Sandbanks on the Vistula
Paddling with a canoe or a kayak is a pleasure in Poland great popularity. Many boat rental companies are often active on busy rivers. Many rivers in Poland, including large parts of the Vistula, are natural and only very little or not at all installed. Nevertheless, there are many old canals that connect different water sports areas with each other, for example in Masuria. As far as watercourses are protected as national parks, there are certain restrictions on water sports. As a rule, a permit must be obtained at the entrance to the national park.
Rivers
Kayaks on the Krutynia
Kayaks on the Brda
Kayaks in the Kashubia
Mountain rivers
- Vistula: the longest river in Poland is with the exception of a section between Auschwitz and Krakow in its upper and middle course natural and meanders comfortably over sandbanks in a charming landscape. From Włocławek the Vistula is then partially straightened and is used commercially for shipping. The Nogat estuary flows into the Fresh lagoonwhich is a beautiful kayak area
- Or: Starts in the Eastern Sudetes in the Czech Republic and flows through Poland into Szczecin Lagoon, which is also a beautiful kayak area
- Dunajec: Mountain river the Carpathians from the High Tatras
- Poprad: Carpathian mountain river from the High Tatras
- San: Mountain river the Forest Carpathians from the Bieszczady
- Queis: Mountain river the Sudeten from the Jizera Mountains
- Bober: Sudeten mountain river from the Jizera Mountains
- Glatzer Neisse: Mountain river of the Sudetes from the Glatzer snow mountains
- Nida: Mountain river of the Heiligkreuzgebirge
Lake districts
- Krutynia: probably the best known and most popular kayak tour in Poland west of the Great Masurian Lakes
- Masurian lakes: many of the lakes are connected by canals and rivers, so that an almost infinite water sports area is created
- Czarna Hańcza: one of the most popular kayaking tours in Poland east of the Great Masurian Lakes
- Augustów Canal: the continuation of the Czarna-Hańcza tour until after Belarus.
- Biebrza: can also be reached via the Augustów Canal, in its course as Biebrza National Park protected
- Narew: the continuation of the Biebrza route, partly as a Narew National Park protected
- Brda: flows through the Kashubian Lake District
- Wda: also flows through the Kashubian Lake District
- Radunia: also flows through the Kashubian Lake District
- Networks: flows through the Greater Poland Lake District
- Warta: flows through the Wielkopolska Lake District, partly as Warthe Estuary National Park protected
- Stumble: flows through the Pomeranian Lake District
- Wieprza: flows through the Pomeranian Lake District
- Drawa: flows through the Pomeranian Lake District
