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Programme of the Rally

Day 1
- accommodation in the guest house, supper
- Walk - getting familiar with the vicinity

Day 2
- accommodation in the guest house, supper
- Walk - getting familiar with the vicinity

Day 3
- Rally from Rybaki to Wdzydze Kiszewskie (18 km)
- Ship cruise of the Wdzydze lake

Day 4
- Rally from Wdzydze Kiszewskie to Wojtal (21 km)
- Tour of the "Stone Rings" landscape reserve which is the greatest archeological and natural attraction of the Tucholskie Woods. The reserve comprises a burial ground dating from 1st to 4th century with various burial forms (barrows, stone rings and flat graves). It is the place to which research workers assign both "calendar" and sacral meaning.
- Canoeing on the Wdzydze Lake (rest on the beach, you may rent water bikes or windsurf - extra paid)
- Camp-fire and learning about the culture and tradition of the Kaszuby region

Day 5
- Rally from Czarna Woda to Osowo (20 km)
- Visiting the "Witry" dendrological garden - an experimental object of the State Forests, one of the greatest and most interesting gardens in Poland. It comprises the dendrological garden and exotics testing and experimental areas and an English-style park. The object was set up in the years 1871-1901 by Adam Puttrich, a Prussian forest inspector. Exotic trees from the northern hemisphere: from Europe, North America and Asia, as well as trees of domestic origin grow in this garden. In 1970 experiments were started on cultivating the sequoia, a mammoth tree.

Day 6
- Rally from Mlynki to Tlen (23 km)
- Seeing the "Czapliniec" heron reserve and a mini zoo in Kalebnica housing storks, fallow deer, stags and boars

Day 7
- Rally from Szlaga to Tleń (25 km)
- Tour of the natural reserve called "Lop-sided Wheel in the Wda Loop"
- Seeing beaver lodges
- In Tuchola, visiting the Museum of the Tucholskie Woods which are the second largest forest area in Poland. The Tucholskie Woods are also one of the last regions in Poland with pure environment, covered by pine-tree forests mainly, including the relics of ancient vegetation, fortunately preserved in the form of natural reserves, real pearls of landscape and nature. This is a land of hundreds of enchanting lakes, most of them being tunnel-valley lakes. Fauna is represented by such big mammals (unfortunately, less and less frequently existing) as elks and fallow deer, stags, roe-deer and boars.

Day 8
- Sightseeing of the castle of Teutonic Knight in Malbork, one of the greatest fortresses of medieval Europe and an example of medieval defensive architecture. In December 1997 the castle was entered on the UNESCO list of the world cultural heritage. Destroyed, reconstructed, rebuilt during those several ages it has been preserved t
o the present times and is a great attraction in this part of Europe. A trip to the Malbork stronghold is a wonderful and unique history lesson.
- Sightseeing the cloister complex in Pelplin - the greatest but the cathedral in Oliwa and the Our Lady basilica in Gdansk, sacral object in Poland, built about 1280 A.D. as a Cysterian monastic church. The temple, one of the oldest monuments of European bricklaying art, free from any influences of the local Teutonic Knight building, is the first of such type in eastern Europe. It has a grandiose lierne vault and beautiful portals, including the northern one with architectural stone sculpture, that are unique in the country. The basilica is one of the churches in Poland that are most furnished with pieces of art, including Gothic stalls of the European class and the largest in Poland late-Renaissance main altar with the famous painting by Herman Han (1574-1628), presenting the coronation of Our Lady.

Day 9
- A trip to Sopot - visiting the jetty in and the city of Sopot
- Sightseeing Gdańsk
- Dinner in a quiet and cosy restaurant

Day 10
- Breakfast and good-bye with guide
- Departure