Stara Buda

Welcome to Stara Buda, which used to be a people's home and then a school. Today it is a rural house in Podlasie, which we give a new life. It is surrounded by forests of the Błudowska Forest and almost 1.5 hectares of land with a garden and its numerous nooks and crannies. We have prepared a 70-meter apartment for you, which will accommodate 4-6 people. In it you will find: – two bedrooms – with a double bed and a bunk bed, – a living room with comfortable sofas and a cupboard full of books and board games, – a bathroom with a shower, – a spacious and well-equipped kitchen. The bedrooms provide accommodation for 4 people, the other 2 can sleep on a fold-out sofa in the living room. The apartment is on the first floor of the house, it has a separate entrance with a staircase just for you. The whole house is 600 m² and is also our home. We live in it with our dog Frania. Take this into account when planning your arrival with pets that are welcome with us. There is also a large terrace, a shed with a bread oven and a smokehouse, a tub and a large sauna at your disposal. You can find more about them in the section - Will I be bored? The house smells of wood, sometimes it creaks, and sometimes you can hear the bark beetle scraping. Inside, we have given a second life to many objects and many of them have their own stories (the bunk bed is made of wood obtained after the demolition of a 19th-century barn, the shed and the sauna are made of 200-year-old wood from demolition in Warmia, and the upholstery boards inside the sauna building come from from a Masurian mill). We obtained them in various ways, they were crafted and some we renovated ourselves.

The case is simple. In Stara Buda, we eat simply and locally. We can prepare for you morning baskets full of local specialties - cheeses, cold cuts, eggs, vegetables and freshly baked bread. We really like to introduce our Guests to the flavors of Podlasie. We buy all products locally - we have eggs from Mrs. Kazi from behind the fence, milk from cows Heniek and Michał, grazing behind the fence. We make yoghurts for you ourselves, and we bake bread from flour from a local mill. If you want to taste something more, we can arrange a sausage or potato cake for you - just whisper to us. And in the garden space we have prepared a shed for you, where you will find a stove with fireworks, a smokehouse, a bread oven, a fireplace, a dining room and places for grilling and focusing.

We have done everything to make boredom a pure pleasure! We have a large garden with numerous nooks and crannies to relax, sit and lie down. We have hammocks, deckchairs and romantic benches. We have a terrace with a view of the forest, a table with chairs and a space for doing yoga if you feel like it. We have cows and a horse grazing behind the fence, and sheaves of hay in the summer. And a bit further there is a forest. And finally, we have a sauna and a hot tub, from which it is most pleasant to gaze at the sky full of stars. What does it look like in detail? Almost 1.5 hectares of fragrant and colorful space with hammocks, deckchairs and charming corners resembling mini beauties await you, where you can immerse yourself in nature and listen to the birds chirping. We also have blankets for you to have picnics in the garden. Bicycles to explore the area, board games, books and magazines are waiting for you. The banquet shelter includes: an oven with fireworks, a smokehouse, a bread oven, a fireplace and a dining room. You can grill and light a fire. We invite hedonists to the world of sauna and hot tub. It is a large relaxation space, and the sauna can accommodate a group of up to 10 people. It smells of wood and oils that we leave for you. When you are tired of boredom, we will tell you where to disappear for a moment among forests and fields. Our "akalice" are magical Podlasie villages, towns and nature reserves that are also worth visiting. Kamionka is located in the buffer zone of the Błudowska Forest, which is part of the Knyszyńska Forest (the second largest forest area after the Białowieża Forest). These are perfect areas for walking, running and cycling. It is also a refuge for animals such as lynx, wolf and bison. We recommend three nearby bicycle routes for bicycle lovers: – Podlasie Stork Trail, 412 km long, starting in the center of Białowieża and reaching Stańczyki (marked in red), – Orthodox Temples Trail, 176 km long (marked in yellow), – Podlasie Cultural Trail "Tree and Sacrum" covering just over 182 km. What else? – Land of Open Shutters, officially covering three towns: Trześcianka, Puchły and Soce in the Narew valley and the vicinity of Hajnówka, but to admire the decorations of wooden cottages it is also worth visiting: Ciełuszek, Pawłów, Kaniuk, Ryboł, Plosek, because this magical land stretches to many tiny villages in Podlasie, – kayaking trip on the Narew River, – Stara Grzybowszczyzna – an Orthodox church and an old cemetery in the middle of the forest, – Kamionka vineyard – a lake (water reservoir) in the forest – Kozi Przeskok, – Tatar villages: Kruszyniany and Bohoniki (to look at mosques and miziary (cemeteries) and taste traditional dishes – kolduns and pierekaczewnik), – Skit in Odrynki, an Orthodox hermitage incredibly situated among the floodplains of the Narew River. You can treat yourself to a trip to Supraśl. There, go to a performance of the Wierszalin theater, visit the monastery, visit the museums: Printing and Papermaking and Icons (located in the Archimandrite Palace from the mid-17th century) and see the Buchholtz Palace (you can visit it during the holidays). Or come to Białystok, 15 km away. If you would like to explore Podlasie on a motorcycle, Bartek is your man.