Wieliczka Off The Beaten Path

  5-25 MILLION YEARS OLD CONE
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      5-25 MILLION YEARS OLD CONE
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  • CORAL  IN  WIELICZKA  SALT  MINE
      CORAL IN WIELICZKA SALT MINE
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  • PART OF THE OLD SALT-WATER  TRANSPORTATION  SYSTEM
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THE  DEATH  SIGN

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Miners used to sign the place where somebody died (mainly from underground methane explosion or collapse) with Holy Cross on the mine's wall.
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5-25 mln years old cone
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5-25  MILLION  YEARS  OLD  CONE

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I found a cone imprisoned in salt cone. My guide said that it's the example of flora from Myocene Epoch.
I found Myocen was 5mln - 25 mln years ago, a little old cone, isn't it?
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Strange salt formations
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WHITE  SALT  CORRIDOR

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You can see various strange salt rocky formations along the tourist route (and out of it). They maybe white, green, yellow.
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A visit to a salt mine

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700-year-old the Wieliczka Salt Mine

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 Would you like to receive a postcard from Poland? Click here, please! Thank you very, very much :-))) The Wieliczka Salt Mine, nowadays practically on the outskirts of Krakow, has been worked as a... 

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