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Zakopane, Mountain Resort in Polish Tatras
Why Zakopane?
Zakopane Highlights:
· Zakopane Architecture
The highland town of Zakopane has long been celebrated for its pointy-gabled, timber-built houses, a rustic style which is still practized in local building
· Hiking in the Tatras
Offering anything from easy-going valley-bottom strolls to calf-straining high-mountain scrambles, the Tatra range provides hikers with the most varied and beautiful terrain in the country
· Morskie Oko
A serene high-altitude lake surrounded by lofty peaks, the Morskie Oko ("Eye of the Sea") is one of the most popular targets fro visitors to the Tatra Mountains
· Niedzieca Castle
This medieval cluster of towers and bastions rears dramatically above the calm waters of the Czorstyn Reservoir
· Rafting on the Dunajec Gorge
Rafting down this twisting section of the River Dunajec, squeezed by cliffs, is one of Poland's classic journeys