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Family and kids
Our advice is to visit Budapest and Miskolc. Budapest offers a nice historical views, excellent restaurants, museums, spa and swimming pools, Funfair in Vidám Park, Buda Castle labyrinth, Tropicarium and many other attractions for kids. Miskolc is a city with ruins and real cave bath possibilities.

Couple
1) Budapest - shopping
2) Keszthely
3) Veszprém

Group
Visit Hevíz Lake Spa and relax. We suggest to visit Gyor (Győr), Hungary’s second richest town in historic buildings outside Budapest. You can look up to the historic buildings, churches, palaces, museums, typical corner-balconies. This town offers excellent refreshment at one of the many coffee houses and restaurants.

Seniors
First of all we suggest to visit Budapest. It is a very pleasant hictorical town with an incredible atmosphere. Then we recommend to visit Eger and wine area. Then you can visit Miskolc and relax in cave spa.

Single
Budapest is a good place to go for shopping. Starting point is Deák Ferenc Street. Try laso Váci Street. Then visit Pécs. Pécs is home for both cultural heritage and cultural innovation. There are monuments surviving from the Turkish era, including mosques and slender minarets and Christian burial tombs. As a single yyou can enjoy exhibitions, museums, Zsolnay ceramics. We suggest not to miss the Villány-Siklós Wine Route and taste traditional Hungarian wines.

Biker
The wonderful area is around the wine route. You can start at Harkány, then you can bike to Siklós and Villánykövesd. You can stop anywhere and relax in thermal baths or to enjoy the view to vineyards. The nice route is also between Mosonmagyarovar and Gyor.

Skier
Hungary is a flat country and therefore there are only some small ski resorts. You can try to ski for example at Galyatetö, Kékestető - Mátraháza, Mátraszentistván Sípark, Nagy Hideg-hegy or Bánkút.

Adventurer
Our advice is to try walking in Hungary. There are beautiful marked trails through the rolling hills of Somogy county. You can admire the vast forests and virgin nature in Hungary. Explore hiking-tours, GPS-hiking, nordic walking or even geocaching.

Explorer
We recommend to visit Lake Tisza and surroundings. Try to explore a land with an ancient tradition on horseback across sandy plains.

Outdoor traveler
1) Villányi Mountains with Abaliget Cave
2) The Bükk Mountains
3) Hortobágy

Sportsman
1) Formula 1 Grand Prix
2) Lake Tisza offers classic sport activities as sailing, water skiing and surfing. Lake Tisza is an exclusive lake in Europe where you can speed around by powerboat and jet-ski. There are recreation areas, open-air baths, camp-sites.

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Top places of interest and picks

Budapest

Buda Castle from 13 th century and Castle Museum - the medieval royal palace

Danube embankment - don´t miss to walk along the Danue river. It´s breathtaking.

Parliament - neo-Gothic style of turn of the 19 th and 20 th century

Andrássy Avenue - terminates at the Millénium Monument

Aquincum Museum and Ruins - one of the largest archeologist parks

Hungarian National Gallery with very vast permanent exhibitions and temporary exhibitions

Hungarian National Museum

Hungarian Natural History Museum

Museum of Fine Arts is located in the grandiose building. Museums has a wide collection of foreign art. Very nice Egyptian, Greek, Roman, French and Italian collections.

Chain Bridge - the oldest bridge in Budapest is very photogenic.

Matthias Church

Fisherman´s Bastion

The Citadel on Gellért hill

St. Stephen Basilica is the largest church in Budapest.

The National Theater

Memento Park - Statue Park

The remains of the Roman amphitheater

Children's Railway in Budapest - children aged 10 to 12 years are driving the railway with the driver

Gellért Medicinal Spa and Swimming Pool

Margaret Island - the beautiful park s located on the island

Hevíz

Lake Hevíz (spa) - the medicinal lake in Hévíz is the largest biologically active natural thermal lake in the world.

Eger

Castle - includes Gothic Palace and Art Gallery. In the Castle is an interesting Minting Museum.

Minaret - one of the tallest minarets in Europe (42 m)

Spa

Széchenyi Street is a favourite pedestrian shopping street with sympatic cafes, restaurants and confectioneries.

Sümeg

Castle

Ják

Romanesque church

Debrecen

University

Balaton

Balaton - the largest lake in Central Europe with an area of 600 square kilometers. The water temperature reaches 25 degrees °C. There are many tourist resorts. These include the popular holiday location. On the shore of Lake Balaton is the number of camping:

Camping Badacsony - near Badacsony

Camping Napfény - near Révfülöp

Camping Balaton - near Badacsonyörs

Camping Venus - near Balatonszepezd

Camping Levendula, Strand, Holiday - near Balatonakali

Camping Diana - near Aszófő

Camping Furedi - near Balatonfüred and many more

Caves

Pálvölgyi Cave

Szemlő-hegyi Cave

The caves of Budapest are hydrothermal caves.

Abaliget Cave in Mecsek

Cave system Baradla in Aggtelek is one of the longest known and surveyed cave system of the world.

The István-lápa Cave is the deepest cave in Hungary.

Esztergom

Basilica - the biggest church (basilica) in Central Europe

Széchenyi square is the main square with incredible baroque buildings, fountains and restaurants. You can admire a unique architecture.

Miskolc

Repaired ruins of medieval Diosgyor castle

Cave bath - in real cave with spring water with a temperature of 30 °C. You can take your bath in cave passages unique in Europe.

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Trip plan

Are you in Hungary only for a summer holiday? Visit above mentioned cities and enjoy sun and spa.

Here you can find our tips for trip plan:

1 day

Budapest
Eger
The Aggtelek National Park

2 days

Budapest
Visegrád
Eszterdom

2 days

Siófok
Tihany
Lake Hevíz