Top 7 Hidden Gems Things to do in Podlaskie Province, Eastern Poland

July 4, 2021 Velvet Champine

Discover the best top things to do in Podlaskie Province, Poland including Wild Poland Wildlife Tours, Bialowieza National Park Tours, Bialowieza Forest, Gora Grabarka, Kruszyniany Mosque, Tykocin Synagogue, Skansen w Bialowiezy.
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1. Wild Poland Wildlife Tours

Excellent
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5.0 based on 92 reviews

Wild Poland Wildlife Tours

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.

2. Bialowieza National Park Tours

Bialowieza Poland +48 692 807 216 [email protected] http://www.przewodnicy.bialowieza.pl
Excellent
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4.5 based on 139 reviews

Bialowieza National Park Tours

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.

3. Bialowieza Forest

Bialowieza Poland http://bpn.com.pl/index.php?lang=en
Excellent
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4.5 based on 275 reviews

Bialowieza Forest

4. Gora Grabarka

Nurzec Stacja 17-330 Poland +48 85 655 00 10 http://www.grabarka.pl/
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4.5 based on 74 reviews

Gora Grabarka

One of the most visited places in Poland. A pilgrimage site for the Orthodox Church and great tourist attraction of East Poland

5. Kruszyniany Mosque

Kruszyniany, Krynki 16-120 Poland +48 502 543 871 http://www.kruszyniany.com.pl
Excellent
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4.5 based on 172 reviews

Kruszyniany Mosque

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

6. Tykocin Synagogue

ul. Kozia 2, Tykocin 16-080 Poland +48 85 718 16 13 http://tykocin.podlaskie.pl/dzial/44/47/i,29.html
Excellent
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4.5 based on 139 reviews

Tykocin Synagogue

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.

7. Skansen w Bialowiezy

ul. Zastawa 66b, Bialowieza 17-230 Poland +48 660 667 790 [email protected]
Excellent
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4.0 based on 57 reviews

Skansen w Bialowiezy

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