Krakow trip - part 4

Chapter 5 - part 4

    With the days passing our trip to Krakow was coming to an end, unfortunately, after waking up we all started to pack our stuff and "fixing" up the place before returning to SGGW. We still had one more place to visit in the area, which would suck if we had left without witnessing it's horrible splendor. Auschwitz.

   This place that nowadays every one knows, was once the home of millions of people, sentenced to spend their lifes in captivity, eventually leading to their deaths. I had read about Auschwitz before and I thought that this concentration camp was just the place we were seeing, I was so wrong. The camp was huge, not just the place where the tour guides went in, this thing span for miles, and it's surprising well restoured and conservated considering the aftermaths of the war and the resentment its survivors had for the place. They must have wanted the future generations to never forget what happened to them in that place. At the entrance there's a lot of monuments from different countries dedicated to the preservation of this site, for those who don't really care about history or who don't know much about what happened in this place, this will just be another landmark, but for other it still carries a lot of suffering and a really dark atmosphere.

   Seeing this place once in my life was enough! Some of the others even went so far as to call it a day and return to the bus, abandoning the rest of the tour. I remember walking along this corridor and seeing pictures of people, people who died after spending months or one year at most in the camp, so many faces, each one of them a personality, a culture, a life lost for ever. 

     We checked the gas chambers and rooms with all kinds of stuff that belonged to the people who died there, luggage, belongings even their hair! That's right, there was this huge room that contained a glass and behind that glass, hair, of all colours. The nazi machine reutilized everything possible for their war effort, hair and skin were no exceptions. I think, we spend maybe two hours in the camp, before returning to the bus where the next stop was about half an hour away. It was in a railroad junction, where the trains carrying the people for the camp would stop to deliver their payload, I thought I had seen the worst of Auschwitz, again I was mistaken. In this place there were hundreds of huts, in these huts people slept, did their necessities and worked during the extermination. At the time we were there the people in charge of the preservation of the camp where rebuilding some of these huts, so we got a chance to see what was life in there. Absolutely miserable, no words can describe that place anymore.

   Having had enough of that place, I returned to the buss where I found most of my greek friends in, they shared the same feeling has I and gotten out of there sooner. We waited for the rest of the group and got back to Krakow to get our luggage, the trip back to Warsaw would take almost six hours and I was starving, me and napoleon started to mess around with the greek girls along the way. I think we even had a card game going on, no not a drinking game this time! Ahaha

   Half way to our good old city we stopped at some place in a city, like a mall or whatever and got a chance to eat something. Good old KFC was present there to satisfy my hunger, that polish KFC was more spicy then usual, but that thing tasted so good I didn't even care about my mouth anymore. After our dinner we got back on the road, some slept, others chilled, and others kept making noise! You got to love my portuguese boys, even after going to a place like that there's still someone who can lighten up the mood by saying stupid nonsense. A few hours later we got back to Warsaw to SGGW and with a lot of sadness from my part I had to say goodbye again to my friends, because I had to take another two busses for my personal "hellhole" with my beloved "friend" who kept complaining for some reason about the concentration camp guide. Good thing I didn't bring to much with me because we ended up taking almost an hour to get back to that dump, since we kept missing the night buss. Just thinking about how much fun I missed because of that apartment makes my stomach twitch. Anyways that trip to Krakow was a blast! 

   I can finally end my trip to this beautiful city with this part, all my memories were fantastic and I coudn't have picked better company to be with. Thanks for your time in reading this, have a big kiss from me and napoleon! :D 

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