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Post by kaima on Apr 13, 2015 8:45:50 GMT -7
Hope you all enjoy floating along the Polish- Slovak border. The raftsmen are tradtionally Gorals. It was sorely tempting to put this under Culture, but it fits underTourism as well.
I recommend the trip from either side of the border!
Kai
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Post by Jaga on Apr 13, 2015 12:29:47 GMT -7
Kai,
I watched it and I learned a bit more about the history. This rides became popular after WW II and also after the dam was made. I did not realize that hermits lived there... the last one moved back to central Poland and got married eventually!
Last time we took a ride on Dunajec - it was from Slovakian side to Polish. It was less crowded, but the guys did not talk too much about the history.
On this video they were showing Janosik's jump through a narrow part of Dunajec.
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Post by kaima on Apr 14, 2015 9:09:11 GMT -7
Kai, I watched it and I learned a bit more about the history. This rides became popular after WW II and also after the dam was made. I did not realize that hermits lived there... the last one moved back to central Poland and got married eventually! Last time we took a ride on Dunajec - it was from Slovakian side to Polish. It was less crowded, but the guys did not talk too much about the history. On this video they were showing Janosik's jump through a narrow part of Dunajec. The Poprad River becomes a branch of the Dunajec in Poland. Rafting is mentioned, but only mentioned, in many histories. Only recently I read a research paper that looked at historical weather records in Poland and Slovakia (then North Hungary). They mention a catastrophic storm in 1850 that changed the bed of the Poprad, moved some boulders in the navigable stream, and ended the river's use for commercial rafting. |
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