Rabka-Zdrój
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Get in
By air
- The nearest major airport is Balice Airport (KRK) in Krakow. The drive to the airport from Rabka takes just over the hour by car.
By rail
- Train connect Rabka with many near towns as well as Krakow. However, the train is very slow and it is much faster to use a bus or taxi.
By car
See
- Open-air Railway Museum at Chabówka which is 2 km outside Rabka. This features a superb collection of steam trains, some of which have appeared in old films.
- Władysław Orkan Museum - The museum offers a unique look into Rabka's past through artefacts, tools and equipment used in everyday life. Housed in a historical 17th-century larch-wood church, includes one of the largest collections of folk sculpture and paintings on glass.
- The world's only Order of the Smile Museum (dedicated to a unique order that children award to adults).
Do
- Rabcio Puppet Theater has performances of traditional Polish puppetry for children.
- Gorce National Park - trails from the Central Park Zdrojowy (Health Park) lead up to Maciejowa hill and the national park. There are tourist shelters which offer overnight bunks and food for walkers en-route.
Ski, skate, snowboard, paraglide, horseback ride, quadbike ride, hike and climb. Rabka offers a sports stadium, tennis courts, amusement park, traffic town with bicycle rentals, skating rink, toboggan-run and circular woodland walk plus way-marked trails over the local hills. Rabka Zdrój is a spa town with health-enhancing waters to sample. Buy the bottled waters in the coffee shop in the park and walk around the spa water diffuser to inhale the waters as a fine mist. There are treatment centres for massage and body treatments. Rabka-Zdrój has a reputed micro-climate supposedly beneficial for asthmatics although coal is burned locally.
tourist routes: to Mt. Grzebień (678 m), Mt. Maciejowa (837 m), Stare Wierchy, Krzywoń and Bania hills.
Drink
Mulled wine and beer, śliwowica łącka - (read: ) strong (70% alcohol) plum brandy
Sleep
Hostels, hotels, lodging houses, holiday homes, cottages and rooms for hire.