# Travel guides

Practical guides to crossing borders: documents, checks, customs allowances, vignettes and the best time to travel.

- [When to Cross the Ukraine Border – Best Days and Times](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/kiedy-jechac-na-granice-z-ukraina) — A typical week at the Poland–Ukraine crossings, based on the last 60 days of data: which days and hours bring the shortest queues in each direction.
- [Driving to Ukraine – Documents and the Green Card](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/samochodem-na-ukraine-dokumenty) — What you need to drive into Ukraine: passport, Green Card, authorisation to use the car. Plus the Polish travel warning and practical rules under martial law.
- [Customs Allowances from Ukraine and Belarus: Cigarettes, Alcohol](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/limity-celne-ukraina-bialorus) — How many cigarettes, how much alcohol and fuel you can bring into Poland duty-free from the east, when to declare cash, and what you can’t bring in at all.
- [eCherha – Ukraine’s Electronic Border Queue](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/echerha-elektroniczna-kolejka) — eCherha is Ukraine’s exit booking system for trucks and buses. Who has to register, how the queue works, and what it means for cars.
- [The EES at the EU Border – What It Means for Travellers](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/ees-system-wjazdu-wyjazdu-ue) — Since April 2026 the EES has registered non-EU travellers biometrically. Who it covers, what first registration involves and how it affects queues.
- [Checks at the German and Lithuanian Borders – Until When?](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/kontrole-na-granicy-z-niemcami-i-litwa) — Poland and Germany are running temporary checks at internal Schengen borders. Which documents to carry, what the checks look like and how long they will last.
- [Belarus Border – Which Crossings Are Open](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/granica-z-bialorusia-przejscia) — Which Poland–Belarus crossings are open to cars, buses and trucks, which documents you need, and what the Polish foreign ministry advises.
- [Driving the Balkan Route – Borders, Documents and Queues](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/trasa-balkanska-granice-i-kolejki) — Where the longest waits are on the way to Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey and the Adriatic, where an ID card will do, where you need a Green Card, and when to go.
- [Vignettes and Road Tolls on the Way South – 2026 Prices](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/winiety-i-oplaty-drogowe-na-poludnie) — Vignettes in Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia, Romania’s rovinieta and Balkan tolls: what they cost in 2026 and where to buy them.
- [Crossing a Border with a Child or Pet – Documents You Need](https://kolejkanagranicy.pl/en/porady/podroz-z-dzieckiem-i-zwierzeciem-przez-granice) — Children’s documents, the other parent’s consent, pet passports for dogs and cats, rabies vaccination and antibody tests – what you need at the border.

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