Krakow is the second largest and one of the oldiest cities in Poland. From 1038 to 1569 it was also the capital. Nowadays it is seen by many as the cultural capital of Poland.

If you are an aviation fan, there is a must see, which is the Polish Aviation museum. This museum has some unique aircrafts in the world like the P11. All the others were destroyed by the Germans during the second World War. There is also a unique Herman Gohring collection. Many russian airplanes like mig, tupolev etc can be seen here. The unfortunate thing I believe is that most of the planes are put outside and not well maintained.

After this impressing visit to the air museum, there was another museum we wanted to see as were getting deeper and deeper in the second World War history. It was the former factory of Oskar Schindler. He was an ethnic German industrialist, German spy, and member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of over 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories.

The museum gives you a very good image of Krakow during the second World War. There is a small section about Herr Schindler as well but in my opinion it is more about Krakow itself. Nevertheless it was interesting stop to make.

When we came out of the museum, we saw all of a sudden some race cars flying low by. What a nice coincidence, it was the Gumball 3000 guys who were in town 🙂

We visited some more places like the rynek again, but also the very big and probably most touristic Wawel castle.

Larisa got hungry so we went for some zapikankas 🙂

We knew about some free jazz performance in the evening, so we checked it out. Nice to have some music again in the evening. It was a young jazz quartet, they played very well! The night before we had been to a chopin piano recital, which costed 55 zlotis. I am a great fan of Chopin piano music, but strangely I liked the jazz performance better.

Time for our last night in the mosquito hostel and say goodbye to Krakow. We are riding to Ukraine tomorrow. Exciting to see how fast we can get over the border!