The Salt Mine in pictures I

One of my biggest questions was HOW they lowered horses 500 feet below the earth! Well, here is how...and the very ropes they used.

A little Polish humour...though nobody could translate it! One of those expressions that just doesn't translate well, but it is talking about salt!

A demonstration of how the miners were lowered into the mine. The ride down was excruciating and some would fall or pass out.

We survived the return trip up the elevator, sandwiched in with 14 other people. In the middle is our tour guide (who had been in the job 17 years!).