One week in The Bialowieza Forest /7 days/

We offer to spend one week in the Bialowieza Forest in an interesting way. We recommend choosing an accommodation place that you can find on our website or telling us about your expectations and our travel agency will find a proper property. Here is the general programme of the stay that enables to introduce the advantages of The Bialowieza Forest. The order of realization of following tourist points can be changed. The programme will be modified to your needs.

One week in the Northern part of the Bialowieza Forest

1^st day

Arrival at your accomodation place, checking in, bike rental, visitng neighbourhood villages:

Park in Gruszki /sundial, natural clock, stone circles, a hollow in a tree where bees live, the European Union alley, educational boards, exhibition of items connected with nature in the Forrestry Commission
Jewish cemetery in Narewka
St. John Orthodox Church in Narewka

Dinner

2^nd day

Breakfast. Bicycle trip to Hajnowka or transport of people and bicycles to this city. Realization of the following

programme:

a narrow-gauge train ride from Hajnowka to Topilo
visiting Topilo (forest ponds, a small open-air museum of a narrow-gauge train, forest chapel)
bicycle tour from Topilo to Bialowieza through the Bialowieza Forest
a touring trip around Bialowieza Glade ( wooden architecture of Bialowieza, St. Teresa Church, Dyrekcyjny Park, the Narewka Valley, the Tsar`s railway station)

Lunch in Bialowieza

the Palace Park – organised according to the Tsar`s plan in an English style
the Museum of Nature and Forest – modern multimedia presentation of fauna and flora of the

Bialowieza Forest

entrance to the observation tower and temporary exposition in the Museum of Nature
St. Nikolaus Orthodox Church with porcelain iconostasis
return trip to Janowo on the Narewkowska Road

Barbecue at the bonfire place

3^rd day

Breakfast. Bicycle tour to many places:

to Bondary by the artificial lake through Narewka and Lewkowo Stare
to the dam and the beach in Bondary
to the beach in Stary Dwor (there is a possibility of renting a canoe and ordering a ship cruise on the lake)
to Siemianowka (St. Georg Orthodox Church)
visit in “Bobrowa Zagroda” in Siemianówka, traditional, regional meal
observation tower in Maruszka
return trip through educational path PTOP through Gruszki to Janowo

Arrival at the accomodation place. Dinner.

4^th day

Breakfast. Bicycle tour which includes visiting these places:

observation tower in Kosy Most, panorama of the Narewka River Valley, beavers lodges, bisons feeding place
the wildest fragments of the Bialowieza Forest in Stricly Protected Area “Hwozna” /the Wolves Trail, the Capercaillie Reserve/
Masiewo- wooden architecture, narrow-gauge open-air museum /there is a possibility of riding on horseback/
St. Eustace chapel carved in oak tree
old oaks stands in “Dworny Gradek”
Park in Gruszki

Dinner

5^th day

Breakfast, dry provision for a trip. Bicycle tour:

on the Narewkowska road to the Old Bialowieza
the Royal Oaks and Lithuanian Princes Trail– the trail consists of a several-hundred-year old oaks named after Polish kings hunting in the Bialowieza Forest
The European Bison Show Reserve / tarpans, bisons, zubrons-hybrid of a bison and domestic cattle, wolves, deer and boars/
a picturesque corner in the Białowieza Forest called Zwierzyniec /bison`s monument, forester`s lodge/

Lunch in Siolo Budy, visiting of an open-air etnographic museum

return trip through the Bialowieza Forest to Swinoroje
educational path “Under the Oaks” in Swinoroje

Return trip to Janowo, dinner

6^th day

Breakfast, realization of the following programme:

anoeing on the Narewka River from Narewka to Lewkowo Stare
bicycle trip from Lewkowo Stare to the Waliczowka Valley, beavers lodges, observation of woodpeckers
return trip through the picturesque Narewka Valley to Janowo

Dinner

7^th day

Breakfast, checking out, departure to Bialowieza

walking tour with a tour guide to the Strict Reserve-visiting the primeval forest where there has been no human intervention for hundred of years

Dinner in Bialowieza, departure

Services included: 6 nights in the guest house, 6 breakfasts, 4 dinners, 2 lunches in Bialowieza, one lunch in the “Osoczniki” Inn in Budy, barbecue, dinner, traditional meal in Siemianowka, bike rental, canoe rental, transport of bicycles and canoes to Lewkowo, a tour guide in the Strict Reserve

The order and the range of services may be modified due to tourists` expectations.