Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Zakopane, Poland
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5.9 km
543 m
Explore Zakopane in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in ZakopaneSight 1: Jaskinia Juhaska
The Juhaska Cave, formerly known as the Juhaska Cave, is a cave in the Strążyska Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings located in the northern wall of Juhaska Turnia in the massif of the Long Giewont, in the Banie couloir, at a distance of about 100 m in a straight line from the Higher Sucha Pass, at altitudes of 1570 m and 1586 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 23 meters and its denivelation is 16 meters.
Sight 2: Suchy Wierch
Suchy Wierch is a mountain in the Western Tatras in Poland, rising in the ridge separating the Strążyska Valley in the west from the White Valley in the east. In this ridge it is located between the Nizhnia Sucha Pass (1508 m) and the Red Pass (1301 m). On its eastern slopes there are no ridges or perches, while in the western direction from its top there is a horse ridge separating the Deer Gully from the Roe Deer.
Sight 3: Sucha Czubka
Dry Czubka – an outstanding regal peak in the back separating the White Valley from the Strążyska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the upper, southern part of this ridge, between the Wyżna Dry Pass and Nizhnia Dry Pass. On the east side, his slopes fall into the Sucha Valley. On the western side, to the Great Equal in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley is falling from it a forest-rockist Jeleni Grzbiet.
Sight 4: Biała Czubka
Biała Czubka – a hill in the Giewont massif in the Polish Western Tatras. It is located in the White Ridge between the White Pass and the White Pass. The north-western slopes are covered with a forest called Patyki, the eastern slopes are called Kalacki Upłaz. Due to the former pastoral economy, they were heavily depleted and heavily eroded, but now they are also overgrown with forest.
Sight 5: Jaskinia Kalacka
Kalacka Cave is a cave located in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of Kalacka Turnia descending into the Kalatówka clearing, above the Bystra Spring, slightly above the marked tourist trail to the Kondratowa Valley, at an altitude of 1230 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 405 meters, and its denivelation is 19 meters.
Sight 6: Dudnica
Dudnica is a cave in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two close to each other entrance at the foot of Kalacká Turnia at an altitude of 1181 meters above sea level, near the outlet of the Bystra Cave. The length of the cave is 185 meters and the denivelation is 12 meters.
Sight 7: Kalacka Turnia
Kalacka Turnia – a crag rising above the Kalatówki clearing in the Polish Tatra Mountains. It is located at the end of the eastern ridge of Długi Giewont. On Kalacka Kopa this ridge splits into two branches; Kalacka Turnia is located in the orographic right. Its south-western slopes descend to the Bystra Valley, the north-eastern slopes to the Kalacký Trough. The slopes are now completely forested, only the top itself is rocky, similar to the ruins of a castle. For this reason, in the first half of the 19th century, it was called the "Zakopane Castle". It is made of limestone rocks. The limestone substratum causes karst phenomena to occur here. At the south-western foot of Kalacka Turnia there is a large Bystra Spring, and on the slopes there are caves: Mokra Koleba, Frapowana Nyża, Kalacki Tunelik, Dudnica, Kalacka Cave, Bystra Cave, Hole behind the Boulders, Goat Corridor.
Sight 8: Jaskinia Bystrej
The Bystrá Cave is a cave located in the Western Tatras in the Bystra Valley, at the foot of Kalacká Turnia. Together with the Kalacka Cave and the Dudnica Cave, it is part of the drainage system of the Giewont massif.
Sight 9: Mokra Koleba
Wet Koleba - a cave, or actually a shelter, in the Kondratowa Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the southern slope of Kalacka Turnia, at an altitude of 1285 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 11 meters and its denial is 2.5 meters.
Sight 10: Kalacka Kopa
Kalacka Kopa is a mountain in the eastern ridge of Long Giewont in the Polish Tatra Mountains.
Sight 11: Turnia nad Białem
The Crag on the Biała River is a crag in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Western Tatra Mountains in Poland. It is located in the eastern part of this ridge, steeply descending to Kalacka Kopa, between Bramótki and Wyżni Wrótki. The latter pass is located just on the western side of Turnia nad Białem, while a grassy and rocky ridge about 450 m long descends to the Gates.
Sight 12: Juhaska Kopa
Juhaska Kopa is a small bulge in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Western Tatra Mountains in Poland, between Juhaska Przehyba and Vyšní Bramótki. The northern slopes descend by the wall to both the Sucha Valley and the Banie couloir in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley. The southern slopes descend into the Kondratowa Valley.
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