Karkonoskie Centrum Edukacji Ekologicznej w Szklarskiej Porębie

Jelenia Góra

National parks in Poland are visited by well over ten million tourists every year. The Tatra National Park is admittedly the most popular, but second place on this list of attractions goes to the Karkonosze National Park. It is hard to believe that it draws some 2 million Poles and foreign guests eager for close contact with nature. We recommend to all of them that, before setting off on a mountain hike, they take a tour with an audio guide of the Karkonosze Centre for Environmental Education in Szklarska Poręba.The Centre operates under the auspices of the Karkonosze National Park. In a building on Okrzei Street, almost at the foot of Szrenica, the park's specialists have prepared an interesting, modern exhibition devoted to the nature of the Karkonosze Mountains and their cultural heritage.The audio guide helps you find your way around the exhibition quickly and presents difficult topics in an accessible way that everyone can understand. Together with the audio guide, we learn about the topography of the Karkonosze, their vegetation zones, the natural phenomena unique to these mountains and rare species of plants and animals. There is also a part about the people living at the foot of the Karkonosze and their achievements.The whole is rounded off by a multimedia panorama of the range and a scale model.