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Around Zakopane
Around Zakopane
Around Zakopane
Around Zakopane
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A common sight in Zakopane (as in Krakow): racks of Palestinian kaffiyeh look-alikes for sale on the street.
Hard to claim they're trendy fashion accessories that innocently just happen to coincidentally look like the Palestinian symbol of intifada and Jew-hatred, when the things are labeled "arafatki".
Blessed Are the Fashionistas
Around Zakopane
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Around Zakopane
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Around Zakopane
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Around Zakopane
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Hostel
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Inside our room in the Hostel Stara Polana. This was the first hostel I had ever stayed in, and it turned out okay. I had expected a skanky dorm, more like a crowded homeless shelter than a motel.
Banquet Room
Salt Madonna
Salt Crystal Chandelier
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The tour guide recommended taking a picture with the camera on the floor, pointing up, from under the chandelier. So I did. And it worked.
Last Supper
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An adaptation of da Vinci's painting, carved into the solid rock salt walls of the ballroom.
Salt Crystal Madonna
Salt Statue
The Ballroom
Dwarf
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It was said that J.R.R. Tolkien once visited the mine, in the 1910s, and used it as the inspiration for the Mines of Moria in "Lord of the Rings". I don't know if this is true, but it's not hard to believe, since I had that suspicion long before the guide ever mentioned it.
