{"id":32270,"date":"2023-12-10T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildeast.blog\/?p=32270"},"modified":"2024-01-12T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T06:37:36","slug":"augustow-canal-suwalki-lake-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildeast.blog\/en\/augustow-canal-suwalki-lake-district\/","title":{"rendered":"200 years of the August\u00f3w Canal: Discoveries around the Suwa\u0142ki Lake District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My rule of thumb is: if you don’t just want to get to know a country superficially, but really discover it, you need to have seen at least three other places in addition to the capital. Preferably the ones that are not on the first page of every travel guide \u2013 because Germany is not just the Brandenburg Gate and the Oktoberfest, the USA has 48 other states to offer in addition to New York and California, and so on. Poland is no different. Here, too, many people only know Warsaw<\/a>, Krakow<\/a> and perhaps Gdansk<\/a> or Wroclaw<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know, for example, that the August\u00f3w Canal, the most important waterway in north-eastern Poland, is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year? The Suwa\u0142ki Lake District in the Podlaskie region, where the canal is located, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over Europe every summer, for whom Poland does not begin and end in Warsaw. Last but not least, the region’s excellent gastronomy<\/a> plays a major role \u2013 here, too, Polish cuisine<\/a> has much more to offer than the world-famous, good old pierogi. But we’ll get to that later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n