.
5. Bialowieza Forest
6. Gora Grabarka
7. Kruszyniany Mosque
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4.5 based on 172 reviews
There is a Mosque (quite rare in Poland), one of two in Poland and mizar (muslim cementary) - very interesting tourist place.
Reviewed By marekp59 - Gdansk, Poland
OMosques have been in Poland since the Middle Ages, when Polish kings gave land to Tatar troops for brave warring with other kingdoms / states. In those days and still today, people live in harmony despite religious differences. A very cool storyteller Tatar tells about history and the present day. This place cannot be missed!ne of very few mosques in Poland. The
8. Zamoyski Palace Museum
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4.5 based on 149 reviews
9. Tykocin Synagogue
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4.5 based on 139 reviews
Reviewed By davidrE7988AX - Baltimore, United States
My wife and I were in Warsaw and I had read about the restoration of this old synagogue. Not one of the largest in pre-war Poland, but of historical significance. Typical of the free-standing sunken fortrass synagogues of its era. We got a guide in Warsaw to take us. After WW2 synagogue fell into disrepair, and has recently bee3n resored to "like-new" condition. While we were there several Jewish groups came through, one from North Ameraica, one from South America. Tycochin pre-WW2 was 50% Jewish, 50% Catholic. The synagogue was at one end of the town, the church on the other, with the town marketplace in between. We got a thorough tour of the town and the local guides at the synagogue were helpful (being Jewish, we know what we were looking at and reading on the inscriptions). Guides facilitated our photography. Agree that what happened to the community was glossed over. Our Warsaw guide took us to the spot in the forest a few miles outside of town where the Nazi's murdered the community over a two day period. There are memorials there marking the mass graves. On our way we briefly stopped at the Jewish cemetery. Basically, the Nazi's tried to erase hundreds of years of Jewish history in this place. They wiped out the people, sadly. The synagogue and vestiges of the cemetery remain as testiment. If you are interested in Jewish history, and Jewish civilization / culture, worth a visit.
10. The Lublin Open Air Village Museum
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4.5 based on 317 reviews
The Lublin Open Air Village Museum was established in 1970. Set in 60 acres of picturesque land it is one of the largest open air museums in Poland. The area is composed of several parts reflecting particular geographical units of Lublin region. Our Museum preserves the historic images of villages, manors and provincial towns with their regional characteristic features of buildings and settlement layouts. Field crops, gardens and livestock enrich the open air museum exhibition. Customs, rituals and daily work of people living in the past are recreated thanks to the abundance of exhibits. At present, traditional rural architecture of Lublin Upland, Roztocze and Vistula River Region is represented, whereas Podlasie as well as Bug River Region are still under construction. The image of the past is complemented by a provincial town and a manor house accompanied by a park. What you may find particularly appealing about the Museum are the 17th century Roman Catholic church and th
Reviewed By Vino1979 - Paris, France
Great museum far from from city center but close from botanic garden, you can discover here polish way of life through centuries. Natural, campaign, you will see polish house that help to understand why you have so much natural places in poland. Nice to do in couple or with children, you can spend half a day here and eat in nature.
