During the upcoming weekend the hot Latin-American rhythms shall fill the Saline underground during the Crystal Salsa Party, taking place between 3th-5th October. Numerous workshops, salsotecas and accompanying events have been planned. The Salsa Festival is taking place the second time already in the underground of the mine.

The dance rhythms shall also resound on 25th October, where the Salt Cup 2008 Dance Tournament and the Polish Professional Dancing Couples Championships in the Latin-American dances category shall take place in the Warszawa Chamber, 125 metres under the earth.

During the tournament the Latin-American dance world champions Michał Malitowski and Joanna Leunis shall present themselves as shall the standard dance world vice-champions Arunas Bizokas and Katusha Demidova.

Junior and youth pairs shall also compete.The Salt Cup shall take place in the saline underground for the fourth time, already.

These are not all of the numerous events that shall take place in the immediate future in the Wieliczka Salt Mine.

Thus the mine does its best to provide interesting attractions to the residents of the town, at the same time making the stay of the tourists visiting the mine more attractive, encouraging them to visit our town even more numerously.

Doubtless, the tourism and culture offer of the "Wieliczka" Salt Mine is of interest to numerous recipients all over the world - the statistics from recent years show that the saline underground is being visited by over 1,2 mln tourists annually.

It is worth mentioning that even this, 2008 year, the number of tourists sightseeing the "Wieliczka" Salt Mine until the end of May 2008 is higher than in the analogous period last year, despite the fact that the first quarter of the year according to the Tourism Institute saw the 10% decrease in the number of foreign tourists visiting Poland in relation to the analogous period of the last year.

Until the August 2008, the Wieliczka Salt Mine has been visited by over 800 thousand persons, out of which 450 thousand were the foreign guests.

Most of them were British (62,2 thousand), German (30,6 thousand) and French (30,1 thousand).

There were also the tourists from more exotic countries like Korea, Israel, Brasil, China, New Zealand, Malaysia, Mexico, Algeria.

Let's hope the positive tendency can be maintained as long as possible.