Krakowian experience

To really experience this place, you will need to:
1. eat a kielbasa in a roll. The less adventurous can stick to Kebabs.
2. Drink local beer with juice. Start with Tyskie or Zywiece and ask for "sok" in it. For straight up beer, try Dog in the Fog, my favorite.
3. Sip some Vodka. Meant to be sipped, not slammed. It is more expensive(22 zl or $11 for a medium bottle), but very smooth and flavorful, totally worth it. This vodka has been well made and shouldn't be mixed with anything.
4. Walk Krakow's Rynek Glowny at night.
5. Visit St. Mary's church(Kosciol Swieta Mariacki).
6. Go to the youth or Student mass at the Dominican church in town. If only for the culture, but the most powerful religious ceremony I have ever been through, especially if you're catholic.
7. The stained glass at the Franciscan church is a must, very beautiful.
8. Stroll down the Planty, the garden that forms a ring around the city. John Paul II used to walk this at night.
9. Take a tour at the Collegium Maium.
10. Must go to Auschwitz. It's 1 hour away and 18 zl for a roundtrip ticket if I remember, not including the 3 hour tour over there. You must go.
11. Visit the jewish synagogues in Kazimierz, the Jewish Quarter.
12. have a beer at Alchemia in Kazimierz. Partiers should go to Prozac.

the more adventurous should head to Zakopane for hiking and a beautiful mountain town. Visit Wadowice where John Paul II was born. See the Black Madonna at Czestochowa. Go rafting on the Dunajec.
Generally I saw skip Wielieczka salt mines, a huge cavernous system of salt mines 30 minutes from Krakow. It gets old after the first 10 rooms of giant statues made of salt.