• Located up in the mountains in the southwest corner of Poland, very close to the Czech border, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Jelenia Gora.
• "Whoever has been to the Karkonosze Mountains should mostcertainly admit that the Small Pond (Maly Staw) Cirque belongs to their most beatiful spots. On this very mountain lake, where the forest gives way to the dwarf pine, there stands one of the oldest hostels in the Polish Mountains called SAMOTNIA (Secluded Place). Some consider it quite rightly to be a pearl among Lower Silesia's chalets."