we finally made it to the baltic sea now don't get me wrong i like mountains i like lakes
but there's nothing better than spending a day at the sea and that's exactly what we're going
to do today here in sopot enjoy the day at the sea and take you around the city
now there's no better place to start this video often right here on the beach
of beautiful sopot sopot is supposedly one of the number one summer destinations to come and check
out in poland and that's exactly why we came here today to check this beautiful place out we hopped
on a train and only took us roughly around 10 minutes super super fast very very convenient
from the city of Gdańsk so this is number two for us out of the tri-cities we still
have one more to go after this but let's check out and see what sopot has to offer
so one of the first stops in today's video is the pier of sopot here it is one of the longest piers
and longest wooden piers in all of europe with over 500 meters and believe it or not you actually
have to pay entrance in order to get on this pier it's nine złoty per person and we've never paid
entrance to just walk on up here but that's what we're going to do now and check this pier out
this pier itself apparently stretches all the way to the bay of Gdańsk super interesting and there's
plenty of people out and about wandering around here on the pier itself now pier in polish is
molo and you can see the sign that indicates where you need to go in the actual center of
sopot and you're greeted when you come on to the pier with beautiful views all along the stunning
beaches here as well it is july but it is still relatively in the low 20s so i am wearing a hoodie
and naomi's wearing long pants in july we are on the baltic sea nonetheless but i'm sure it gets
a lot warmer coming to the end of july and early august now from this beautiful pier you can even
see the shipyard of Gdańsk far in the distance that we have seen in our last video when we
were on the boat it looks really really stunning and you obviously have an open view all over the
bay of Gdańsk now on this lovely pier you have a selection of cafes and restaurants and we even
saw the option to buy tickets to hop on a boat and take a trip around the bay here or even get
off for example in Gdańsk or in sopot and i think that would be absolutely amazing first impression
for me personally of sopot sopot seems like the quiet little brother of Gdańsk and it seems to
be here simply for the pleasure and leisure of the people that live in the tri-city areas and you can
see exactly that it's doing the right job there's so many people here enjoying their time beautiful
beach and then you have this stunning pier as well with so many different opportunities to escape
normal life whether it's your nine to five job or you may have a family that you want to bring on
a quick vacation to the beach sopot seems like the perfect destination for all of that if you
guys have cash to splash as well there is higher end options of boat trips that you can take here
from sopot as well this beautiful yacht here is around 5600 złoty for just a three hour ride which
comes out to roughly around 11 to 1200 euro so if you do have a bit of spare cash to blow and you
want to come and enjoy life for a few days here that's open for you too it's not it's definitely
not a budget destination sopot we're seeing plenty of high-end places beautiful restaurants
as well and i'm sure that if you want to spend a pretty penny this is the place to do it in poland
and speaking of poland as well this is something that is really standing out to me personally
poland really does have it all when it comes to nature and accessibility to certain activities
you have the inland which is obviously most of poland is inland central europe
but then you also have access to beautiful coastline such as here at the baltic sea so
nature mountains lakes ocean beautiful sunshine during the summer and nice cold winters
what more could you ask for poland literally has it all thankfully because we got some some
good weather finally here at the coast tomorrow we're planning on going and checking out Gdynia
which is supposedly one of the youngest if not the youngest cities in all of poland and you can
actually see the cliffs over in the distance of Gdynia just off here in the distance you have orłowo
which is somewhere that was actually recommended for us to go and check out there's supposedly
some stunning cliffs over there on the way to Gdynia itself so we definitely have to stop off
and check those out at some point as well now sopot is known to be a resort and spa destination
of poland obviously the it summer destination of poland as well and we actually have a perfect view
onto one of those resort resorts which is the grand hotel here in sopot and it just looks
absolutely beautiful and it is directly located at this what seems like a never-ending beach here in
the bay and it's just so stunning we just saw that you can even take a speed boat in the bay of sopot
or in the bay of Gdańsk and it looks like a lot of fun they're kind of driving really really fast
paced in an eight motion it looks like a lot of fun i would love to do that actually
directly in front of the pier you have this little market that is just super super cute you have
loads of market stands from like different areas from all over the world we saw some peruvian stuff
we saw afghan cuisine we saw iranian cuisine chinese polish
and so on so you have loads and loads of options here and today we decided
to mix it up a little bit we went with some dim sum so the chinese pierogi
sauce is supposedly very spicy so i just want to give it a try by itself
not that spicy very spicy it didn't burn at all it seems to be like chili flakes and stuff like that
in there check out these these are like the dumplings dim sum dumplings
they kind of do resemble pierogi in some form but they are obviously a little bit different
we decided to go for chicken and mushroom inside so
cannot wait to give this a go shiitake mushrooms shiitake mushrooms let's give it a dip
all right give her a dip i hope it's not going to be super hot is
they are really good
smell is amazing so there's chicken and the mushrooms in there but you
can also taste a little bit of coriander or cilantro depending on where you come from
um it's really tasty very good ten out of ten ten out of ten ten out of ten
nice all right guys here we go first take for me of the dim sum
we went for forks by the way because chopsticks and me they just don't go together but check it
out i got a healthy serving of those chili flakes Peperoncino whatever you want to call it on there
oh my god that's so good
yes
the texture is incredible definitely a little bit different than the traditional
polish style pierogi i know so many different cuisines
like to make their own take on dumplings and stuff like that this dim sum is awesome so tasty
why do you whisper so now that our bellies are nice warm and full of that amazing street food
that we got here in sopot let's do a little bit of poland trivia just like we did in the olstyn video
not so long ago so what is the longest river in poland the vistula river the vistala or the
Wisła i'm going to guess is definitely the longest one i believe that it stretches all the way from
here actually from Gdańsk the neighboring uh city of sopot and it stretches all the
way down to roughly around bielsko biała so what is the highest point in poland
Szyndzielnia
or maybe i don't know more no it's not that high actually Szyndzielnia and what was the
mountain called where morskie oko is like the tatras rysy rysy yeah r-y-s-y i think that we're both going
to be on the same page there for that one that must be the highest point reese's buttercups is
the highest point of poland out of the cities that we have visited so far being in poland now
for just over two months what in your opinion is the cultural capital of poland oh my god
i would have out of the cities that we visited so far maybe wrocław
i don't know difficult question i'm gonna definitely guess as a culture capital somewhere
where you can experience a lot of poland's culture and true authentic um you know cuisine etc i
would definitely say zakopane if i had to pick somewhere it would be somewhere between zakopane
and kraków but yeah let us know guys down in the comments what you would answer to these
questions that we just asked there let's go and explore a little bit more of beautiful sunny
sopot all right guys let's give spiciness another try we decided to get a chocolate covered chili
here in the market just at the beginning of monte casino in sopot this thing looks
really strange and interesting i'm wondering if it is actually spicy so let's give it a go
oh my god
it's actually just really sweet very crunchy and very fresh it's actually really delicious as well
you have to try this wouldn't have thought that let's give this a try okay is it actually not
spicy super sweet i was way i was hoping for spicy this time it's really tasty
it's good wow yeah what do we oh it is spicy oh i'm getting spice now oh you might be getting the
the seeds the seeds yeah the seeds it is a little bit spicy
but it's such a weird combination i really didn't think that it would taste good but it's actually
really delicious and now the spice kicks in as well spiciness achieved all right guys
we want to give you an idea of what it looks like right now on monte casino here in sopot
check it out it's absolutely beautiful right now today is friday the 8th of july check it out
there's the oldest pub in sopot apparently interesting
How old is the oldest pub in Sopot
yeah that's actually interesting is it an achievement or is it just like you know a pub
yeah i don't even know how old Sopot is it's probably relatively new
comparison to the rest of poland obviously
well yeah guys this is it this is monte casino july
2022 lots of beautiful restaurants amazing amazing place
definitely add sopot to your list if you haven't been here already it's well well worth
checking out and probably actually certainly ranks as one of our favorite places that we've seen so
far here in poland sopot got its city rights in 1901 according to wikipedia so wow not that young
that is young that is actually really young when you put into perspective like a lot
of european cities are older than a thousand years and so 1901 that's a young city wow very
beautiful nonetheless though there's plenty of things to do there's so many tourists around
we have heard basically nothing but english since we arrived here obviously plenty of polish people
are here as well on their holidays but we did hear plenty of english as well and surprisingly quite
a bit of scandinavian languages as well yeah we noticed that as soon as we kind of entered
Gdańsk so like the dance area and here in Sopot as well you do find kind of like norwegian people
swedish people danish people and which is super interesting because you don't really
see that anywhere else in europe that much yeah there's probably like
an easy access boat or ferry from the scandinavian countries down here to beautiful sopot
so if you ever in the north of poland make sure to include
sopot on your travel list absolutely it is a must visit destination in the tri-cities
right now anyways we're back in Gdańsk and we're going to go and have ourselves some dinner
so that's all from us today my name is luke my name is naomi we are the two mad explorers and
this is your reminder to keep exploring see you guys in the next video thanks for watching ciao