Lost in translation

Krakow trip was great! More than 100 exchange students were on this trip. This town is alot more touristy compared to Warsaw. Its a beautiful city with a sense of friendliness and warm in the air.

During our 3 days stay there we visited the Salt mine, Old town square of Krakow, Wawel Castle and some churches. What i really like most about Krakow is its weather and FOOD! Oh man i should show all of you pictures of me eating KEbab! oh gosh.. (salivating ... :)
I particularly like the clubs there. Esp on the first night... Its hip/hop and R&B all the way. None of those techno and house music for a change. But more importantly, its the company that makes the difference. You can feel that everyone is in the mood to party during the Pre-party session in the kitchen of the hostel. The club for the second night is very much like the MOS in Singapore (but of course not as posh and beautiful-- but the idea is the same). But of course, I still prefer the MOS in Singapore. The place looks pretty run-down but the crowd was crazy. Music was pretty good and everyone really partied pretty hard. (till 8am in the morning!)

Salt Mine- The Last Supper from a block of Salt (looks 1.5m deep but its only 15 inches)

Old town square of Krakow

Church

Wawel Castle

View of the whole Town: from the castle.

Pre-Party

Booze

We went to the Jewish town before moving on to the last part of our tour. Visited their synagogues, museums, shops, cemetry etc. We want to understand the Jews alittle better before moving on to find out what happened during the Holocaust.

Jewish Synagogues

Outside the Synagogue

Cemetry for the Jews

For our last part of the tour, we went to Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp.
(http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php)
Its a very sad place and you can't imagine the number of people actually died on the grounds that you are stepping on. Many of the prisoners actually looked forward to arriving at the camp as they were deceived by the Nazis that they are there to start afresh- a new home for them. They brought along things like clothes, basic necessity, praying materials etc and each of them was only given 25kg. This thought just kept drumming in my mind: So what will you pack into your luggage if you know that you gonna leave your country for good? What will be part of your 25kg load? Your favourite jeans? chilli-sauce for chilli lovers? WHAT WILL YOU BRING ALONG WITH YOU?

The Gas Chambers