Welcome to our fairy tale, a bit different from the ones you know. Some buildings look like 'One Thousand and One Nights,' mysterious whisperers hiding in the passages, sweet anthill cakes that you will be happy to lick, heroes living in colourful wooden cottages, big horned bison graze on meadows, dirt roads lead behind the village. They speak a dialect that combines several languages, benches in front of fences inviting for a moment of rest and conversation, babushkas wear floral kerchiefs on their heads.
This tale tells of Podlasie, our village of Nowoberezowo, near Hajnówka. Here, where antique crosses mark the former end of the village and protect it from evil, there is a taste of childhood in a cottage behind wooden shutters. Memories of holidays with the grandparents, ice-cold water from the well and delicious apples from the orchard behind the barn. If you didn't go to the countryside as a child, you could make up for it now.
Take your suitcase full of free time and make yourself at home in a typical Podlasie house with a charming porch, tiled oven and wooden floor. It feels like it used to, but fresh and with a touch of modernity. Mallows grow under the windows, behind the house, an old barn and sheds defend against the passage of time. In the village yard, time passes at a snail's pace. You can talk to your neighbour over the fence, light a bonfire, eat an apple straight from the tree and check what's going on in Nowoberezowo at a walking pace. You can go to Belovezhskaya Pushcha, to Hajnówka for traditional Martinek and potato dumplings, to the other end of the village to admire thatched cottages.
We hope you will feel this idyllic climate. Welcome to our world.
In a fairy-tale habitat, in the village of Nowoberezowo in Podlasie. The house looks like 100 years ago but is refreshed. The barn has been given a second life and now has two apartments. While arranging the interiors, we tried to reflect the character and atmosphere of the Podlasie region. It was possible thanks to old furniture and trinkets in Podlasie style, which we gave a new life.
The old tiled stove has become the heart of the house, and the restored wooden floors, walls and doors hide interesting stories from several dozen years ago. The house, barn and pigsties create a typical Podlasie country backyard with an orchard behind the barn and beautiful areas for walks. It will be idyllic, rural, simple and slow.
The house is designed for 6 people.
Behind the wooden shutters you will find:
- a separate 2-bed room with its own bathroom,
- a living room with a lounge suite, a table with chairs and a stylish tiled stove,
- a kitchenette with full equipment,
- 2-bed room with a double bed,
- 2-bed room with single beds,
- bathroom with shower.
The house has access to a large covered terrace.
New apartment:
- 2 bedrooms with double beds,
- a large living room with a kitchenette,
- fully equipped kitchen (dishwasher, etc.),
- fireplace,
- bathroom with shower,
- terrace.
Mysia Norka loft:
- a living room with a kitchenette,
- a fireplace in the living room,
- a bedroom with a large double bed,
- bathroom with shower.
We invite you with your pets to relax in the Podlasie countryside.
You cook yourselves because the house and apartments have kitchens.
Happy chanterelles run next to our habitat, there are beds of strawberries, fresh tomatoes, onions and chives. Only delicious things at your fingertips. In the orchard behind the old barn, the apple trees offer delicious, ruddy apples.
In Hajnówka, which is closest to us, you can eat well in Podlasie and Belarusian style, to your heart's content.
- At the Leśny Dworek Restaurant, order borscht with dumplings, kartacze, Belarusian and Białowieża tea, pelmeni, steak tartare, Hajnówka pork fat, which is delightful, and beer from a local brewery.
- At Niezapomijcie you will eat delicious dumplings, large pork chops and delicious salads.
- In Mozaika you will eat delicious food, including delicious pelmeni
- At Babushka Bistro, the menu changes seasonally, written on a blackboard with chalk. It's modest, but tasty. In summer you can eat a good cold soup, also order pielniemi with mutton, kartacze, dumplings in broth, solyanka, potato cake. Don't count calories here.
You must go for a walk to Białowieża - there are many regional pubs with delicious game dishes.
And if you want to buy vegetables, honey and preserves, there is a market in Hajnówka on Saturdays, and the best pickled cucumbers from the bottle are only from Hajnówka! Yum :D
There is no time for boredom with us. The beautiful grounds invite to walks and bike rides through villages, meadows, fields and forests. The schedule includes a trip through the Białowieża Forest, where you can discover beautiful old oaks, forest animals and this unique smell of nature. It is also worth following the map of events in the Forest, because despite the wilderness, there are cultural people who every now and then organize Poetry in the Forest, the Festival: Forest - get inspired! And this is a French horn concert. In the vicinity, in the meadows near forests, you can see herds of bison. This unusual view is rather commonplace for the residents. Bison graze under fences, roam the fields, and sometimes enter the village. If you are lucky, you will spot them near the Duck Swamp at dawn or at dusk. If you want to meet the bison eye to eye, go to the Bison Show Reserve in Białowieża or to the "Kosy Most" bison refuge.
You can also hide in a cottage reading a book, in old wooden walls with white wooden windows and white doors that remember many stories.
It is worth planning your holiday and vacation in Podlasie so that you find time to rest and explore this wooden region famous for bison, forest, delicious food and the church. We are only 6 minutes away by car to Hajnówka with good food and monuments.
The regional Bison Fair takes place during the summer holidays in Hajnówka. This is where you will try local delicacies, learn how to make them, buy regional handicrafts and get to know our borderland culture.
And for the Antiques and Folk Craft Fair, to Kiermusy near Tykocin. Every first Sunday of the month for 15 years, antiques enthusiasts from all over Poland will have their stands.
What to see in the area:
- Holy Mountain of Grabarka - the most sacred place of Polish Orthodoxy.
- Monuments of architecture in Nowoberezów - a wooden granary at the house of the Orthodox clergy from the 19th century and a private open-air museum Zagroda Stefan.
- a narrow-gauge railway to Topił - a former settlement of forest workers,
-Park of Miniatures of Podlasie Monuments
- Skit in Odrynki - the only Orthodox hermitage in Poland, there are two monks in the skit since 2019.
- Open-air museum in Koźlice.
- Krzemianka Nature Reserve - you will enter Krzemianka, stopping behind Rybnik.
- The Land of Open Shutters leading through Ciełuszki, Soce, Trześcianka, Kaniuki, Ryboły, Wojszki, Plutycze, where you can admire the folk ornaments of rural cottages in the form of shutters, over- and window sills, decorative façade cladding and gables of wooden residential buildings.
Tourist routes: Podlasie Stork Trail, Trail of Orthodox Churches, Trail Land of Open Shutters, Tree and Sacrum Cultural Trail.
In summer, to cool down, it is worth going to the Siemianówka Lagoon or organizing a canoeing trip on the Narew and Narewka rivers.
What’s there for children?
The kids are invited on board! It is always warm on the wooden floor of an old house, so the blocks can be stacked from dawn to dusk. You can watch cows, chickens, pigs and even ostriches at your neighbors, and count directly from the windows how many tractors will pass on a given day. A walk around the village brings stories of stork nests, old houses with dry grass roofs and colorful churches with onion domes and a cross with a cross. There is only nature around, fresh air and the sounds of the countryside. In the Podlasie backyard you can play hopscotch, play rubber, hide and seek and tag. Sniff and collect flowers in the meadow, throw pebbles - playfully playfully.
