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| Hungary Travel Guide for backpackers |
| With countryside of beautiful lakes, rustic villages and towns with ornate baroque architecture, Hungary is a scenic and colourful place.
It also has great wines, thermal spas, and a thriving arts and music scene in its capital Budapest, and will call to you when you back home in your old familiar places. If you have the cash you will answer that call, because Hungary will steal your heart and linger in your memory forever. |
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Budapest - Known as the 'Paris of Eastern Europe', this graceful old city has magnificent architecture and being well planned and laid out is a treat for sightseeing strolls.
Eger - This beautifully preserved baroque town is the site of 175 protected buildings and monuments, and the Valley of the Beautiful Women Wine Cellars, where you can sample Bull's Blood, the famous Bikavér (Eger Bull's Blood) wine.
Lake Balaton - This is where the nation comes to play and the south shore is lined with the high-rise hotels and the glitz of the Siófok resort, but there are historical towns, sights, and mountain trails on the north bank.
Pecs - Some of the finest monuments in the country are located here, as well as the enormous16th century Mosque Church from the days of the Turkish occupation.
Hortobagy National Park - Over 310 species of bird life exist in this huge national park, including one of the world's biggest birds, the weighing 20kg and standing a metre high, the Great Bustard. |
 DAILY BUDGET in HUNGARY - Hungary is a backpacker's delight as it is so cheap to explore, and US$25 a day can provide a holiday staying in private rooms, eating at reasonable restaurants and 2nd-class train travel. Of course you can cut costs even further by staying in hostels, camping and grabbing chow from food stalls. |
Summer is long and leisurely in Hungary, with crowded resorts over July and August, after which life grinds to a standstill, but autumn is beautiful, and spring a joy. Winter is not so good, cold and bleak and pretty much dead.
The Budapest Spring Festival in March is an extravaganza of culture with local and international performances and exhibitions. In August in the town of Nagykálló; the Folk Arts Festival is one of the best events of the year, with Hungary's top Jazz festival held in September in Debrecen. |
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