wanderings on poland (10b)

Beauty is our entire Poland

Tatry and Pieniny Mountains

Panorama of Tatras from the Long Hal

Pieniny - mountain range in southern Poland and northern Slovakia, that is the highest part of a long belt of limestone rocks (Pieniny Klippen Belt).Two gorges of Dunajec make the Pieniny are split into 3 parts:Pieniny Spiskie - between of Białka Valley and of gorge of Dunajec near NiedzicaCentral Pieniny (Pieniny appropriate) - from Niedzica to the Dunajec Canyon between the Sromowce Niżne and Szczawnica (in Polish borders). The highest peak - Trzy Korony Small Pieniny - reaching to the valley of Poprad

Tatry - highest mountain range in the chain of the Western Carpathians.Tatras on the Polish side are divided into:Western Tatras - the highest peak - Starorobociański Wierch, 2,176 m above sea level High Tatras - the highest peak is the north-west top of the Rysy - 2,499 m above sea-levelThe Tatras are protected by the establishment in their area of the Tatra National Park

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Kościeliska Valley

Kościeliska Valley

Highland Robbers Chapel in the Kościeliska Valley in the Tatra Mountains

Kazalnica - rock in the Kościeliska Valley

Western Tatrasof Small Meadow Valley

The Smreczyński Pond- Tatra Mountains

Western Tatras - Trzydniowiański Peak

A Rock called Bake in the Upłaz Hala ( mountain pasture)

The Gąsienicowa mountains pasture

The Stoły mountains pasture

Sheep grazing in a clearing Jamy

Shepherd huts in a clearing Chochołowska

Giewont (1894m n.p.m.) is the most popular, next to Kasprowy, a peak in the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane in the bottom

Tatra mountains - photo NASA

High Tatra Mountains - view from the Czerwone Wierchy

High Tatra Mountains - Rysy

High Tatra Mountains - Kościelec on the west side

Kościelec (2155 m.n.p.m.) - view from the trail

Kościelec - view from the Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy

Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy (Black of Gąsienica Pond)

Morskie Oko (Eye of the Sea)

Morskie Oko - The biggest lake in the whole of the Tatras

Shelter over Morskie Oko

Mnich (Monk) over Morskie Oko

High Tatras - Mnich (2068m above sea-level)lonely crag above the south-western shore of the Morskie Oko

Tatra Mountains - Valley of Five Polish Tarns

Valley of Five Polish Ponds - Greater and Front Polish Pond

The view from Goat Peak (Kozi Wierch) to Valley of Five Polish Tarns

Zamarła Turnia ( dead crag)

Świnica (2301m) - peak in the High Tatras with two vertices

Zawratowa Turnia (Zawrat Crag)- view from Kościelec

Climbing at Zawrat

Climbing at Zawrat

Zawrat Pass situated at an altitude of 2159 m, separates Zawrat crag since the Little Goat Peak, one of the two boundary points of the route Orla Perc

Statue of Mary (high 1,22 m.) near the Zawrat pass in the High TatrasValentine Gadowski put this statue at this point in June 1904

Orla perć - one of the toughestand the most dangerous routes

in the High Tatras

Orla Perc - the view from the Skrajny peak

Orla Perć – the descent from the Goat Peak

Orla perć (eagle trail)

At Goat Pass

View of the valley Gąsienicowa

Pieniny Mountains

Pieniny – a gorge of Dunajec

Trzy Korony (Three Crowns) the view from the Red Monastery peak

Three Crowns peak

Three Crowns peak

Pieniny - a gorge of Białka river at Krempachy.

Pieniny - Dunajec rafting

Pieniny - Dunajec rafting

Pieniny - Dunajec rafting

Pieniny Mountains on the east side

Music - The Karol Stoch Band – Polish highlander musicIllustrations - downloaded from web sitesA presentation prepared - Anna

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