Hungarian State Opera House (Magyar Allami Operahaz) Budapest

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Besides the incredibly beautiful architecture and the sweeping skylines along the Danube, Buda and Pest have a lot of other amazing things to offer. Here are a few of our favorites:

1.) There's a wonderful Boba tea place run by a lovely vietnamese couple in a pedestrian underpass near the metro. Megan also happens to be …

Hi everyone I arrived in Budapest a day ago with my lovely cousin, Shivany Mahesan. By way of background, Budapest is a city divided into two regions Buda and Pest. Today, we spent our entire day exploring the Pest side. First thing we saw was the Central Synagogue, where we went on a tour where the tour guide who was speaking English might as well …

According to my calculations, it's only been about 9 days since I wrote about Berlin, but since then we have jumped all over Europe (even aptly staying in a backpackers called the Kangaroo Hop hostel - would recommend it!) - we have seen so much in a short time! After we left Berlin, we went to Leipzig, home of one of my favourite composers, J.S. …

This place is amazing ! The horses and their bare back riders. Such skill and horsemanship. This afternoon we went to king franz josef and queen sissy's favorite Hungarian castle. Godoello. Gary and I went to go for a walk at lunch and then a swim - the crew said no one is able to leave now because the Danube is too high and will flood. So we …

Entry containing 35 photos titled: Villa Sipeky Balázs, Banhos Széchenyi, Castelo Vajdahunyad, Monumento do Milénio, Ilha Margarida, Gül Baba, Parlamento, Igreja Calvinista, Ponte das Correntes, Basilica de Santo Estęvăo, Praça Santo Estęvăo, Igreja Luterana, Edificio dos Correios, Ópera Nacional

Phone kept bouncing messages, which freaked me out a lot. I wasn't ready to spend extra money on a new cell phone. Fortunately, it turned out that my phone had no credit and nothing was wrong with the phone itself.

Gabi and I found that there ACTUALLY IS internet at where we live - they just didn't bother installing wifi here. This made …

I've found my way back to Frici Papa for dinner because I knew it would be cheap and quick. I got the beef porkolt (goulash), sausage and noodles. Not as good as last night unfortunately. Today has been a full one. After a reasonably slow start I took another walking tour, again with Adam from yesterday. This tour took us around the central sites …

A couple of days spent in Hungary have shown me that there is an enormous cultural difference between Eastern European countries and those of Western Europe. This divide could prove to severely hamper Europe's attempt at creating a unified federation of states that work together much like the United States of America. Among the many cultural …

Get ready to see lots of photos of lovely buildings, streets and monuments because at first glance I can tell I'm gonna have to go crazy with a camera here!

Population about 3.2m including the surrounding area. This city is home to 1.8m residents living, it seems, in densely populated apartment buildings on all streets of the city on the …

Budapest is an amazing city. I first had the pleasure to experience Budapest in 1997, visiting a friend who moved to Budapest immediately after college. I always admired my friend's choice to pursue the "adventuresome" route and explore Eastern Europe. Upon my visit, I admired his choice even more of Budapest.

My first trip here, I …

... subway in Continental Europe, so that explained why it seemed a little old timey. At any rate, this time I exited at the Hungarian State Opera House (Magyar Állami Operaház). There were tours at 3pm and 4pm. It was only around 10am, but I went back in ...

... , stared at me and shook their heads.  I think tourism and commercialism are still new to some people here. The Hungarian State Opera House was featuring the ballet Hommage A Dohnanyi.  As majestic as the building may be, the venue is still ...

... Minister Gyula Andrássy. One of the buildings on the Andrássy út is Magyar Állami Operaház or the building of the Hungarian State Opera House. Of course, Su Yeon and I stopped to take a few photos and right then among the cars that had stopped at ...

... arriving, and then decided to explore Budapest a bit by night.  We saw a few of the sights in Pest, including the Opera House, St. Stephen's Basilica, and the Parliament.  We also looked across the Danube River to Buda, where we could see the ...

... Becky and Kim got in the next day we went off and started to explore the city.  First off we went to the opera house to buy tickets for Tsiolkovsky's Onegin which we got for 400 forints (about 2 dollars).  While we were there we encountered ...

... the river holds St. Stephen's church, which houses the supposed mummified hand of the Saint himself. We also saw the Hungarian State Opera House -- as usual, stunning architecture. After another good eight hour day of walking, we made our way back across ...

... built on the outer city walls when Jews were banned from the city.  My last stop was a look at the Hungarian State Opera House.  After all this walking I was getting hungry.  Along my travels I had found the cutest open air ...

... Well, maybe a few other places, but I've never found any others! So, last night I went to see Swan Lake at the Hungarian State Opera House. For 1.20. Still amazed! I've been meaning to go for a long time, but never seemed to get around to it after ...

... buildings that we passed along the way were World-Heritage listed and there was definitely a reason for them being listed. The Hungarian State Opera House was impressive, as was the Szechenyi Furdo that had many of the baths. Matt and I debated going to ...

... the daily grind of my German life. Saturday didn’t work out quite so well, I was hoping to see an opera in the Hungarian State Opera house (one of Europe’s great venues) but when I got there, all the tickets to that evenings showing of Verdi ...