In Lillafüred you can take idyllic boat rides on Lake Hámori.
Little by little, the countries are ending the state of alarm, reopening its borders and allowing the entry of travelers. One of the last has been Hungary, where the citizens of the European Union, in addition to those of Serbia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland, can now fly. For now, the plane is the only way to reach the Magyar country, although the air routes with Spain –Wizz Air and Ryanair will offer different weekly frequencies to Budapest from Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca– they will not start until 1st of July, date on which the Hungarian railway company, MÁV, will also reactivate its trains with neighboring countries, which are a few: Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia.
Though there will be no movement restrictions, no need to quarantine upon arrival in the country, Hungarian Tourism Agency has warned that the measures still in force must be respected, such as the Mandatory use of masks in shops and public transport.
Located in the geographical center of Europe and featuring a vast plain that accompanies the course of the Danube River, between the Alps and the Carpathians, Hungary is an increasingly powerful tourist destination, well known for the benefits of its thermal waters –in the country there are around 300 public hot springs spread throughout the country–, and for the architectural beauty of its capital, Budapest, sometimes medieval (in Buda), sometimes neoclassical (in Pest), depending on which bank of the Danube you are on. The city has more thermal baths than anywhere else in the world and a spa culture that draws from its Roman and Ottoman heritage.
By the way, if you're wondering if the thermal centers will also be open this summer, The answer is yes, but the use of a mask will be mandatory, yes, and a safety distance of one meter between people will have to be kept, whenever possible.
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But Budapest is much more than health baths and romantic walks along the Danube – did you know that its techno music club It has nothing to envy to Berlin?, although, given the circumstances, this is not the best time for it– and **Hungary is much more than Budapest. **
MUCH MORE THAN THERMAL BATHS AND GOULASH
Hungary is also unaltered nature to enjoy in solitude and beach days and paddle surfing in the lake balaton , so big that it looks like a sea; unforgettable gastronomic experiences based on meggyleves (a sour cherry soup ideal for summer), csirke paprikás (chicken with paprika) and főzelék (vegetable stew) –not everything is going to be goulash– and wine tourism routes in which to discover Tokaj sweet wine or **the crimson red bull's blood from Eger. **
Hungary is also Győr, the so-called city of rivers, of Roman origin and halfway between Budapest and Vienna, or the beautiful town of Hollókő , bastion of traditional Hungarian culture. A true open-air museum in which 67 traditional houses (and all of them extremely white) are preserved almost exactly the same as when they were built in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Hungary is also the trip to the past offered by Sopron, with the best preserved medieval center in the country, and the city of Pecs , with a relaxed Mediterranean atmosphere and a surprising Turkish, Paleo-Christian and Roman heritage. Forks Debrecen, the second most populous city in the country, or the aforementioned Eger, so bohemian and intellectual (and lively, thanks to its university atmosphere), famous for its baroque architecture and for meeting protected by two of the few mountain ranges in the country: Bükk and Mátra . Destinations all of them little frequented even by international tourism, are the ideal plan for travelers who appreciate, this summer more than ever, getting off the beaten track.
HORIZONS OF GREATNESS
And then there's the puszta (literally bare earth, desert, or void), the Great Plain or Great Alföld. Just two hours from Budapest, the Hortobagy National Park, declared a World Heritage Site, it is the largest grassland plain in Europe and a paradise for bird watchers, since more than 340 species have been registered here.
Imagine hundreds of wild horses galloping free, herds of sheep of the racka breed (those with spiral horns), the mystery of the gypsy music Y horizons so wide that they cause mirages (and this is literal), the so-called délibabok. This is the puszta or, as the romantic poet Sándor Petofi: “It is on the plain as wide as the sea that my home is and my free soul flies like an eagle through the infinite steppe”.
It is not one of the usual mirages of the puszta, or Great Plain, but a demonstration of the skill of the Magyar cowboys
Another destination with wide natural spaces and yet to be discovered (and with a much more benevolent climate for the summer months) is the Balaton Highlands National Park. Here they are the Miskolctapolca sea cave, one of the 3,700 caves registered in the country, but the only one in Europe that offers the possibility of taking a thermal bath inside, and the basalt formations of the Szent-György Mountain, full of curiosities for travelers who want to go further. For them, Hungary could be the big surprise of the season.