Souvenirs from Poland - amber to rock salt to ginger bread
Rock salt from underground mines If amber is not your rock, then delve 300 metres below sea level to enter a 800 year old salt mine in Wieliczka near Krakow. Wieliczka's tryst with salt goes back almost 5000 years ago, when it was extracted from dried brine springs in the area and the earliest evidence probably goes back to the 12th century ...