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Min. number of participants (for any of the tours): 15 pax
Danube Bend tour: Szentendre – Esztergom - Visegrád
Thursday, 28 May
Half day Szentendre tour (first part of the Danube Bend tour)
Starts at 13:30
Price: 40 Euro / person
The tour includes a visit to Szentendre. The artists’ town with its
cobbled-stone squares and picturesque old streets and alleys.
Visiting the Skanzen, which is an Open Air Ethnographical museum. The
architecture of almost every region of the country is represented in
this collection of more than 300 buildings. There will be possibility
for shopping in the many handicrafts’ and souvenirs shops.
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Friday, 29 May
Esztergom and Visegrád (second part of the Danube Bend tour)
DUE TO LIMITED NUMBER OF REGISTERED
PARTICIPANTS, THIS TOUR HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
UNDERSTANDING
Starts at 09:00
Price: 85 Euro / person
Esztergom, the seat of the leader of the Hungarian Catholic
Church, the Archbishop of Esztergom, lies next to the Danube.
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Visegrád is famous for the remains of the Early Renaissance
summer palace of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and the medieval
citadel.
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| Royal feast in the Renaissance
restaurant. The dishes are based on genuine medieval recepies and served
on special earthenware plates by waiters in period costume to the
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After the meal you will take part in a real knights’ tournament in
the town’s lower castle.
Coming back to Budapest at around 16:00.
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Thursday & Friday, 28-29 May, with overnight in the country side
North- Eastern Hungary tour: Szalajka valley - Aggtelek - Eger
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DUE TO LIMITED NUMBER OF REGISTERED
PARTICIPANTS, THIS TOUR HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
UNDERSTANDING
Price: 275 Euro / person
(including entrance fees, 2 lunches, 1 dinner, accommodation for 1
night incl. breakfast)
Departure at 09:00.
Arrival next day at around 16:00
Arrive at the Szalajka valley, going up to the top of the valley by a
small railway.
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Lunch outside in the valley. The menu is fresh fish with salad and
wine.
After lunch traveling to Aggtelek. The name of Aggtelek was made
famous, both in Hungary and abroad, by one of the most extensive cave
system is located within Hungary (its western branch extends to Slovakia). The karst hills were formed about 500 million years ago.
From the bone and tool finds, it is believed that it was used by man
seven thousand years ago.
One notable feature of the cave system is the underground Concert
Hall, where audiences are entertained by the music and the light
display. The short tour is appr. 1 hr long.
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After the tour traveling to Eger. Check in at the
hotel.
Dinner in a typical wine cellar in the Vale of Fair Women, with wine
tasting and Hungarian folk dance and gipsy music.
Next day (Friday, 29 May) after breakfast, sightseeing in Eger.
Eger is a city built on hills, replete with history, and with many
sides it, so that there is something to suit everyone’s tastes. It
offers tradition and romance, steeped in its long history, a castle, a
Basilica, countless churches, fine wrought-iron gates, frescoes and a
museum and library full of priceless objects.
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Further photos of Eger |
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On the way home, late lunch in a private wine cellar.
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