Beauty is ourentirePoland
Lesser Poland VoivodeshipTatry and Pieniny MountainsTatry  - highest mountain range in the chain of the Western Carpathians.Tatras on the Polish side are divided into:Western Tatras- the highest peak - StarorobociańskiWierch, 2,176 m above sea level High Tatras- the highest peak is the north-west  top of the Rysy  - 2,499 m above sea-levelThe Tatras are protected by the establishment in their area of the Tatra National ParkPanorama of Tatras from the Long HalPieniny - mountain range in southern Poland and northern Slovakia, that is the highest part of a long belt of limestone rocks (PieninyKlippen Belt).Two gorges of Dunajec make  the Pieniny are split into 3 parts:Pieniny Spiskie -  between of Białka Valley and of gorge of Dunajec  near NiedzicaCentral Pieniny  (Pieninyappropriate) - from Niedzica to the Dunajec Canyonbetweenthe Sromowce Niżne and Szczawnica  (in Polish borders). The highest peak - TrzyKoronySmall Pieniny- reaching to the valley of Poprad
Kościeliska Valley
Kościeliska Valley
Highland Robbers Chapel in the Kościeliska Valley in the Tatra Mountains
Kazalnica -  rock in the Kościeliska Valley
Western Tatrasof Small Meadow Valley
The Smreczyński Pond- Tatra Mountains
Western Tatras - TrzydniowiańskiPeak
A  Rock called Bake in the UpłazHala ( mountain pasture)
The Gąsienicowa mountains pasture
The Stoły mountains pasture
Sheep grazing in a clearing Jamy
Shepherd huts in a clearing Chochołowska
Giewont (1894m n.p.m.) is the most popular, next to Kasprowy, a peak in the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane in the bottom
Tatra mountains - photo NASA
High Tatra Mountains - view from the CzerwoneWierchy
High Tatra Mountains - Rysy
High Tatra Mountains - Kościelec on the west side
Kościelec (2155 m.n.p.m.) -view from the trail
Kościelec - view from the Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy
 Czarny Staw Gąsienicowy  (Black of Gąsienica Pond)
Morskie Oko  (Eye of the Sea)
Morskie Oko - The biggest lake in the whole of the Tatras
Shelterover Morskie Oko
Mnich (Monk) over Morskie Oko
High Tatras - Mnich (2068m above sea-level)lonely crag above the south-western shore of the MorskieOko
Tatra Mountains - Valley of Five Polish Tarns
Valley of Five Polish Ponds - Greater and Front Polish Pond
The view from Goat Peak (KoziWierch) to Valley of Five Polish Tarns
Zamarła Turnia ( deadcrag)
Świnica (2301m) - peak in the High Tatras with two vertices
Zawratowa Turnia (Zawrat Crag)- view from Kościelec
Climbing at Zawrat
Climbing at Zawrat
Zawrat Pass situated at an altitude of 2159 m, separates Zawrat crag since the Little Goat Peak, one of the two boundary points of the route OrlaPerc
Statue of Mary (high 1,22 m.) near the Zawrat pass in the High TatrasValentine Gadowski put this statue at this point in June 1904
Orla perć - one of the toughestand the most dangerous routesin the High Tatras
OrlaPerc - the view from the Skrajny peak
Orla Perć – the descent from the Goat Peak
Orla perć (eagletrail)
At Goat Pass
View of the valley Gąsienicowa
Pieniny Mountains
Pieniny – a gorge of Dunajec
TrzyKorony (Three Crowns)the view from the Red Monastery peak
Three Crownspeak
Three Crownspeak
Pieniny - a gorge of Białka river at Krempachy.
Pieniny - Dunajec rafting
Pieniny - Dunajec rafting
Pieniny - Dunajec rafting
Pieniny Mountains on the east side
the endMusic  - The Karol Stoch Band – Polish highlandermusicIllustrations - downloaded from web sitesA presentationprepared - Anna

Wanderings on Poland (10b)