Dear Visitors, my name is Barbara, I live in Zakopane and since 2001 I manage, with the help of my family, small travel agency Altius. In 2003 we have created the website www.discoverzakopane.com. I hope you will find here everything you need to plan your stay in Zakopane.
Recently added on discoverzakopane.com: winter pictures from Kasprowy Wierch

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02 - 04 February 2012 Zakopane : BMW SNOW POLO in Zakopane

02 - 04 February 2012 Zakopane : BMW SNOW POLO in Zakopane

2.02. THURSDAY
• 12.00 The official warm-up

3.02. FRIDAY
• 13.00 - 16.00 Qualification Matches
• 20.00 Players Party (by invitation)

4.02. SATURDAY
• 12.00 - 15.00 semi-final matches

5.02. SUNDAY
• 11.30 Opening Parade - Krupówki street
• 12.00 - 15.00 Final Matches
• 15.00 Decoration , End of tournament

To encourage those who haven't been to Zakopane yet, we give the following reasons for visiting our town:

• It is only a two-hour journey by coach/ minibus / taxi from the Cracow centre or Cracow Balice airport.
  Private transfers from Balice airport or Krakow centre can be easily ordered here: private transfers to Zakopane
• Zakopane can boast a highly developed tourist accommodation, including luxury hotels, highland-style cottages, luxury suites, family boarding houses and cheap private lodgings, opened all year round.
  The facilities have very good standard and affordable prices.
  
• Zakopane is an ideal place to practice skiing - there are several ski slopes for beginners in the town centre with ski schools and ski rentals and famous Kasprowy Wierch - a paradise for advanced skiers and snowboarders
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• The town offers many various attractions. In the winter, apart from skiing and snowboarding, the most popular are torchlight sleigh rides, snow scooter rides, dog sledding, ice skating and cross-country skiing. Summer attractions include mountain hiking, quad biking, mountain bike trips, rafting, horse riding and one-day coach trips to many delightful places.
  
• There are 275 km of marked tourist trails located in the Tatra National Park (the park was established in 1954 and covers an area of 21,197 hectares), with various degrees of difficulty from very easy to extremely difficult ones, fitted with safety equipment, such as chains, iron steps or rope ladders. The various colors, the trails are marked with, don't indicate the degree of difficulty, but they help to identify the individual route in the open area. A ticket to the Tatra National Park costs just one Euro.
  
• There are many various restaurants (including local inns where in the evening you can enjoy highland folk bands), bars, pubs as well as several clubs and discos.
  

The website www.discoverzakopane.com has assisted foreign tourists in organising their stay in Zakopane