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Walking through the Polish/Czech border

Hi guys,
I found this video on YouTube that describes how to cross on foot the border from southern Poland (near Krakow) through Czech Republic (on the side of Ostrava).

https://youtu.be/QHsnmDFwQok?si=DthH1ZiSBnYeN7SF

My aim is to reach Olomouc and I would love to do a stretch by walking and see some place out of the beaten path (I love both Poland and Czech).
I was thinking to do the same route of the guy (I'm currently backpacking through Central/Eastern Europe).
I have few questions:
- as a solo female traveler, I'm concerned about safety (in the video two beggars try to steal the camera of the guy).
- plus, it's not clear if the video depicts realistically what's happening, seems the road is on renovation and the guy is in a lovely Polish village and suddenly he's on a dirty road full of beggars.
If someone of you has ever personally done this route and can confirm me its doability, I would much appreciate. Thank you on advance!

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They are not beggars, they are chronic alcoholics.. men like them are not violent, don't interact with them and they leave you alone. Do what the woman with a child did, not that guy.

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Good that you are undertaking a hike through some very important real estate and towns, historically, linguistically, and culturally before the populations met with the horrors of WW 2 . You have a chosen a super interesting place for hiking.

Is Ostrava in Moravia your terminus or do intend to go to Ciesyn (Poland) as well. The tri-cultural (Poles, Czechs, and German) area in that neck of the woods was called Teschen (the German name is used English historiography prior to 1945). Otrava/Moravia was part of the Sudetenland.. Both the Czechs and the Poles bickered , contested over controlling Teschen.