Exploring Hungary

During my Erasmus, Budapest was not the only city I saw in Hungary.

First trip we took was to Holloko (I might have misspelled that as Hungarian city names sometimes seem as somebody just threw random letters and named the city like that. I'm pretty sure the names mean something in Hungarian but when I don't speak that language, I'm just saying how it seems to me. No offence, Hungarians). But before we stopped in some natural museum which they called "another Pompeii" as some little volcano erupted and covered everything in that area. I'm not really sure as we got the shortened version of the tour (because of the whole group we were only 5 non-Hungarian speakers, so we didn't get a lot of attention from the tour guide. He would quickly explain what we can see and tell us that we can go "migrate" around). But it was still cool because we saw what animals existed before the eruption and we got to climb this little route over trees (we had safety lines of course). And Holloko was like a live Hungarian culture museum: the houses were like they used to be, we saw people in national Hungarian clothes, we ate langos. It was nice. And later we climbed to a castle from which you could see Slovakia.

Szentendre

This is a little town, very peaceful, very calm. We had a one afternoon trip. Mostly we just walked around, there's a marzipan museum, all year working Christmas museum and all these little shops and cafes. Just a small chill town.

Godollo

We just wanted to see that as Queen and empress Sisi (or Elizabeth or Erzsebet) was living there. We found not only her palace and a nice park around it, but also the World Peace Gong!

Esztergom

This city is completely on the border of Slovakia and Hungary, and yes, it has the biggest church, but I think mostly people go there to take pictures on the border and brag that they walked to Slovakia and back (like we did). Actually it was also just after my mentor's birthday so we had a little sit down with cake. (that's my mentor on the right in the picture!)

Bear zoo

The name basically says the point. But the cool thing is you can feed the bears with a huge spoon! You can feed them apples, they love honey...and you can see the little cubs as well! Adooorable! But if you're going there, prepare for a long walk from the train station and back. We did it in a quite hot day. Ouch.