Departure from Krakow is from an agreed meeting point or directly from your hotel, depending on the arrangement.
On arrival, an English-speaking guide will lead you through the main camp (Auschwitz I). The tour begins at the gate with the cynical inscription “Arbeit macht frei”. To make the explanations easier to understand, each participant is equipped with a group tour guide system. This is an audio radio system in which each listener receives a small receiver and headphones to which the tour is transmitted via microphone. This enables an undisturbed guided tour even in confined spaces.
The tour program includes prisoner blocks with permanent exhibitions documenting the process of extermination in the concentration camp as well as the “Wall of Death” and Crematorium I with gas chamber.
The guided tour of the main camp lasts approx. 2 hours. Afterwards, a shuttle bus will take you to the Birkenau camp (Auschwitz II), the site of systematic extermination.
The “process” of selection is explained to you at the railroad ramp where the transports of deportees arrived. The ruins of gas chambers II and III with the crematoria, ponds with the ashes of hundreds of thousands of people and prisoners’ barracks are also part of the tour of the Birkenau camp, which lasts approx. 1.5 hours.