So, the salt mines outside of Kraków might be my new favorite place, and you’re about to see why…

The Wieliczka Salt Mines are an underground salty Disneyland (I’m assuming, I’ve never been to Disney before).

These mines have been open since the 13th century, and only 2% of the massive tunnels are available to tourists. This 2% is a veritable theme park and walk through of the history of the mine, complete with creepy mannequins acting out olden-day mining techniques.

See the man cranking the brine wheel? Yep he moves and everything. This place is nuts.

Miners spent so much time down here that they carved chapels out of salt. SALT. Complete with wooden and salt crystal chandeliers.

There’s Pope John Paul II again. Carved out of rock salt. No biggie.

Recognize this? Yep. The Last Supper. But extra salty. On account it’s a ROCK SALT CARVING.

Honestly I expected a random NPC to come up to me and announce that I had to retrieve something from the lowest level of this dungeon.

And all of this, these sculptures, chapels, and salty walls (which I definitely licked) were underneath this beautiful town:

I would have moved 160 meters below ground to the Wieliczka Salt Mines, but we had to get out of Kraków and head to Prague.

Last extremely delicious and cheap meals were had…

I noticed this random head statue for the first time even though I walked past it at least 5 times…

And then we got on an overnight train (my first!) to Prague.

I’d like to say I took to sleeping on the top of three bunks like a champion while we hurtled through space at 300 km/hr, but I absolutely woke up every hour or so because I thought I was about to fall out of bed and was instinctively bracing myself. Ah, well, we can’t be perfectly suited to all types of traveling.