Top 10 Poland Natural Views

1. Tatry mountains

Most of the area of the High Tatras, extending between the West High Tatras and Belianske located on the side of Slovakia. To the Tatra National Park belongs small (less than 100 square kilometers), but extremely picturesque fragment. Dominated by the truly alpine scenery - jagged peaks, steep rock walls and beautiful Tatra ponds are a result of glaciers.

2. Bieszczady mountains

Low mountains lying between Poland and Ukraine is famous for its charm. For years, attracted artists and people seeking peace and solitude. That's where the day's hiking we do not meet anyone.

In Bieszczady there are plants and animals not found in other parts of Poland, and especially those who like the heat, for example, Europe's largest snake Aesculapius. Well-preserved original beech forests are a paradise for animals. They live in them, among others, bison, deer, bears, wolves, lynxes, wild cats, and since 2007 the Polish ponies.

3. Black Hańcza River

     It is a river in Poland and Belarus, a left tributary of the Neman River with a length of 142 km. It flows through a very interesting area, often with unique natural beauty, geological, historical and ethnographic values.

      There are many different canoe routes. Along the Black Hańcza is a lot of camping sites and tent sites. One of the attractions of trailing is sale by villagers delicious, local food products.

4. Ojcowski National Park

Ojców National Park, located just near Cracow, the smallest of all Polish national parks, but it hides a lot of geological, natural and cultural attractions. He admires the beautiful rock formations, caves, old buildings and castles.

Popular are canyons with steep walls and a group of island mountains - delight tourists from the nineteenth century. The most spectacular is the Pradnik Valley. We can find tens of meters high rocks with fancy shapes and lot of caves.

5. The Hel Sandbar

When tourist portal The World Geography has prepared a summary of the most incredible sandbar in the world. Among them are the place attractive to tourists - both filled with holiday resorts, as well as those protected because of the natural values. In the forefront were Polish Hel Sandbar. 

The Hel Sandbar is very unusual, because it does not create parallel to the shore, and bent into the shape of a scythe, it falls far into the sea. Its length is 35 km, width of 300 m at the base by 100 m at its narrowest point, up to approx. 3 km to the promontory. Even 300 years at the spit was a string of islands which joined together by sand.

6. The Cave Raj

The cave "Raj" is one of the most famous tourist attractions of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains and one of the most beautiful karst caves in Poland. 

Delights and variety of forms calcite crusts. There are clusters of stalactites here for globally unique density. The cave was considered inanimate nature reserve and archaeological site. The corridors of the cave were produced in the Middle Devonian limestone, which approx. 360 million years ago formed at the bottom of a shallow sea.

Since 1972 it was made available for tourism only with a guide.

7.  Giant Mountains

Giant Mountains belong to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The highest and the best-known band Sudetenland. Thanks to a very well-developed tourist infrastructure (network of hiking trails, mountain huts, ski equipment) are centuries target mountain hikers and skiers.

Their undoubted beauty, wealth of natural curiosities, stunning panoramas and unique atmosphere attracts artists and people sensitive to the natural beauty of the surroundings. The unique fauna and flora attracts Giant naturalists and researchers nature.

8. Bialowieża forest

Forest complex located in the Polish and Belarus, distinguished by large natural values ​​and history. In the Bialowieza Forest survived the last fragments of the original forest character. Here lives the largest population of free bison in the world.

Since 2010, Bialowieza Forest belongs to the list of Important Bird Areas IBA conducted by BirdLife International and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

9. Słowiński National Park

Park was created in 1967 to protect the greatest natural treasure of the region, which are coastal lakes and dunes recognized by UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve. The place is famous mainly for its shifting sand dunes, which reach a height of several tens of meters and can move up to 10 m during the year, sweeping everything in its path. Unusual impressive stumps of dead trees sticking out from under mountains of white sand. Impressive dunes occur primarily on the sandbars, which separated from the Baltic Sea past coves, creating, among others, Gardno Lake and Łebsko, besides occupying a greater part of the park.

10. Pieniny mountains

Pieniny, especially their middle part, are one of the most attractive tourist regions in Poland. In terms of the number of tourists in Poland they occupy second place behind the Tatra Mountains.

The high popularity of the tourist, Pienin choose natural beauty, good accessibility and a well-organized accommodation and tourist infrastructure. In addition, their attractiveness affect the occurrence of acidic, carbonated mineral waters called szczawami.

Tourist attraction on a European scale is rafting on the Dunajec. In parallel (on the Slovak side of the river) runs a foot trail-bike called the Pieniny Way. Interesting are also the ruins of the castle in Czorsztyn and Gothic-Renaissance castle in Niedzica, and (in areas adjacent to the Pieniny) wooden churches in Grywałd, Debno Podhalańskie, churches Krempachy and Frydman.