| Page Views: 2,375 Last Visit to Suwalki: September, 2009 | Suwalszczyzna - the north-eastern corner of Poland by evaanna - last update: Oct 9, 2009 |
| Scenery of the Suwalki region |
This page is not only about Suwalki (pronounced souvowkey), a town in north-eastern Poland, but the whole region, called Suwalszczyzna, the Suwalki Lake District, abounding in lakes, forests, morainal hills, whole fields of boulders and stones, all of them being the remainder of glacial activity here thousands of years ago. The fields are sometimes so steep that there have been cases of tractors overturning on their slopes. It's a little known region of Poland, a gem waiting to be discovered by tourists from abroad. |
|  | The first time we stayed there we found accommodation on a farm near Rutka-Tartak. There was a small lake nearby with banks overgrown by reeds so you could only get to it walking on the unsteady pier. All around were hilly fields and hardly any forest. As there was not much to do within walking distance, apart from feeding the farmer's goats and sampling the landlady's delicious cooking, we went on sightseeing trips every day, not that it was easy. The bumpy local gravel roads did not encourage driving but once you got onto the asphalt, you could visit many interesting places, which I will describe in my tips. |
| | We revisited the area in 2007, 2008 and in August and then September 2009, staying at a house that a friend of ours had built there since so I have been able to add many new tips. The roads have greatly improved since our first stay and, with little traffic, can be a biker's paradise, if a little hilly at places. We were now able to spend hours on our enormous verandah, watching animals like deer coming near and even had some visitors on the verandah itself: large grasshoppers, frogs, lizards, swallows flying to and fro. Just watching them was pure pleasure, enhanced by the sounds of the Chinese bells on our verandah swinging in the wind. We were also able to visit Vilnius twice, a tiring trip of over 400 km both ways but worthwhile all the same. And this year (2009) we did even more sightseeing in Lithuania. |
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volopolo Mon Sep 14, 2009 05:23 UTC
Great picture of Scenery of the Suwalki region. The clounds in this picture are very beautiful. Nice tips! full of information! | Nemorino Wed Aug 26, 2009 15:25 UTC
Me again, coming back to look at the updates and new tips that you have added to this page since December 27, 2007. I hope they find a good use for that listed Trakiszki Railway Station and don't just let it fall apart! | Pawtuxet Fri Aug 21, 2009 13:39 UTC
LOVE this page! Great job. Monks on knees leave me teary..Skansen always a favorite. Jewish cem. tip sent to friends/excellent idea to commemorate-folk art would occupy me for hours. Thanks for a terrific page. | LoriPori Mon Aug 3, 2009 12:13 UTC
Very enjoyable page on Suwalki Ewa esp. the Lithuanian Farm, the Anthill Cake, the timber churches. The amazing thing was a Celtic Festival in the middle of Poland. |
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