About this route
Route overview
A full day in the heart of Kashubia — a region with its own language, folklore and the only ethnic minority of northern Poland, mapped into one logical plan with a private chauffeur. Standard plan: 9:00 hotel pickup, 10:30 Koscierzyna — the capital of Kashubia, Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows of Koscierzyna from 1740, Museum of the Koscierzyna Land with ethnographic collections, the family home of Hieronim Derdowski (19th-century Kashubian poet, author of "O panu Czorlinscim"). 12:00 Wdzydze Open-Air Museum — the Teodora and Izydor Gulgowski Ethnographic Park, the oldest open-air museum in Poland founded in 1906, original Kashubian cottages from the 18th-19th centuries placed on 22 hectares by Lake Wdzydze, a wooden church from 1700, windmills, a wayside cross, ethnographic rooms with craft equipment, Kashubian embroidery, ceramics. Lunch at an agritourism farm near the open-air museum (Kashubian cuisine, plince, ruchanki, fish from Lake Wdzydze). 14:00 Kartuzy — Collegiate of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the former Carthusian Monastery from the 14th century (1380, the only Carthusian order in Poland with its discipline of silence), Gothic interior, crypts, Kashubian Museum. 16:00 Wejherowo — Wejherowo Calvary from 1649, the most famous Polish calvary with 26 Passion chapels set across the hills. 18:00 return to Gdansk. EUR 520 Mercedes V-Class (preferred for the long route). The service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if the pickup is at GDN.