About a twenty minute drive from the hotel is a huge salt mine that we decided to tour. Here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine.
It was awesome. Each hour (on the hour) they have an English speaking guide. The tour takes about two hours plus another hour if you tour the museum. We had about 40 people in our group (yes, we are a fourth of the group) but it was easy to get separated from each other. Our new kids were always ready to see the next thing on the tour so we had a hard time keeping Karolina and Peter next to us. So many amazing things they carved completely out of salt - statues, chapels, and a huge cathedral. It even had several underground lakes. We skipped the museum but everyone enjoyed our thrilling mine shaft elevator ride back to the top - very small, open air elevator that quickly shot to the top.
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