Treblinka and Tykocin

You can combine your visit to Treblinka with a tour of Tykocin, a well-preserved Jewish shtetl.

The little town of Tykocin looks like a place where time has stood still. The town appears to be exactly as the Jews left it when they were expelled and murdered more than 80 years ago.

Tykocin is an epitome of a typical urban scheme of a shtetl.

Architecturally, it`s one of the best-preserved examples of an old-style shtetl – an East European market town, inhabited mostly but not exclusively by the Jews. Shtetl was the birthplace of a rich and distinctive Jewish culture that described the traditional way of life of Eastern European Jews and was annihilated during World War 2.

As a result, very few shtetls survived to this day in their original shape. The best-known exception in Poland is Tykocin.

The town`s major tourist attraction is a baroque synagogue built in 1642, the second largest in today`s Poland. In 2013 the synagogue of Tykocin was voted one of the “new seven wonders” of Poland, in the third edition of a readers’ contest sponsored by the Polish edition of the National Geographic Traveller magazine.

Walking around the town, you can see 18-th and 19-th century wooden houses in original, baroque urban layout. Its grand scale is dominated by monumental church and monastery.

In Tykocin we will have lunch in a restaurant which serves traditional dishes of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.

 
You can combine this tour with:

How it works?

Duration:
13-14 hrs

Meeting point:
at a place convenient to you: your hotel, airport, train station etc.

Transportation:
Private car

Price:
4200 złoty – maximum 4 persons (5-seat car)
5000 złoty – 5-6 persons (mini-van)
5800 złoty – 7-19 persons (bus)
6600 złoty – 20 persons and more

What`s included:
Guiding service
Car service
parking fees

Extra expenses:
Entrance fees – 32 zloty per person

Book:
If you like this tour, just drop me a message with your preferred date and time. Let me also know how many of you are coming and where are you staying in Warsaw.