discover ZAKOPANE with ALTIUS TRAVEL AGENCY

ROUTE 1: a must on a sunny day (aprox. 2-3 hrs.):
START: Krupówki
- taking the funicular up the Gubałówka hill - walk along the top rigde (2-3 km)
- taking the chair lift down the Polana Szymoszkowa or Butorowy Wierch
- back to the town along the Powstańców Śląskich street
- then along Kościeliska street - visiting the Zakopane Style Museum in Villa Koliba
- visiting the oldest church (on the picture above) in Zakopane and the cemetary (on the picture on the left)
- FINISH: Krupówki.

ROUTE 2: "upper" Zakopane (aprox. 3 hrs.)
START: Krupówki - Piłsudskiego street
- at the crossroads with Tetmajera street - Kornel Makuszyński's Museum
with a pretty figure of the polish most famous goat Koziolek Matolek (on the picture)
- ski jumping hill Wielka Krokiew (possibility of going up to the top with a lift and admiring the views over the town)
- walking along the Ścieżka Pod Reglami path to the entry of the Białego Valley
- then along Grunwaldzka street (on the right in the Town Park Culture Center Jutrzenka with an interesting exhibition of the children's works of art - mainly traditional local techniques of glass painting, available for sale)
- further Orkana and Kasprusie streets with Karol Szymanowski's museum at Villa Atma
- Kościeliska street- FINISH: Krupówki.

ROUTE 3: following Stanislaw Witkiewicz (aprox. 4-5hrs.)
(hiking shoes recommended)
START: Krupówki - Zamoyskiego st.- Witkiewicza st.- Bulwary Słowackiego st.
- climbing up the Nosal (1.206m) - hiking down to Olczyska Valley with water springs
- Jaszczurówka - a 1907 chapel designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz (on the picture)
- Balzera st. - Droga na Koziniec (Willa pod Jedlami/ Pod Jedlami Villa, a house designed by St. Witkiewicz)
- Droga na Antałówkę - Antalowka (lovely view on High Tatras)
- follow the yellow marked tracks near the Panorama pension
- Jagiellonska street - Witkiewicza street (cafe Samanta) - FINISH: Krupówki

ROUTE 4: Two biggest valleys of the Western Tatras (aprox. 4/6 hrs.)
START: bus station at Kościuszki street - taking the bus to Kiry in Kościelisko
- Kościeliska Valley (on the picture) with the Mroźna Cave and Smreczyński lake
- shelter in Ornak - back the same way through the Kościeliska or
- Iwaniacka Pass - Chochołowska Valley
- Ścieżka Pod Reglami path - Kiry
- taking the bus back to Zakopane

ROUTE 5: Strążyska Valley and Kalatówki (aprox. 4-5 hrs)
START: Krupówki - Strążyska st.
- Strążyska Valley (very pretty one)
- Ścieżka nad Reglami path - Kalatówki Valley (on the picture)
- Mountain Hotel Kalatówki (nice restaurant)
- Kuźnice - Przewodników Tatrzańskich st. -
Chałubińskiego st. - Zamoyskiego st.
FINISH: Krupówki

ROUTE 6: cable car to Kasprowy Wierch (aprox 2/4 hrs.)
START: Krupówki - walk up to Kuznice (3km) through Zamoyskiego st.
- Chałubińskiego st. (Tatra National Park Museum) - Przewodników Tatrzańskich st
- cable car ride to Kasprowy Wierch (cable car tickets booking)
- back the same way or by foot through the - Hala Gąsienicowa (Murowaniec mountain hostel with restaurant)
- Jaworzynka - bust transfer from Kuznice to the bus station.

ROUTE 7: Morskie Oko - the most popular destination (aprox. 5/6 hrs)
START: bus station at Kościuszki st. - taking the bus to Palenica Białczańska
- walk up to Morskie Oko lake (8km on the traumac road)
- walk around the lake - (optional: walk up to the next lake Czarny Staw nad Morskim Okiem +1 hour)
- back the same way (horse cart: 35/40 zł up, 15/20 zł down - we advise to walk up and then go down on the cart
- in winter time horse sleighs 60 zł up and 40 zł down).