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Szklarska Poręba
Kamieńczyk Waterfall (ka-MYEN-chik) in Szklarska Poręba is the highest waterfall in the Polish Sudetes. The Kamieńczyk stream drops 27 m in three cascades into a narrow granite gorge. Visitors walk down on steel platforms, wearing a helmet…
Nature
Szklarska Poręba
On top of a granite rock group in the forest above Szklarska Poręba lies a boulder about 4 metres across that rests on just two points. That is why it can be gently set rocking – hence the name Chybotek, roughly "the wobbler". The rock has…
Amusement parks
Szklarska Poręba
Dinopark in Szklarska Poręba (pronounced roughly "SHKLAR-skah po-REM-bah") is a forest theme park in Poland's Karkonosze (Giant) Mountains, where a woodland trail leads past life-size dinosaur models set among spruce trees and boulders. Al…
Museums
Szklarska Poręba
The Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann House in Szklarska Poręba (SHKLAR-ska po-REM-ba) is a museum in the former home of two German writers, the Hauptmann brothers. Around 1900 it was the heart of an artists' colony in what was then Schreiberhau.…
Museums
Szklarska Poręba
In front of the wooden villa on Kilińskiego Street lie petrified tree trunks from the Carboniferous period, and inside you will find a piece of the Gibeon meteorite and stromatolites around 570 million years old. The Mineralogical Museum i…
Mountains & peaks
Szklarska Poręba
Szrenica (pronounced shreh-NEE-tsa, 1,362 m) is the rounded granite summit that towers over the resort town of Szklarska Poręba in Poland's Karkonosze, or Giant Mountains. It is one of the easiest high viewpoints in the range to reach: a t…
Ski resorts
Szklarska Poręba
The ski lifts in Szklarska Poręba (SHKLAR-ska po-REM-ba) belong to Szrenica Ski Arena, the largest ski area on the Polish side of the Karkonosze, or Giant Mountains. It spreads across the northern slopes of Szrenica peak, with three chairl…
Viewpoints
Szklarska Poręba
On regional road 358 between Szklarska Poręba and Świeradów-Zdrój, the road at 775 m above sea level doubles back almost 180 degrees over about 440 m. Death Bend has an ominous name, but today people come here mainly for the view: from bel…