FOR THOSE WHO ARE EAGER FOR THE WORLD
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WIGRY NATIONAL PARK The Wigry National Park is a setting of uncontested qualities of nature as well as cultural values. The reserve, under the protection of the competent officials, has remained the treasured environment features. These are multifarious terrain formations, wood concentrations, and wealth of water regions, such as small lakes, located in-between forest sites, or the vast lakes areas as the Wigry lake, which stands the greatest ecological locality of its kind in the world altogether with the joined former monasteries. The land is also interlaced with a net of slender rivers. The main and the longest one is Czarna Hańcza, which at the upper stretch of it is typified by a steep gradient such as those as mountain torrents. It is the most well-known river in Poland on account of canoeing rallies where from partakers cross the picturesque route to Augustów. The woods, lakes and rivers is the natural ecosystem of the abundant local flora and fauna. What can be found here is exceptionally rare sundew or orchids, or club mosses. Sea eagles and ever-present beavers are more and more frequently observed. All these valuable assets attract travellers whether they are natural scientists, water enthusiasts, biking tourists, or horse zealots. Thousands of people go in for angling notwithstanding it is summer or winter. Remarkably, all the bionetwork is provided with functional and pleasing infrastructure what is reasonably inviting to the disabled persons altogether. The WPN Tourist Information Centre is in operation throughout all year long. The guidance is presented in as many languages as Polish, German, English, and Russian. Altogether, some assistance can be obtained via the established website, which is Facilities and services made available to the disabled: 1. The directorate office of WPN in Krzywe. The main entrance is secured from any inconvenient steps and curbs. Consequently, people disabled are far more free to reach the ground floor and may take the opportunity to view the there exhibition “At the site of Wigry”. The doorway was adapted to accommodate as much space as 100cm. The exposition is designed to make it possible to be accessed by persons of limited movement potential as well as individuals who prove deficient eye-sight – the depicting boards are written in the Braille’s language whereas display units are made to order to be detectable and sensed what given terrain configuration, tree bark, animals happen to be. The models of the natural network are positioned on some special platforms what improves communication for the persons wheel-chaired and sightless. 2. Touch screens – based also on sound, enable the unsighted to understand the WPN information system 3. The exhibition of sculptures is set on a plain length of land what is customized to facilitate the access to the disabled on the wheelchairs. 42