Jelenia Gora is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The closest airport is 1.5 hour away in Wroclaw with daily flights from all major airports in Europe and UK. Ryan Air and Wizz Air offer ticket prices starting from as low as 40 Euro/£30.

With a beautiful mountains views, large number of spectacular palaces, beautiful historic gardens and other attractions, the Jelenia Góra valley is often nicknamed “The Pearl of Karkonosze”.

Jelenia Góra is located within the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, close to the Karkonosze mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border. Ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba are situated 10 to 15 kilometres (6 to 9 miles) from the town. The city constitutes a separate municipality and city county, as well as being the seat of surrounding Jelenia Góra County.

Town Centre in Jelenia Góra:

Autor: Polska z drona

Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgf2lPBaUSKbWXoamQ148iA/videos

Town itself is beautiful-a lot of mountains and forests surrounding the city. Jelenia Góra is located in a polish-german-czech triangle: 26 km’s from Czech border-Jakuszyce (160 km’s miles from Prague), 65 km’s from German border-Gorlitz (360 km’s from Berlin), 16 km’s  from Karpacz (ski and mountain biking center,PL), 18 km’s from Szklarska Poreba (ski and mountain biking center,PL), 32 km’s from Harrachov (ski and mountain biking center in Czech), 115 km’s from Wroclaw (the nearest airport), 286 km’s from Poznan, 366 km’s from Cracow.

Why Poland, why Jelenia Góra ?

Autor: We Are Going Somewhere

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb55h2sf-U4

Jelenia Góra (Click on an image to enlarge)