Siedlisko Wiłkupie

I invite you to Siedlisko at the end of the road. Our two houses stand by 3 ponds. The House on the Hill, exclusively for 9 people, and the House on the Pond, with two apartments (with separate entrances): Sunny on the ground floor for 7 people and Studio in the attic for 5 people. The houses are several hundred meters apart, because the area around us is large. Over 10 hectares of unfenced meadows, forests and water. The house on the hill has a fence around its garden and outbuildings and creates such a cozy homestead. From the terrace there is a beautiful view of the countryside and the sunset. In winter, when the panoramas are not covered by trees, the landscape stretches from the terrace for several kilometers. Then you can even admire the lake. In the yard there is a place for a bonfire, a sandpit. The house has: - A spacious, sunny living room with a fireplace and a seating area and 3 beds 90 cm wide (in the configuration: 3 single beds or a double bed and a single bed). - Two bedrooms can be accessed directly from the living room, the first of which has a view of the garden, while the windows of the second one overlook the terrace and the many-kilometre-long landscape behind it, giving a sense of intimacy and closeness to nature. The first bedroom has a sofa bed, while the second has two single beds, 90 cm wide. - There is a bathroom with a shower. - There is a kitchen with a dining room. - There are tiled stoves and a fireplace that give a lot of heat. - There is also electric heating. The house by the pond is divided into two apartments: Sunny with a terrace. The one-story, 100-meter apartment is called sunny for a reason - the windows overlook the four sides of the world, from which you can see both the multitude of colors in the rose garden and the blue water of the pond located several meters away. At your disposal is: - a large kitchen with a dining room, - a bathroom with a bathtub, - two bedrooms, - a living room with a fireplace. The apartment can accommodate up to 7 people - in the first bedroom there is a double bed, in the second a bunk bed for 3 people (length 180cm) and a double sofa bed. The apartment includes a terrace overlooking the pond. Attic studio for 5 people with a beautiful view of the pond. The studio is an open space with: - Living area with a sofa bed and two armchairs and a fireplace. - Relaxation area with a double bed and a single bed. - A kitchenette with a fridge, an induction hob and a dishwasher, as well as a dining table. - Bathroom with shower.

Both the house and the apartments have their own kitchens. Be sure to take an interest in the goods of the region. On the plot next to us, a neighbor has beehives, so you can buy great honey from him. And 700 meters from us, Mrs Sołtyska has an ecological farm where she makes Wijzna rennet cheese, bakes delicious bread, has fresh eggs and milk. When it comes to shopping, it's a must there. In the summer season we have herbs near the house - you can pick. We also have an orchard with plums, cherries, raspberries, Kamchatka berries, blueberries, currants - you can use them.

In summer we have a lot of water, in winter a lot of snow (usually). We also have great conditions for cycling and canoeing (Czarna Hańcza). We have 2 bikes on site and you can rent them, but if you want to ride the whole group, take your own equipment as well. You can do much more by kayaking than Czarna Hańcza. You can go down the Szeszupa River, and then through the following lakes: Gulbin, Okrągłe, Krejwelek, Przechodnie, Postawelek, and finish the route on Lake Pobondzie. If you want more, you can sail from Pobondzie to Rutka Tartak, then Wiżajny, Potopy, Poszeszupie and so you can reach the border. Why do we need a lot of snow in the Suwałki Region? Because this land far to the north is shaped like the Bieszczady Mountains, only with a lot of lakes. We have great sledding hills, we have a nice ski station 30 km from Siedlisko (Szelment). Our Habitat is located at the end of the road and at the end of a micro village (52 inhabitants). We do not have a neighbor within a radius of 1 km, so you can feel like in the middle of nowhere. However, we have 3 ponds - two swimming ponds with piers and one fishing pond. Swimming ponds are assigned to houses, because each house has its own. They have safe bottoms and gentle and shallow descents. You can jump from the piers, because in the middle they reach a depth of up to 6 m. There is a swing/bench by the pond, so you can also admire the sunset from there and read books, and we have a lot of those at home. The third pond is the fish one. So if you are fishing, you can wait for carp, rudd, roach, grass carp, silver carp in silence. If after the Czarna Hańcza rafting, diving in Lake Hańcza (16 km) and splashing around in our ponds, you don't have enough water, you can go for a walk (300 m) to Lake Wiżajny. So close, it's only for a walk, because the shore is not developed and instead of the beach you will meet calaraki there. You have to drive 3.5 km to Wiżajny to the beach. You can also take advantage of a unique "treatment", i.e. rest in our neighbor's apitherapy house. The therapy consists in inhaling the air from the hives, which comes out of them into the room where the human is staying. An additional advantage is the possibility of being surrounded by so many bees, which would not normally be possible. In the house, thanks to the bees, energy beneficial for humans is released, and the air is ionized. For mushrooms, you basically just have to bend down, you don't have to go anywhere far. A dozen or so minutes' drive from the house, Rowelska Góra rises - the highest peak in the Podlaskie Voivodship (298.1 m above sea level). In the area of the hill there are turbines of the Wiżajny Wind Power Plant, and near the top there is an observation tower, from the top of which you can see, among others, church tower in the village of Liubavas (Lubawa). There you will also find the largest concentration of storks in the area. In the vicinity we also have Fujijama in Suwałki, i.e. Cisowa Góra, which resembles a volcano when viewed from a distance. This is another nearby viewpoint. In Smolniki (15 minutes by car) there is a vantage point to admire the panorama immortalized in Pan Tadeusz Wajda and the Issa Konwicki Valley. From a height of 225 m above sea level you will admire the north-eastern part of the Suwałki Landscape Park, the lakes: Kojle, Perty and Purwin, and in the distance the mountains: Jesionowa, Cisowa and Krzemieniucha. There are two railway bridges in Stańczyki, which are a section of the closed Gołdap - Żytkiejmy railway route (which is part of the section of the Chojnice - Vilnius main line). They are located on the Błędzianka River. They are 36.5 m high and are among the highest in Poland. The bridges are parallel to each other. Their architecture is reminiscent of the Roman aqueducts at Pont du Gard. In September, it is worth coming to the Jaćwieski Archaeological Festival. If you are interested in experimental archaeology, history, ancient cuisine, ethnographic shows and historical reconstructions, be sure to follow when exactly the festival will take place this year.