The most popular route to Morskie Oko, the most famous and largest Tatra lake (area 34.54 ha or 34.92 ha, depth 50.8 m), leads through Bukowina, considered by many to be the most beautiful in the Tatra Mountains. In its blue depths you can see the highest peaks of the Polish Tatras: Rysy (2503) and Mięguszowiecki Szczyt (2438 m). There are numerous tourist trails leading from Morskie Oko:
- red through Czarny Staw to Rysy,
- red and then green through Czarny Staw to Mięguszowiecka Przełęcz pod Chłopkiem (2307 m),
- yellow through Dolina za Mnichem to Szpiglasowa Przełęcz (2114 m)
- yellow and then red through the Dolina za Mnichem to the Chałubiński Gate (2022 m)
- blue through Świstowa Czuba (1,763 m) to the Valley of Five Polish Ponds.
The road to Morskie Oko turns in Łysa Polana from the route leading to the former border crossing between Poland and Slovakia. This passage, next to the passage in nearby Jurgów, is the gateway to exploring the Slovak Tatra Mountains as well as the Slovak part of the historical region bordering the Tatra Mountains, called Spiš.
