One of my favourite aspects about travelling is the change in atmosphere at every stop. And not just the weather. Each culture with different histories reverberating through the population helps to create that unique sense of place that you may either love, hate or feel indifferent about.
One week in Poland that finished with one night in Warsaw helped me to further develop my understanding of modern culture, and the freedom that we have had since World War II. That is one point of history reverberating through the Polish people and it was ever present in Bialowieza primeval forest and in Warsaw, as depicted by memorials to those who fell and those stories I was told.
The next video instalment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OpeBpZF27c was a little harder to put together because I wanted to capture these feelings as best as possible, I just had to figure out how! I used the opportunity to trial a different style of video and I hope it delivers the same sense of place that I experienced.
Enjoy!
The stalk - a Polish icon
Bialowieza Primeval Forest - Part of UNESCO's World Heritage list and the man and biosphere reserve system
Sustainable harvesting at its best - the buffer for the forest World Heritage Area is never clear felled
Some extra info if your eyesight is good enough to read it
Lynx tracking with Genuk
Want your hering with cream or onion? The rest of the menu was basically dumplings or pork with Saurkraut
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One of two ways to see the strict reserve - on a horse and cart or with a tour guide. That's the benefits of visiting the local research institutes - access all areas.
Entrance to the strict reserve
A 270 year old pine tree that wasn't even the oldest tree in the forest with Tomasz Borowik who studies in population ecology and conservation biology of ungulates and large carnivores
Director of the Polish Academy of Science Mammal Research Institute - Andrzej Zalewski
European Bison in a box
European lynx in the local zoo
European bison in a cage
Sunset on the last afternoon at a BBQ in a nearby village
Warsaw
was
quite
a pretty
city
Next stop: Idaho!
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