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You mention it is great for tourism. I am intrigued. As a tourist, how would I best get around in this area (longer distances), if I would not be cycling? Renta

by mongol 7y ago

You mention it is great for tourism. I am intrigued. As a tourist, how would I best get around in this area (longer distances), if I would not be cycling? Rental car?

ajuc 7y ago
If you want to travel fast you need a car there, yes. Public transport only works well along the few main roads, outside of that it's like 2-3 buses a day or none at all. In any case traveling fast kinda misses the point, the fun stuff is in between. If you don't want to bike you can rent a kayak and go down one of the rivers. IMHO the best way is to get a tent and a bike, take a train to some city (Włodawa works), and bike for a week or two camping elsewhere each day. Best time is June - late enough that there's lots of cheap fresh fruits everywhere (you can buy them from farmers along the roads or just gather the wild fruits in the forests), but before the school ends so even the popular lakes are empty. Also there's that https://greenvelo.pl/en/map https://greenvelo.pl/en/map a bike-only road that goes for over 500 km through most of the tourist spots in the Polish parts of Polesie (and also later Warmia and Mazury). Less wild but still cool. Easy flat terrain starts north of Chełm and continues all the way to the Baltic sea, BTW choosing a smiling scenic mask icon for museums wasn't the best choice on that map, especially when you have a museum of a german death camp there :/
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
  I crosschecked that with https://www.darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#7/51.283/22.775 https://www.darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#7/51.283/22.7... so there should be some pretty good nightskies enjoyable with a large binocular, or even a 5 inch Maksutov. How do you remember the weather to be on average for the time (June) you suggested? Cloudy, hazy, or clear? With clear i mean, could you when you camped somewhere in the forest, the campfire out, your eyes used to the dark, see the milky way or some other faint smudges of nebula with the bare eye?
  - ajuc 7y ago
    Yes you could see Milky Way pretty well on the moonless nights, even with naked eyes. The weather should be 20-35 C, usually partial cloud cover but no rain, sometimes no clouds at all, sometimes a quick thunderstorm, very rarely you'd get a whole day of rain.
    - LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
      That is good to know since this is so rare nowadays. Thank you. Will consider that for some possible travel in the future.

by mongol 7y ago

You mention it is great for tourism. I am intrigued. As a tourist, how would I best get around in this area (longer distances), if I would not be cycling? Rental car?

ajuc 7y ago

If you want to travel fast you need a car there, yes. Public transport only works well along the few main roads, outside of that it's like 2-3 buses a day or none at all. In any case traveling fast kinda misses the point, the fun stuff is in between. If you don't want to bike you can rent a kayak and go down one of the rivers. IMHO the best way is to get a tent and a bike, take a train to some city (Włodawa works), and bike for a week or two camping elsewhere each day. Best time is June - late enough that there's lots of cheap fresh fruits everywhere (you can buy them from farmers along the roads or just gather the wild fruits in the forests), but before the school ends so even the popular lakes are empty. Also there's that https://greenvelo.pl/en/map https://greenvelo.pl/en/map a bike-only road that goes for over 500 km through most of the tourist spots in the Polish parts of Polesie (and also later Warmia and Mazury). Less wild but still cool. Easy flat terrain starts north of Chełm and continues all the way to the Baltic sea, BTW choosing a smiling scenic mask icon for museums wasn't the best choice on that map, especially when you have a museum of a german death camp there :/

LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
I crosschecked that with https://www.darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#7/51.283/22.775 https://www.darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html#7/51.283/22.7... so there should be some pretty good nightskies enjoyable with a large binocular, or even a 5 inch Maksutov. How do you remember the weather to be on average for the time (June) you suggested? Cloudy, hazy, or clear? With clear i mean, could you when you camped somewhere in the forest, the campfire out, your eyes used to the dark, see the milky way or some other faint smudges of nebula with the bare eye?
- ajuc 7y ago
  Yes you could see Milky Way pretty well on the moonless nights, even with naked eyes. The weather should be 20-35 C, usually partial cloud cover but no rain, sometimes no clouds at all, sometimes a quick thunderstorm, very rarely you'd get a whole day of rain.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
    That is good to know since this is so rare nowadays. Thank you. Will consider that for some possible travel in the future.