2 Side trip to Poland (Krakow):
(Tatrzanski National Park, south of Krakow & Tatransky National Park on the Slovakia side of the border - in the High Tatra, a mountain range of moraines, waterfalls, cirques, and glacial tarns, rich in vegetation with dense pine forests.)
Bialowieza forest (bison reserve) - 115 miles east of Warsaw - PICTURES
Bialowieza Primaeval Forest, known as Belaveskaya Pushcha or Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus and Puszcza Bia?owieska in Poland, is an ancient virginal forest straddling the border between Belarus and Poland, located 36 miles north of Brest. It is the only remaining part of the once immense forest spreading across the European Plain. / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bialowieza_Forest

Just south of that: Pieniny National Park (Poland) / Pieninski National Park (Slovakia)
PICTURES / MORE PICTURES

Poland: Kazimierz Dolny - artist's colony
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=Kazimierz+Dolny&btnG=Search

--- far side trip - to the northeast of Poland:
Lithuania: Vilnius ("Prague on the Baltic")
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=Vilnius&btnG=Search

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(On the Slovakia-Poland border: Karkonoski National Park)
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June 25,2005 - July 3,2005 - Polish Jewish Arts Festival
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/partners/amadeus/query.asp?month=7&overview=0&loc_id=135388

Historic, Traditional, Sometimes Magical Poland -
http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/52/Travel_in_Poland.html

http://www.visit.pl/to/guides.php?link_id=629&st=0

http://www.warsaw-life.com/
http://www.wroclawcity.com/index.php?option=content&task=blogcategory&id=85&Itemid=73
Poland Wroclaw Japanese garden - Google Image Search
http://www.albytravel.com/world.htm