Aga at our hostel recommended the Free Walking Tours. This is a trademarked company name and they are active in 40 cities in Europe. Basically, you join a tour, led by a guide, in groups by language and you are given an excellent guided tour of some part of the city -- Krakow in our case. The guides work only for tips and if you choose to stay til the end of the tour, you decide then how much to tip them based on how they did, how much you enjoyed it. Great idea and we liked the experience so much that we went on two tours: Krakow Jewish tour and the Old Town.
What's special about these tours in Poland is that every guide needs to be licensed and to become licensed, you need to take a course and pass three exams. The course and exams are given only in Polish, so almost every guide is a native Pole. In other countries, the English guides are typically native English speakers who have learned the local script.
Our guide for the Jewish tour, Gosha, in front of one of the synagogues in the former Jewish ghetto of Kazmiricz:
Gosha in the very square where Jews were corralled and sent to the concentration camps. Now a memorial square:
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