Odkrywamy Tajemnice Najdzikszej Rzeki Polski! Trójstyk granic na Bugu – Odcinek 7

Odkrywamy Tajemnice Najdzikszej Rzeki Polski! Trójstyk granic na Bugu – Odcinek 7

Welcome to another episode of Europe’s last wild river. In previous episodes, you could see the eastern reaches of Poland, rarely visited by tourists. From the Bieszczady Mountains on the Boga River in Dorochusko. In this video, we’ll take you to a picturesque section of the Lublin Pole on the Boga River and the tripoint of the borders of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. Along the way, local legends, mysterious places, and wildlife await us . We invite you to kayak and set off on the Boga River. First of all, I’d like to thank all the patrons of this channel. It’s thanks to you that films like this one can be made. We now reach the village of Chniszów. It was once famous for mining bog iron ore, but there’s also an oak tree here. The Bolko Oak, the largest oak in the Lublin Voivodeship, is about 1.5 km from the river, so if you manage to find a way to get to the riverbank, you ‘ll have to take a walk. Here, too, there was a manor house on the Bug River itself, which hasn’t survived like most in this region, but a park has survived, and one of the oldest trees in Poland remains. Dombolo is estimated to be over 1,000 years old. According to local legend, its name comes from the fact that King Bolesław the Brave rested under this oak when he marched with his troops on Kiev. But the oak was actually named Bolko in 1886, in memory of the brother of the owner of Chniszów, Bolesław Trzebiński. Many monumental trees remain in the manor park. There are visible avenues, such as the maple avenue here. There, along the main road, is the still-preserved Chestnut avenue. It’s a great place to relax by the Bug River , and once a year, a festival called Bolkowanie takes place here. A manor house was built here in the 15th century, but it was destroyed during World War I. The owners then rebuilt it in wooden form, but after World War II it was taken over by the state treasury, and the decaying manor was finally demolished. Today, only trees have gone wild. It’s clear that a nature trail was created here some time ago. Unfortunately, the signs are no longer legible. There were even photos. You could see what the sack once looked like. In the bushes is another clearing with another large oak tree. Overall, if you’re looking for a quiet spot for a campfire or picnic by the Bug River , I do n’t think you’ve found a better one yet. It’s a truly wonderful place. We have benches and a fire pit. Nothing to do but pitch a tent. This park boasts nine monumental oaks, the largest of which, Bolko, has a trunk circumference of almost 9 meters. Our next stop is Ukrusk. In this village, there’s, of course, a church, an Orthodox church, but we’re interested in the manor house. In the overgrown park, there’s another manor house. This one has survived. Today, it’s a ruin. The park is heavily overgrown and fenced. It was hard to get through the nettles, but we finally made it. This manor house was lucky enough to have survived to this day. And today, it presents such a picture of misery and despair. I see you can go inside , so we’ll see what’s hidden here. The manor house is still in quite good condition, considering the type of buildings in the area. After World War II, it housed an agricultural experiment facility at the neighboring Agricultural University of Lublin, which was run by the Agricultural University of Lublin. You can see there were some beds here. Perhaps students were just arriving for internships. The floor is already falling apart. The palace dates back to the 19th century. You’re probably wondering why it’s in such a state. Well, in the 1990s, when these Agricultural University of Lublin farms could be bought for pennies, some company bought it, and one of them probably owns the place now. The manor house was, of course, sold along with the entire Agricultural University. The new owner didn’t renovate it, because it would have been quite expensive, as it’s a listed building. Everything would have had to be done according to the conservator’s recommendations. The state farm is still operating, some crops are being grown there, and the manor is falling into disrepair. The monumental trees can still be cut down and sold for a good price. And besides, as you can see, everything is on the way. Unlike other abandoned palaces you might have seen in this series of films, this one is probably in one of the best condition. All the windows are there. As you can see, there’s still a lot of equipment, even some scrap. That’s probably because there’s an active state farm nearby. There are also apartment buildings around where people live. Right now, everyone’s enjoying alcohol because it’s Friday, and it would be hard for a stranger to take anything. Of course, any items of value were probably sold by the locals long ago. The manor itself is still intact. And we even have access to a balcony. Everything here is practically buckling underfoot. The building is in danger of collapsing, so I don’t recommend anyone entering such places. As you can see, the ceilings are collapsing, and not even the iceboat was stolen, which is truly unusual. There are still plaques next to some rooms . The Institute for Animal Production Technology. The room of the pig breeding team. Pigs were raised here. Did a human body ever sit here? This was probably some kind of laboratory. Well, no reagents have survived. Another room belonged to the sheep breeding team. Working in a place like this must have been fun. This park used to be well-maintained. You could smoke a cigarette on such a beautiful balcony. And now it’s all overgrown. It’s a shame, because another beautiful Polish monument is falling into disrepair. And no one will do anything about it. Until it collapses. The government should take such buildings back. If the owner hasn’t done anything about it for decades, they probably won’t. And we were scared because from a distance in the darkness it looked like some alien from outer space, and here these beautiful mushrooms had grown. Maybe there was also a mushroom breeding institute here and it escaped. This is the first time I’ve seen anything like this, and it even smells like this here. Something like the smell of porcini mushrooms. There are refrigerators and curtains everywhere. Really. I’m curious about one more thing. Look, on the Polish side , practically the entire time we’re sailing, there are reed beds and nettles two or three meters high, and it ‘s practically impossible to get out. On the Ukrainian side, however, there are many nice beaches and gentle shores. The nature there is completely different. The fact that there’s this system, or what you might call a large reserve today, is that this strip of land was cleared. There’s no farming here along the Bug River, so it ‘s all wild. Nobody mows it, nobody grazes cows here. And yet, it all looks much better and more natural. There are no reed beds. Look, the left side, the right side, and it’s like that practically all the time. Only here, in the field, are there some small beaches. I think it might be a fertilization problem. However, on our side, a lot of different fertilizers are spread on the surrounding fields, and perhaps that’s what ‘s causing the reed beds and nettles to grow so quickly. Cows probably don’t graze here on the meadows along the Bug River anymore, but on the other side, they don’t graze either, so it’s strange. If anyone has an interesting theory on this, I invite you to discuss. We’ve finally reached the first resort town on the Bug River. Wola Uchruska is a typical summer resort. Here, in the oxbow lake of the Bug River, a beautiful beach has been created. There’s a swimming area, space for camping, pitching a tent, or parking a camper, toilets, a playing field, some benches, and a playground for children. The summer infrastructure is complete. The town itself also boasts a number of agritourism farms and guesthouses, so you can even come here for a longer stay. I see a lot of anglers fishing here, and all this infrastructure is located on a beach called Pompka. Where does this strange name come from? This used to be a water pumping station for the brick railway tower, a kilometer away. It’s also worth strolling around the train station to see the historic pre-World War II building and the railway tower itself. In the park by the station, you can also find some very interesting wooden sculptures. In fact, they’re even here on the beach, as an annual open-air sculpture event is held there. This is why new, fascinating sculptures are constantly being created, depicting a truly diverse range of figures, from mythological figures to local heroes. The village developed in the 19th century when the Nadburzanka glassworks was established, which unfortunately no longer exists. The construction of the earlier railway line also had a significant impact on the village’s development. The Hełm Brzeźć railway line, which is also closed today because the bridge over the Bug River near Włodawa has been destroyed since the end of World War II. It’s 15 degrees Celsius here, as is typical in Poland. It’s a shame, because it’s finally the first place on the Bug where you can actually swim. There’s sand. There’s no mud, and you could wash up, as visibility in this water is over 5 cm, as it used to be. It’s beautiful. I’d love to come here for a longer break, but you have to go further. A well-traveled kayaking trail also begins from Wola Uchruska. The landings on the Bug River are better maintained here. There are benches, fire pits, and camping spots. It’s not as overgrown as it used to be, so it’s clear that someone is already using it. There are many companies offering kayaking trips on the Bug in this area, so you can also go. And we reach the village of Zberza. Since the 1990s, there have been plans to build a bridge over the Boga River to the village of Adamczółki, which is on the other side. This village would truly thrive thanks to this border crossing, as on the other side lies the Shatsk National Park, the Shatsk Lake District, and the famous Lake Svitas, one of Ukraine’s largest lakes. Our white lake here, in the Okinonka river near Svitas, looks like a tiny puddle. This lake is a tourist center for the Ukrainian poet Volhynia. There are numerous recreation centers there. The water is crystal clear, but that’s a topic for another film, of course. The whole other side of the Bug River. And it’s clear that due to the current political situation, this crossing is unlikely to be built. It ‘s not even about the fact that, although we are now Ukraine’s greatest brothers and should build them this bridge, it’s very close from here— a dozen or so kilometers, maybe even less, as the crow flies—to the border with Belarus. And this entire area is now militarized and mined on the Ukrainian side. There are plenty of barbed wire there, so in such a situation , no one would want to send Poles across the border. But who knows, perhaps one day the geopolitical situation in the region will surely change, and they’ll finally reach an agreement on the other side, and this crossing will be built here. It would be a very good move for tourism in the region. Consider that Włodawa, the largest district town on the border, is probably over 70 km, if not more, to the nearest border crossing with Ukraine, as the crossing in Dorochuckusk only handles freight traffic. So if someone from Włodawa wants to go to Lake Świtać, which is probably 15 km away, less than 15 km as the crow flies, they’ll actually have to make a detour of around 200 km. That’s ridiculous. The same goes for Belarus. If we want to travel to Tomaszówka, the nearest town, we also have to cover a lot of kilometers through Terespol Brest. Apparently, we’ll have to wait a few more days at the border there, because there are such long queues right now. Well, it’s a sad situation, but what’s happening at the border is a topic for a separate video. You’ll also find one on this channel. The same services that are here on the river are very nice and don’t cause any problems. I don’t know what’s going on at the border crossings. It’s as if they want to discourage people from traveling east. The next town we reach is Wołczyny. It’s a tiny village that ‘s practically deserted. There are only a dozen or so houses here. Most seem to be summer cottages for wealthy Warsaw residents. And there seem to be very few permanent residents left. But it looks as if time has stood still here. All the houses are wooden, and beautiful flowers grow all around. If you’re looking for those villages on the Bug River, where time has stood still, Wołczyny is worth a visit. It looks amazing here. The road is clear. Fortunately, no one has paved the road, and there are rows of cottages on both sides. Some are abandoned and overgrown, some are clearly being spruced up by some wealthy doctors and lawyers, but you can feel like you’re in a former village on the Bug River. And if you want to see what life was like in these areas a hundred years ago, I recommend a trip to the Open-Air Museum in Lublin, where there’s an entire area dedicated to the Bug River villagers. We’ll never see that again on the Bug River. We stopped here briefly on the bank, and immediately there was a problem. A local kayaking company arrived with several dozen kayaks and told us to get out of the meadow, because they’d be unloading here. A huge meadow, several hectares in size. They had to unload the kayaks right where we wanted to have a picnic. Typical Polish rudeness, boorishness, right? They probably weren’t happy with us using our own kayaks, not renting them. And from this point on, as you can see, we’re already in the crowds, because this is currently the most popular part of the kayaking trail on the Bug River, considering the entire border section, due to its proximity to Lake Białe in Wokuninka. This is the largest tourist destination in eastern Poland, I’d even go so far as to say. And certainly in the Lublin region. Tens of thousands of tourists come there on weekends, maybe even hundreds. I made a separate video about the lake itself, because what happens there deserves a story of its own. I really recommend watching Sodom and Gomorrah in one word. But getting back to the Bug, from what I remember, prices here start at around 70 złoty per person, starting from the route from Wouczyn to the tripoint. We won’t see such a wild Bug because of the crowds. This is the most commercial section, but I hope it will be wild again after the tripoint, because people are afraid to swim there. And along the way, many guards warned us, as we slept in these strange spots along the Bug, that we definitely wouldn’t go any further than the tripoint because there were a lot of engineers, doctors, and so on. They were swimming, that god. It’s very dangerous. There are noises, there are rumors. And so it became, shall we say, scary, because we started to worry that they wouldn’t let us go there and that our whole planned route would be ruined. But I called Włodawa, and a nice lady there told me we could definitely sail. Intercultural integration is encouraged, so we’re off. Everything’s already been reported. We still have about two hours to the tripoint, and then we’ll enter the border area with Belarus. And this is where things should start to get interesting. The village of Sobibur, located on the Bug River, is world-famous for the German extermination camp that was located here during World War II. However, the camp is located about 5 km from the river itself. In the village itself, aside from a few old cottages and a rather interesting art installation, there’s not much to see. In Sobibór, someone built this installation on the main road. Polonez bikes like these used to be parked along Polish roads in the 1990s. It’s clearly homemade. But it works, because people actually slow down here and maybe stop by the shop next door. If you want to visit the camp, you must go to the forest settlement of Sobibur Station, as the Germans located the extermination camp in a difficult-to-access area surrounded on all sides by swamps and forests. The German extermination camp in Sobibór operated from May 1942, and according to estimates, up to 300,000 Jews were murdered there. It is also the only German extermination camp where a successful uprising and escape by prisoners employed there took place . On October 14, 1943, approximately 300 prisoners escaped from here. However, historians estimate that only a maximum of 70 survived World War II. After this escape, the Germans decided to liquidate the camp and erase all traces. For several years, a modern museum has been operating there , with admission completely free. The original railway ramp, station building, and several other wooden buildings that survived the war also remain in Sobibór . The history of the camp itself, however, is so long and interesting that it will be the subject of a separate video, which will appear on my second channel, “Na tropie historii,” which I also cordially invite you to subscribe to and follow. The Sobibór area is surrounded by vast forest complexes. Therefore, the Sobibór Landscape Park was established here, the most interesting part of which is the Żuwiebłota reserve. As you can already deduce from the name, this place Mud turtles live here, and it’s the largest habitat for this reptile in our country. So if you want to see a mud turtle, it’s worth heading to Sobibór Landscape Park, as this is where you have the best chance of doing so. And so we finally reach one of the most interesting places on the route: the tripoint between the borders of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. To the right, you can already see border security. On the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, you can see posts. Their monument, this monolith of a tripoint. There are some kind of polyamide here. As we enter the Polish-Belarusian section of the Bug River, the posts begin. Cameras are mounted on the posts. These posts are placed about every 50 meters. Just last year, trees didn’t grow here, just like on the previous section. As you can see, they’ve been cut down. About 30 meters from the river. Everything has been cut down, and posts have been erected here. Of course, nature will quickly recover. I saw photos of what it looked like in winter, when it was freshly cleared. Many people protested here that nature had been destroyed. Well , it was, but nature regenerates quickly, especially in such an area. The trees may not be regenerating quickly, but as you can see, the reeds have already grown over and everything is green. There’s not even a trace of the devastation that occurred here last year. And the so-called electronic barrier seems to be working now. There are cameras here, maybe some sensors, and engineers from Belarus won’t be able to get through here so easily . There’s also a kayak launching point at the tri-junction. Not right at the tri-junction, but about 100 meters away. We can walk right onto the shore here. There’s a shelter, a military structure that protects us from gunfire. On the other hand, if anyone were to attack us here , by god, new military units have been opened along the border, which weren’t there three years ago, so you can see that our eastern border is becoming increasingly militarized, and it’s defended. This tri-junction used to be right here. This monolith was right here. It was a conventional location. I see it’s now been moved to where it should actually be. And here we have the slabs; you can step out for a moment, so let’s go out and see what it looks like from the shore. This is what the tripoint looks like from the landward side. You can get here by car, bike, or even walk from Orchówek. This should be reported to the Border Guard. And along the Bug River, we can also see such horns in many places. At first glance , it might seem like something to sleep on, and that’s what I thought. It probably cost tens of thousands of złoty per horn, maybe even hundreds. They built something like this, and supposedly if we stick our heads in from that side, we’ll hear what’s happening in Belarus better. I don’t know, I can’t hear anything there anyway , because I tried. To me, it’s a misuse of public funds. Well , there was a project, some money from the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine project, and someone came up with the idea of ​​erecting these horns that would attract tourists from all over Poland. If anyone has ever come to this area for this horn, please leave a comment. I’d love to hear how effective it is. This tripoint used to be, probably up until last year, right where the horn was, with a pole there, and bushes here. Since the bushes have been cut down for new poles, the tripoint was moved. It’s a strange change of location, but it changed the location exactly to where it should be, where the three borders actually meet. Well, before, it was a fake tripoint, let’s say conventional, because the actual one was still about 200 or 300 meters away. And now we have the proper tripoint. You can see there’s a new gazebo, a place to park your bike, and we even have stone chairs you can sit on. There’s also a table, and that pole has just been moved here. That’s probably how it should look. I see that every country here has the same pole. There’s a Belarusian one, and there a Ukrainian one. Ukraine has completely fenced itself off. They have this promontory here between Ukraine and Belarus. That overgrown ditch is the Mościcki Canal. The Belarusian-Ukrainian border runs through this canal . You can’t really see it because it’s overgrown. The Ukrainian border. It cuts into a triangle. The entire triangle has been cordoned off, as if it were a truly strategic object. We also have a board here showing all the tripoints of the Polish border, and there are six of them, four on the eastern border. Some people collect these places and try to visit each one. A moment ago, we encountered two military patrols here, a few minutes apart. While one looked normal, guys like oaks, the other looked like a grandmother with a nerdy, computer-savvy grandson. If an engineer were to jump out of the bushes, it could end badly, and probably not for the engineer. The Ukrainians have invested heavily in protecting their border with Belarus. There’s a lot of barbed wire there. Previously, there were also dragon’s teeth, a concrete anti-tank barrier, a few hundred meters away . And in between, there must be minefields, because there are some here, because they are. Oh, and we have a notification here. We can hear sirens from the other side. I have an Air Alarm app that tells me when there’s a bombing raid in Ukraine. I’m currently set to the Volyn region, which is on the other side, and an alert has been issued for that region. There are signs warning about minefields right there, between the dragon’s teeth and the barbed wire , so maybe the mines are there. Right now, there’s probably no threat from Belarus, but years ago, it was very real. They feared an attack could come from here, heading towards Szack or Łódź. Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and let’s hope those barriers will never be needed again. There ‘s also a ruined building by the road. I’m guessing it was a water pumping station. There was a water intake here from the Bug River, and they probably pumped water from there to the tannery. The process of tanning leather requires a lot of water, so it was best to get it directly from the Bug River. The moment we reached the tripoint of the border with Belarus, the marker number reset, and we started again from number 001. And the last marker on the Polish-Ukrainian border had the number, if I remember correctly, 1083. Many guards along the way told us we couldn’t paddle here, that we wouldn’t get a permit. There are also many comments and opinions online that paddling is off-limits on this section because it’s too dangerous, with the military stationed there. As you can see, it’s possible. We got the permit without a problem. Of course, we just have to report where we’re paddling, when we’re finishing our trip, and so on. I think they’re watching us here, so there’s no real danger. Will we encounter any engineers along the way? I don’t know. If so, I’ll record it and show you, but for now, there’s nothing to worry about. This section probably won’t be crowded anymore, because people are afraid to swim here. Will we encounter any Belarusian soldiers? I don’t know, we’ll see. I can only summarize the entire Ukrainian section: we only encountered one Ukrainian patrol along the entire several-mile stretch from Gołębi right here to the Orchovka tripoint. They don’t patrol much there either. Maybe, or probably do, but they have the system, so they can do it a little further from the Bog, where the fence is. They’re also setting up a lot of these camera towers. They have an eye on it. There’s also a fence everywhere, barbed wire along the Bug River to prevent Ukrainian geroj from escaping to Poland. I don’t think it’s as easy to cross the river now as it was three years ago, when there were practically no security measures here. Now, maybe not so much that you can’t slip through, because they’re somehow getting through, but I think that at least on the Ukrainian side, you have to bribe someone to get through. When I asked our border guard how it’s possible that they keep crossing here, and you have to catch them, well, that was obviously off camera. He told me they pay Ukrainian border guards and they somehow let them through the fence. And then the Poles have to catch them. That’s how it works in Ukraine. Corruption, and everything can be arranged if you have enough money. Well, I don’t blame the guys, because to save your life, you’ll give up any money, just to avoid going to war, not getting killed. If you don’t feel If you want to do this, you won’t be a soldier by force. They’ll give someone a uniform, a rifle, and send them to a training ground—there’s little use for such a soldier anyway. After reaching the border section with Belarus, you’ll notice some changes. There’s definitely more greenery here, whereas the Ukrainian section was dominated by, you could say, various kinds of meadows, steppes. Yes, there are bushes here, still bushes, and leafy trees, of course. And so we’re sailing down a river, I don’t know, maybe three, maybe four kilometers, on the section with Belarus, and there were probably a hundred of these posts here, maybe even better. Some even have seven cameras, so a mouse wouldn’t slip by. And who’s watching all this? I think there are hundreds of cameras per kilometer here, so you’d have to employ, I don’t know, an entire Indian city to monitor it. So maybe there’s some artificial intelligence system tracking traffic. Because it’s impossible for a person to manage enough cameras to see everything, not to miss anything, like someone crossing this river. And looking at all this, I have certain concerns that we might have a shortage of engineers and doctors in Poland right now, because it will be difficult for them to cross here. Even if someone were to enter the river before crossing it, whether by kayak or by swim, the guards would be on the shore within five, I think 10 minutes . Just like we’d make overnight stops in various places, that was usually the time from pulling the kayak ashore to the moment the guards arrived. Unless I called first and said we’d be sleeping there, there were places where there was no signal and it was impossible to report it, so we had to wait until they arrived. Oh, and here, on the right, we have a so-called podrzutówka ( fishing net). There’s a town called Tomaszówka nearby, so someone comes here and fishes. You can see it’s a real gem. There’s even a shelter there . Oh, and there’s another fishing spot. And they fish for this kind of thing here. To summarize the Ukrainian section, we only encountered civilians once, and that was near the Blue Orthodox Church. There was a spot where a few anglers were fishing, and they were basically the only people we encountered on the Ukrainian side. Well , apart from one military patrol. It’s clear that Ukrainians, residents of Ukraine, don’t have access to the Bug River like we do, and that we can fish here in Poland. Well, maybe I don’t know if there were hundreds, but there were definitely dozens of anglers we encountered along the entire route. If we report this, we can bring a fishing rod. Of course, fishing from boats or nets is prohibited here , as both Ukrainians and Poles do on the other side. The same system applies here too. What it looks like from the other side? I have no idea if the fence is still there. We reach another interesting spot. A few kilometers beyond the tripoint is the remains of a 19th-century railway bridge on the Helm-Brest line, so aside from some protruding poles, nothing seems to have survived here. On the left, the Polish side now shows a post standing at the end of the railway embankment. The tracks here seem to have been dismantled, even the end, and you can walk from Orchówka along that embankment to this spot, if anyone wants to see. And on the other side, you can also see the remains of the embankment. There’s a Belarusian post somewhere there. Well, not much remains. The water has actually increased over the last two days, but I think two days ago, more would have been visible here. This line is currently unusable because it ends here in Okoninka, now that it’s summer. They only ran some weekend rail buses for the summer, so you could get from the helmet to the White Lake, but normally this line is unused, so if this bridge were rebuilt, we would have a beautiful connection to Brest this way. This line here on the Belarusian side is still in use. From the village of Tomaszówka we can get to Brest, and the only thing missing is this one bridge, and I’m surprised that for so many years, in 1945, when we were great friends, he took it down. Somehow, it didn’t get in the way of the Soviet authorities. Just like the road bridge in Włodawa. Well, now we have the situation we have. So you know why we went to Belarus. But just a few years ago, I want to remind you that we were a great friend of Belarus. If you see all these installations here, some gazebos, those strange wooden trumpets that stand above the Bug River, yes, each one has a sign saying “Joint Project Poland Belarus,” so the EU also poured a lot of money into improving some infrastructure in Belarus. Here, we also had a partnership like the one with Ukraine now, and suddenly all this was put on the road. This situation probably won’t last forever, and someday someone might revisit this topic to build a road connection, at least, because Włodawa looks very strange with that bridge, or that road that ends where the bridge doesn’t exist. And so we reached Orchówek. The Bog River used to flow right by the village, near the church, but the riverbed has changed over the years, and today, from here to the village, it’s probably 800 meters, according to the sign, so we’ll launch our kayak somewhere in these reeds. According to the map, there’s a professional launching site here. As you can see, there are reeds, because no one has been sailing here for several years. But no matter. And today we’re sleeping in Orchówek. It might be hard to believe, but Orchówek was once a town. Situated at the confluence of the Bug and Włodawka rivers, it lay on the border between Poland and Lithuania during the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A customs house was located here, allowing the town to develop. Unfortunately, it was unlucky, repeatedly burned, destroyed, and pillaged by various armies that passed through this area. Today, the only reminder of its former glory is a late Baroque church, situated right on the Bug’s oxbow lake. In Orchówek, near the Old River, there’s a beautiful campsite. It’s called a pickling facility because the tradition of pickling cucumbers in the Bug River has existed in this area for hundreds of years, but it didn’t develop on an industrial scale until the 1960s . A wooden pickling facility was erected where the tourist shelter now stands . This location housed only barrels for pickles, but every year these barrels were filled with cucumbers and sunk into the Bug River. To prevent them from floating away with the river’s current, pine poles were driven into the river, keeping the barrels in one place. Apparently, in those years, the water was crystal clear, and these cucumbers were later sold at markets and in shops throughout the Włodawa County. The Polish section of the Hełm-Wrześć railway line now ends just beyond the railway crossing in Warrchówek. If you follow these tracks, you’ll come to a ruined railway bridge. The tracks themselves end here after just 100 meters, and we can continue along the embankment. Later, the road leads along the embankment. Orchówek was once famous for its tanneries. There were huge leather factories here. All of that, of course , has fallen into disrepair. Today, the factory is abandoned. In recent years, some packaging factories were still located here . But today, it’s all falling into ruin. The tannery itself, and later the packaging factories, were closed due to pollution. You can see that this place was still operating in 2017. A document hangs here from that year. It retains a distinct communist-era atmosphere. There’s even an old computer. There was also a cabinet with keys, which have all disappeared. We have a calendar here from 2019, so the factory must have been operating then, but it was a porter’s lodge, so it was probably the last gasp of the plant, meaning it’s been abandoned for about six years. Many people have questioned me, asking why I, for example, wouldn’t share certain locations I show in my films. And that’s precisely why. Look at what’s happened here over the past six years. And many people have sworn in the comments that Poles don’t steal, that I’m judging Poles negatively. Perhaps it was stolen and destroyed by dwarves. Or perhaps Ukrainians passing by, or God forbid, Belarusians, who are destroying these kinds of facilities. And generally, it stinks here. The tanneries used to stink. That hasn’t been operational for a long time, so it’s probably not the stench from the tanneries, but rather the smell of excrement. Perhaps it’s a sewage treatment plant somewhere back there. The tannery in Warchówek was built in 1972. The Nadburzany tannery in the forest began producing secondary leather in March 1986. However, it couldn’t withstand the brutal capitalism of the 1990s, and the entire production collapsed. In its heyday, it was one of the largest plants of its kind in Poland, employing over 1,000 people. Until the construction of a treatment plant, sewage was discharged directly into the river. Nobody cared about this back then. However, history repeated itself, and a few years ago, a paper mill operating on the site polluted the river again. Today, the place presents a typically apocalyptic landscape, somewhat reminiscent of the Ukrainian Prypiat. At the end of the film, we’ll change the atmosphere for a moment. A few kilometers from Orchówek and the Boga River lies Lake Białe. It’s the largest resort and party spot in eastern Poland. Also called the Polish Ibiza or the Mielno of the East. During the day, the lake beaches fill with crowds of people eager to escape the mundane, and the lake attracts vacationers from all over Poland with its clear waters and extensive tourist infrastructure. In the evenings, Okuninka’s discos and bars fill with throngs of thrill-seeking partygoers seeking unbridled entertainment. Alcohol flows freely, and corpses litter the streets. There’s something for everyone here. After the madness of a midsummer night, it’s time to get back in the kayak and head out again . But that’s a story for another video. Thank you for watching this video to the end, and as always, I invite you to share your impressions in the comments and give us a thumbs up. In the next episode, we head through Władysławowo to Terespol, along the border with Belarus, under the watchful eye of the new electronic barrier that protects our country from chocolate engineers and doctors. See you in the next video. Bye.

Zapraszamy na wyjątkową podróż kajakiem rzeką Bug po wschodniej granicy Polski. Bug to ostatnia dzika rzeka Europy, oferująca niesamowite krajobrazy i kontakt z dziką przyrodą. Na odcinku od Gołębi do Gnojna rzeka stanowi wschodnią granicę Polski i Unii Europejskiej, przez co aby odbyć taką podróż należy się do niej odpowiednio przygotować i przestrzegać wyznaczonych zasad.

W tym filmie przemierzymy odcinek rzeki od miejscowości Świerże w powiecie Chełmskim do trójstyku granic Polski, Ukrainy i Białorusi w Orchówku.

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Rozdziały:
00:00 Wstęp
01:05 Hniszów – Dąb Bolko
03:37 Uhrusk – opuszczony pałac
09:10 Wola Uhruska – wypoczynkowa miejscowość nad Bugiem
11:42 Zbereże – miejsce planowanego mostu na Bugu
14:18 Wołczyny – nadbużańska wioska
17:56 Sobibór – niemiecki obóz zagłady oraz rezerwat żółwiowe błota
20:38 Orchówek – trójstyk granic Polski – Ukrainy – Białorusi
30:10 Bariera elektroniczna przy rzece Bug
32:48 Orchówek – wysadzony most kolejowy na Bugu
35:25 Orchówek – dawne miasto nadbużańskie, kiszarnia ogórków i opuszczona garbarnia
39:58 Okuninka – Jezioro Białe – wakacyjny kurort polski wschodniej
40:55 W następnym odcinku

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