Staying healthy in underground/salt mine

Health and wealth are the two commonly wishes for the rich and the famous (and of course, that includes you too).

I visited Wieliczka Salt Mine in Kraków/Poland and found it fascinating.

Other than the "Grand" wall painting of last super, "Grand" hall that's larger than a stadium, etc, what on earth that the artist was thinking when they crafted the pathment/walkway?

You see. The entire surrounding/mine is made of salt. including the floor. The artist bothers to craft patterns of bricks and tiles on the floor as decoration. Instead of walking on marbles or tiles, you're walking on bricks like pattern crafted out from salt.

Time consuming and painfully stupid, isn't it?


P.S. I was told that these people who lives in the salt mine seldom fall sicks.... may be that's why they have all the health and time to do things that does not make sense to normal people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine

Quote:Time consuming and painfully stupid, isn't it?

What made you want to go there? Tourism right? other than a discontinued salt mine what other attractions do they have that can attract planeloads of visitors or to provide a jobs for people living there? there's nothing else.

In northern china temperatures in Harbin can fall to below -50 during winter nobody in the right sane will want to go there but you know what they have one of the biggest ice show on earth during the annual ice festival. Everything is build on ice and rebuilt every year.

is all about finding a way and turning what was otherwise adversity into opportunity

source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01...and_s.html

Yes. This grand hall is crafted from the salt.
It's 100m underground.

Look carefully at the floor, it's not marble, it's actually salt crafted to look like floor tiles. And, yes, its a UNESCO site.

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If you look closer at the left hand side of the wall, you will see the following salt craved painting, which is my favorite:
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Plus, a local favorite: Salted Pope John Paul II's status.
Yesterday, when I arrived Krakow, the town was decorated with yellow flags and was paying tributes to John. Later, while talking to the local, I found out that Krakow was the spiritual home for John. Along the garden, there was a huge exhibition of John's photo. (Incidentally, that's how I know that John goes to Dolomite for holiday every summer and this gives me the idea of visiting Dolomite in my subsequent trip).
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where is this place

"UNESCO site" is another marketing tool, definite to bring in tourist!

Hope that botanic gdn will not start charging once it gets it's UNESCO label!! :O

(29-04-2013, 01:59 PM)brattzz Wrote: "UNESCO site" is another marketing tool, definite to bring in tourist!

Hope that botanic gdn will not start charging once it gets it's UNESCO label!! :O

Over the government's dead body.
I can forsee STB even coming out with family value packs coupling Botanical Garden with Gardens by the Bay.

sigh... i really enjoyed botanic garden! more than the billion $ garden by the bay...

(22-10-2012, 07:52 AM)chialc Wrote: P.S. I was told that these people who lives in the salt mine seldom fall sicks.... may be that's why they have all the health and time to do things that does not make sense to normal people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine

I was there last year too and it is indeed worth a visit. The reason they seldom fall sick is because bacteria cannot grow in this kind of salty environment...anyway that was what I was told and I think it make sense as we use salt to preserve food.

Jacmar, you were in Krakow Poland last year?
Did you follow a tour group or on your own?

Not many asian visits Krakow.
I remember vividly, I was standing on the old town square, taking in all the positive energy from the surrounding.

Then, I saw a group/line of school students about 10 years old, 2-by-2 holding hands. One of the mischievous and playful boy, break off from the rank and walk fast towards me.
He throw me a good stares and smile before fleeting back to his queue.
All his classmate spontaneous laugh out loud and girls giggled.

Lovely.

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I was there in nov on a group tour. I did not spend much time on Krakow town itself, just a city tour. We then moved on to visit auchwitz camp. a sad and depressing site on a lesson of humanity.
sorry don't know how to copy and paste pixs on this forum.