Sights in Białowieża National Park
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Royal Oaks
About 3km north of the Bison Reserve are the Royal Oaks , a score of ancient trees, some over four centuries old. There's a short walking trail that winds its way among them. Each of the trees is named after a Lithuanian or Polish monarch; the biggest of the lot is Stefan Batory, 5.1m in circumference, 40m tall and 450 years old.
To get here, take the motor road from Białowieża towards Narewka (it begins beside the PTTK office, and has blue trail marks) for 5km to a crossroads. Turn right; the oaks are 200m along the dirt road. You can also hike north from the Bison Reserve on a yellow-marked trail (3km). If you take a cart to the Bison Reserve, you can visit the oaks on …
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Park Pałacowy
At the end of the 19th century, Park Pałacowy was laid out around a splendid palace built for the Russian tsar in 1894 on the site of an ancient royal hunting lodge once used by Polish kings. The Russian Orthodox Church, outside the eastern entrance to the park, was built at the same time. The southern entrance to Park Pałacowy, beside the PTTK office, leads across a fish pond past a stone obelisk, which commemorates a bison hunt led by King August III Saxon in 1752. The royal bag that day was 42 bison, 13 elks and two roe deer.
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Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum, which features exhibitions relating to the flora and fauna of the park (mostly forest scenes with stuffed animals and a collection of plants), the park’s history, and the archaeology and ethnography of the region. The permanent exhibition can be seen only by guided tour, which adds flavour to an otherwise static museum but is a tad expensive if your group numbers are small. The viewing tower provides terrific views over the village, and just north of the museum you will find a grove of 250-year-old oaks.
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Bison Reserve
The Bison Reserve is a park where animals typical of the puszcza, including bison, elks, wild boar, wolves, stags and roe deer, are kept in large, ranch-style enclosures. You can also see the żubroń, a cross between a bison and cow, which has been bred so successfully in Białowieża that it is even larger than the bison itself, reaching up to 1200kg.
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Strictly Protected Area
Dating from 1921, the Strictly Protected Area is the oldest section of the national park, covering an area of around 4750 hectares, bordered to the north and west by the marshy Hwożna and Narewka Rivers, and to the east by the Bielawiezskaja Primeval Forest National Park in Belarus.
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