Sumeg Fortress and Heviz Thermal Spa

I especially recommend you to visit town Sümeg sumeg.hu a legendary 13th century fortress in Middle-West Hungary. The town's fortress is Sümegvár sumegvar.hu one of the nicest restored and preserved forts of the present Hungary. Unfortunately the town and the fort's website only available in Hungarian. Not far from there (about 20 km) you can enjoy the famous Hévíz thermal spa heviz.hu with amazing kinds of wellness services. Hévíz has a well-developped tourism industry specialized on German and Austrian clients. A trip from Budapest to reach Héviz is about 1.5 hours on highway M7 direction SW.

Sziget Festival 9-16, August 2006 Budapest

Please, learn more about the biggest Central European Rock, Pop and Cultural Festival, which has started today.

www.sziget.hu

Budapest Rally

If you prefer to watch crazy rally race you can do this on this weekend in the middle of Budapest. Please read this short intro:

Rallye-funs, Pilots and Journalists,

the webpage of the Budapest Rallye is now ready for you to search for information in connection with the sixth event of the Hungarian National Rallye Championship, the Michelin-Budapest Rallye.

This is one of the most leading races which will celebrate its jubilee this year as it will be the 20th Budapest Rallye, so the organizers promise a worthy event! On the 11th of August after the opening ceremony by the Parliament the race will start with a prologue over the field of the ice-skating rink in the Városliget (Budapest). Then on Saturday the race will taken to the Mátra but will be back to Hungaroring and again to the ice-skating rink on 13th of August.

All information will be on the webpage till the beginning of the race. We also try to bring you breaking news about the other races during the Hungarian Championship or about the training of the drivers. You can find the result of Budapest Rallye 2005 above by the right side of the page with the Photo gallery (pictures from 2005 so far).

Have a good browse,
Katalin Székely-Nagy
chief of press

You are welcomed to visit the official website of the Budapest Rally:
www.budapestrally.hu

Visit Eger

Today on the way to my hometown, Debrecen www.debrecen.hu we stop by Eger, which is one of the loveliest little towns of North East Hungary. The town has an official website only in Hungarian language www.eger.hu but instead of it I suggest a better English one, which is the www.egeronline.com.

In Eger easy to spend a full day since the town is filled with historical sights like the Eger fortress (Egri vár), Archbishop Palace, Baroque Churches, synagogue and Gothic Palace, etc.

Ooops, I almost forget that Eger is famous about its red wine named "Bikavér" or "Bull Blood", which -I think- competes with the best Bordeaux wines. Be aware also that the towns has thermal spa, where wou can spend another day to relax.

Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix

The following website is the best resource to help your orientation about the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix: www.hungaroring.hu

Rockhoppers.hu

Ooops, and I almost forget to post adress of our 4WD trip website: www.rockhoppers.hu with offroad adventure trip offers in Transylvania and Moldova...

Badacsony Swimming + Wine Tour

At first let me suggest you an excellent place if you like to swim in a beautiful lake and after swimming you prefer to take part in a wine tour by visiting traditional wine cellars. The name of the village is Badacsony located at the Northern shore of the lake Balaton www.balaton.hu. Under this url you can also find and see the map of the traditional wine route of Badacsony:
http://www.badacsony.hu It is about 160 km from Budapest. We provide there guided tours by air conditioned personal cars or with 4WD Landrovers. So if you are interested in this trip please send an e-mail to the danubebendtour@gmail.com address.
Thank you , Tamas

Hi everyone!

We are working on a great blog to inform you about spending great time in Hungary (and in some cases in the surronding countries also, which were long ago part of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy). Me and my friends will suggest here great places to visit in our fantastic country. To have a look please visit first the: www.hungary.com site for general information.

Have a great time with us!