The
following tour-ideas are here to give you some inspiration. All of our tours can
be tailor-made for your exact needs and interests: we can make the trip shorter
or longer, we can easily add or remove places to visit. We are absolutely open
to completely different plans as well. You just come up with the idea and we try
to do our best to realise it!
MUST-SEE It is a tour showing you
the most famous sights of Budapest, some of them are part of UNESCO’s World Heritage
locations. • Heroes’ Square with the Millenary Monument and the City Park
• Andrássy Avenue • the Hungarian State Opera House • the Danube bank •
the Castle Hill • Matthias Church • the Fishermen’s Bastion • the beautiful
bridges over the Danube and many more…
BUDAPEST ANNO This
tour wishes you to feel the atmosphere of the ’marry time of peace’ period of
Budapest from the 1850’s to till the WW I by showing you architecture, design,
beautifully restored cafés and reastaurants, relics in certain different museums
with entertaining stories about the age: Hungarian Art-nouveau, Zsolnay pyrogranite
ceramics, Café Gerbeaud, the 1896 Millenary Exhibition, Emperor Franz Joseph and
his wife, Sissi (Elisabeth) Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary…and many more…
RECREATIONAL This tour helps you to enjoy one, two or all
of the world-famous thermal baths of Budapest, among others: Gellért, Rudas, Széchenyi,
Császár, St. Lukács, Király. If you are interested, you can learn more about the
well-developed bathing culture of the Romans and the Turks by visiting the Roman
ruins of Contra Aquincum or the Aquincum Museum or one of the Turkish baths. We
can offer walks on the most breathtaking green parts of Budapest, too. Margaret
Island, Gellért Hilll, the City Park, the Botanical Gardens, The Budapest Zoo… We
can also make appointments with English-speaking professional massage therapists
if you wish.
CULTURAL If you have a special interest (history,
arts, music…) during this trip you can visit all the relevant sights and museums,
institutions, festivals, events, concerts which will all be selected especially
for you.
JEWISH DISTRICT Introduces the culture, history
and life of one of the biggest Jewish diaspora in Central Europe while walking
through the Budapest Jewish District. Beautiful, famous and hidden but also important
and interesing places are shown:
• Places of worship, memorial Synagogue
of Dohány, Rumbach Sebestyén, Kazinczy, Vasvári Pál Street, Heroes’ Temple, Carl
Lutz Memorial…
• Residential blocks of Akácfa, Dob, Wesselényi, Dohány,
Kertész, Király Street...
• Institutions Orthodox Centre, Hungarian
Jewish Museum and Archives, Mikveh…
• Market and shops Klauzál Square
Market Hall, Kosher bakery and pizzeria, engraver, brush-maker, antique shop…
JEWISH CEMETERIES Brings you to the cemeteries
of Buda, Pest or the countryside.
Buda Side Jewish Cemeteries: • Óbuda
Jewish Cemetery • Csörsz Street Orthodox Cemetery • Farkasrét Jewish Cemetery
Pest Side Jewish Cemeteries: • Dohány Street Main Synagogue Cemetery •
Salgótarján Road Cemetery • Kozma Street Cemetery • Gránátos Street Orthodox
Cemetery
The countryside: • Ihel (Sátoraljaújhely, the tomb of Moses
Teitelbaum) • Nagykálló • Olaszliszka • Mád • Bodrogkeresztúr…
BACK
TO THE ROOTS Are you willing to find your roots in Budapest or anywhere
in Hungary? We are ready to search and help you to find and explore the place
your ancestors came from.
DANUBE ROWING If you love being
on water, from May to September you can come and try what is rowing like on the
River Danube. Comfortable speed, it doesn’t even matter if you haven’t tried rowing
before. In the nearby eateries of the river bank you can try the real Hungarian
’langosh’ (fried dough) with sour cream on the top and drink some beer or refreshments.
On the way back you can even have a look at the Parliament from the distance.
COOK WITH A LOCAL Want a glimpse into a real Hungarian kitchen?
You can do it! Prepare and enjoy some typical Hungarian dishes from a very easy
one to something more sophisticated after or before being guided in the city.
COUNTRY SIGHT Visiting locations nearby Budapest. Among
others:
• Szentendre Skanzen-Open Air Museum Village, and many other
museums, churches...
• Gödöllő The Royal Palace of Gödöllő is one of
the largest baroque palaces in Hungary with a large and amazing park around it
where even Sissi used to walk…
• Vác and Vácrátót Crypt findings from
the Dominican Church of Vác, Botanical Garden in Vácrátót…
• Visegrád The
double castle system of Visegrád…
• Zsámbék Ruins of a 13th century
church and monastery…
FURTHER SERVICES
BOOKINGS
and RECOMMENDATIONS We also make HOTEL, RESTAURANT, CONCERT bookings for
an extra fee.
CAR, BUS or BIKES to YOUR TRIP The CAR we
provide is an air-conditioned Citroen Berlingo, comfortable for 3 tourists and
the guide, plus a professional and reliable driver, which alows the guide to fully
concentrate on you and the trip.
