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- Budapest
- Capital
- Forint (HUF)
- Currency
- 10,106,017
- Population
- HU
- Country Code
Hungary Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hungary
A Fine City
Arriving in Budapest, Hungary, a minibus system transferred people from the airport to various hotels in the city. After checking in at the Regency Suites, there was time for a little nap after the long night flight before walking out to take a look at ...
Boat trip on the Danube
So Tamasz came to meet us and we went walking through the old part of Pesh. The capital is divided into 2 sections, Buda & Pest (pronounced Pesht). Buda houses the older part of the city with the great castles whereas Pest has the newer (but still ...
further east
Budapest
We arrived in Budapest on Thursday, slightly concerned at first as we didn'y know what the currency was, and therefore shocked when 100 ft was demanded to use the loo! After various defunct atms, we jumped onto the metro and found our stop - in Pest, ...
Pest
... surrounded by equestrian statues representing the seven chieftains of the tribes which settled in the present territory of Hungary. Around the corner and along the road a little way I found my destination aka the Budapest ...
Red Bull Air Race
Cette journée se tenait la 4e édition du Red Bull Air Race. (www.redbullairrace.com) Communément appellé la Formule 1 in The Air, elle regroupe les 10 meilleurs pilotes d'avions sur une piste de 1.3 km et pouvant atteindre des vitesse de pointes de ...
A last look at the city
... the castle walls that the fishermen were responsible for protecting. It had seven conical turrets representing the original tribes which settled Hungary and who lived in conical tents. From there you have a great panoramic view of the city below. We got ...
Lake Balaton
... , under an adamantine sun. Today we were taking a daytrip to Pannonhalma Abbey, in the Gyór-Moson-Sopron region of Hungary, and going to a birthday party for both Nóra’s husband, Zalán, and her brother, Denés. Nóra’s ...
A week or so in Budapest...
Ok, so I admit I definitely have been lazy on updating my travel blog, but I've been in Budapest for the last week having a nice ole time with my German friend, Dirk. I met Dirk through Couchsurfing this last year, when he spent several months in ...
Pannonhalma
... stopping along the way to take a tour of the Abby of Pannonhalma. This is one of the oldest Christian monuments in Hungary, actually pre-dating the conversion of the country. It's a massive building that has been built and rebuilt over and ...
Budapeste 3. Gun
Budapeste'de ucuncu ve son gunumde tren kalkana kadar uzun yuruyusler ve tirmanislarla sehrin kesfedilmemis son kisimlarini dolastim, Sehrin en guzel manzarasina sahip Ozgurluk Aniti’na tirmanmak zorlu fakar degiyor. Hemen yakininda super parklar ...
I have a phone! Praise Allah!
OK, I HAVE A CELLPHONE!!! I'm quite proud of myself, not only did I take the tram to a Super-mall on the other half of the city, but i also got a cellphone and didn't make a stupid tourist of myself(I hope...). This city has 3 Supermalls( as far as i ...
Budapest
This is a top pick! ... a winery, which served some pretty amazing goulash soup. We also visited the charms of the small baroque city of Eger in Northern Hungary swayed us enough to stay a couple of nights here. We ended up staying in another home-stay here. While in Eger ...
Choc Losh-on (Easy Tiger)
... I am currently in Prague but this is the first chance I have had to update you all on my short but sweet visit to Budapest, Hungary. And, as especially requested by dear Bob, I will try to keep this entry short and sweet too with lots of paragraphs so his ...
Budapest
Back in Budapest again, I settled down to studying and exploring the city (and drinking). I lived in what used to be the old Jewish quarter, the street my apartment building was on actually used to be the wall around the ghetto. The synagogue ...
A lil Pest today, Buda tomorrow
... end it was all good and i got a pretty good deal. I knew subotica was close to the border with hungary but i never realized it was Literally on the border infact before the train even got moving the Passport control from the ...
Bratislava and Budapest - end of the cruise!
... of the cruise - I caught the plane to Helsinki to go to St Petersburg with my friend Ben. Three different currencies (Hungary, Finland, Russia) in three days fried my brain! My main tip for cruising is to be very careful where you hang ...
Birthday weekend
Although being away from home on your birthday can be a little less than ideal and maybe a little lonely, this weekend was pretty good. This is actually the 2nd birthday in a row where I've been traveling; last year I was in Rome, but Arturo was with me ...
Budapest
Went caving more like pot holing! Actually it is total 100% pot holing. If anyone hasn't heard of pot holing it basically means your squeezing though holes not design to be squeezed though. Sod law's I am the biggest person in the group and the when the ...
First day of work!
I never thought I would say this, but getting back to work made me feel so much better =) Kidding, but it really did. It was nice to be productive, busy and around people. Everyone in the office is really nice. And the coffee is better here. I order ...
HUNGARY!!!
Today was an awesome day (and really long)!!! I woke up at 530 and went for a run with this navy guy on tour. We ran through Roman ruins and Hungarian suburbs, it was really cool. Afterwards we got back right in time for breakfast and to pull our ...
Hot
So after two full days of walking around in Vienna we decided to go to Budapest. We went from the place we were staying to a gas station that was quite close and on the route to the highway to Budapest. After a bit we figured it was a crappy spot, so we ...
Every Single Night.
Turns out, people weren't kidding when they said that Europeans drink more than we do. Maggie and I realized that we have gone out every single night since we've been here! On top of all the people I'm missing back home, I now miss sleep just ...
Beer, Meat, Water ..... with Gas?
... . They even had Ostrich sausages! There's a first for everything, I guess. And then there's the beer - another favourite in Hungary. Beer is extremely cheap for the average traveller with a long neck costing about $1AUD. The variety is amazing including ...
Budapest
... thermals baths to relax for a few hours. Budapest is well known for its bath culture that started when the Turks occupied Hungary and came from the fact that the Turkish love their bath houses and Budapest has naturally occurring thermal springs. The bath ...
