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. . . you can arrange each day of your trip from the Kosice-base by each world-way (cardinal points) directions. (4 main: west, south, north, east). Among this days of your trip we could add visits of your ancestry villages as well.

Author of this website recommends
ideas of your schedule below:

1-day - from Kosice to the SOUTH-WEST direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Domica cave for public entry (Unesco world heritage site) . . . more click on:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/725
- Betliar manor house (museum)
- Krasna Horka castle (museum)

2-day - from Kosice to the WEST direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Jasov fishing - possible to hire fishing (ticket: 24 hours- fee 20 USD) in the private lake next to the manor house in Jasov (your fish will be cooked in the restaurant)
- Jasov manor house (museum)
- Jasov cave for public entry
- Zadiel - deep valley for short hiking

3-day - from Kosice to the NORTH-WEST direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Spis castle (Unesco world heritage site) . . . more click on:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/620
- Levoca -main square - good restaurant for lunch
- Levoca - state archive - searching records (SPIS county)
- High Tatras - mountains - Stary Smokovec, Tatranska Lomnica - taking cable car if it is working (depends on weather).
- Slovak paradise - natural park - short hiking

4-day - from Kosice to the NORTH direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Stara Lubovna castle
- Poland - wooden church on the border crossing
- Bardejov spa - open air museum (two wooden churches in this scansen)
- Bardejov main square (Unesco world heritage site) . . . more click on:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/973
- Presov city - state archive - searching records (SARIS county)

5-day - from Kosice to the NORTH-EAST direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Svidnik - Rusyn museum
- Svidnik - open air museum of the rusyn ancient village
(wooden church in this scansen)
- Dukla battlefield- memorial II WW - 7 days long battle with more
then 120,000 died soldiers.
- Dukla - Valley of the death - open air museum of tanks T-54 placed on the field on the exact place of the worst battles during the Dukla opration in 1944.
- wooden churches in Bodruzal and Mirola. (Unesco world heritage sites) . . . more click on:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1053
- Domasa reservoir - tourist swimming centre (good for lunch).

6-day - from Kosice to the NORTH-EAST (more to the east) direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Humenne - Manor house (museum) - the residence of nobel family
which owned Zemplin county.
- Humenne - open air museum of the ancient village
(wooden church in this scansen)
- Nova Sedlica - the most east village in Slovakia - also of Europe Union. (good restaurant for lunch)
- Ulicske Krive - wooden church
- Zboj - the meteor landed in 1866. The part of the Carpathian Mountains - Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1133
- Kolonica - observatory for public entry
- Starina - reservoir - DARA (expired village) - millitary cemetery from I WW (1915).

7-day - from Kosice to the EAST direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
Dargov - battlefield- memorial II WW - 4 days long battle with more then 60,000 died soldiers.
Tokaj - wineyard area - to taste and buy slovak-hungarian Tokaj wine.
Leles - 1000 years old monastery
Uzhorod - you can see Ukrainian city from Slovak side.
Inovce - wooden church
Michalovce - manorhouse - museum

8-day - from Kosice to the SOUTH direction and return back.
Siteseeings:
- Hungary - the church were was printed the first copy of Holy Bible
in the Empire Austria-Hungary in 1590 - for public entry (museum)
- Satoraljaujhely - state archive - searching records (ZEMPLIN county)
- Kosice - state archive - searching records (ABOV county)
- Kosice - 2 look out towers in the centre or in the edge of the city

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