I left Warsaw early one morning and mid day I had arrived to beautiful Gdansk!

I had asked my friend Martha from Warsaw if Gdansk was worth and she said "absolutely" and as soon as I arrived in the city and saw the beautiful station I knew I was in for a treat!

Gdansk is a very important city in Poland and even more important in history because it was in Gdansk where World War II actually began. Gdansk was an independent state and a very important international location for trading, they defied Hitler and becoming part of third reich  so of course Hitler did what he knew what to do best... attacked!

The people from Gdansk didn't go down peacefully; actually, in the post office in Gdansk there were 50 post worker Poles who fought and fought and fought for 17 hours until the building started to collapse and the Germans started to shoot and pretty much WWII began.

Gdansk was pretty badly destroyed during war but thankfully there were enough documents and pictures to be able to reconstruct and make it look just like it did before war.

During my time in Gdansk I pretty much walked around town admiring the architecture and the beauty of the place.

Gdansk is known for its Amber so it was really funny to walk around town and see a lot of people digging in a small pond; I had no idea what they were doing but it turns out that the town changes the rocks inside the pond and they can actually find small pieces of amber!

I arrived in Gdansk on a sunday and it was a little hard to appreciate the town because it was crowded! People were truly everywhere, there was even loud techno music with a dj playing right in the middle of the main street and teenagers were dancing and throwing colored powder on each other. Somehow, this beautiful old town didn't quite go so well with the chaos of the town happening that day.

In order to compensate for the big crowds on sunday I decided that Gdansk was really worth waking up at 4:30am to see it a little bit more quiet so tripod in hand I went to check out quiet Gdansk... and it was BEYOND MAGICAL!

My first stop was at the river and at that time of the day the reflection was just so cool! The water was calm, no boats on sight, therefore it was the perfect time to just sit and enjoy how clear you could actually see the city in the water!

I thought I was so lucky to be able to enjoy quite a nice view! It kind of reminded me of Copenhagen!

This is how the river looks during the day when the tourists are around:

From the river I went into the old town and it was so so so different, it actually was enjoyable to be there and not have to push yourself through the crowds!