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 BUDAPEST CITY TOURduration:4 hours for half day or 7-8 hours for full day tour.
The river Danube divides the city into two parts: the hilly right side with the Castle Hill for her charming squares, narrow twisting streets, and fantastic views over the city. Essentials:
• BUDA Mathias Church, Fisherman's Bastion, Royal Palace courtyards, Castle Museums and the Citadel
• PEST The Parliament, State Opera House, Heroes' Square, the Museum of Fine Arts, the central Thermal Baths , the Capital's Largest Covered Market, Europe's largest Synagogue in the Jewish city area... and many other beautiful and interested sites to explore with me.
 Walking tour of PEST DOWNTOW and enjoy the nice architecture.(half day walking tour)
Come to explore this elegant UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, lined with trees and a wealth of beautiful apartments buildings.
Chain bridge, Gresham Palace, St. Stephen cathedral, Liberty square, National Bank, Parliament house, 1956 revolution monuments, State Opera House and the elegant Pest's greatest boulevard, which become the new fashion street of Budapest.
Visit inside to a noble palace style Apartment Museum with oak ceiling decoration, furniture and frescoes of the Hungarian high aristocracy. Museums, magnificent palace-buildings, many history and story at every corner.
Sit for a coffee on a terrace at the Budapest Music Academy and listen to the music coming out of the windows, walk to the extraordinary Terror House Museum to understand tears and terror during the past Communism time.
 EXPLORE JEWISH HERITAGE IN BUDAPEST(half or full day tour)
Jewish cultural and religious heritage in Budapest represents one of the largest Jewish population's history in Europe. Around 90,000 Jewish practice active life and culture in Budapest. Our tour starts at the St. Stephen Park with the Holocaust Memorial, continuing to the Danube river embankment to view a new monument The SHOES for Jewish people killed there during the Holocaust • We proceed to the Main Synagogue complex: visit the Synagogue, cemetery, Tree of Life in the Park, Jewish Museum, then we walk to an other Synagogue (from outside), Carl Lutz Memorial, Main Orthodox Synagogue. Trough the small streets of the former Ghetto we arrive to the new Holocaust Memorial Center of Budapest and follow the tour of this extraordinary exhibition.
 EVENING CITY TOUR(half day tour in the evening)
Take an evening tour to explore the lights of a fascinating city. The tour organized by car, brings you to the highlights of Budapest: Castle district with its romantic old houses, view to the river Danube from Fisherman's Bastion, the old Chain Bridge lights, Gresham Four Season luxury hotel (outside), the Parliament area and Liberty Square, St. Stephen Basilica, pedestrian roads, view the evening life on the promenade of the river bank, Andrassy Blvd with its elegant buildings, Hero's Square statues, the old Castle in the City Park, the modern National Theater and Concert Center at the modern bridge: We take a final look to the city from the Citadel. You will enjoy a welcome drink and free entrance in an elegant Casino in downtown.
 GARDENS AND CASTLES (around Budapest)(full day tour)
Escape from the busy city and take a deep breath of fresh air, enjoy the gardens, flowers, and mystic castles. • We first stop at the Margaret Island and walk around the island, famous for the most beautiful flower garden of Budapest. We proceed to City Park and visit the Castle and the Thermal Bath. After this pleasant walk, we travel 25 km outside the city, to visit the Baroque-style Summer Castle of Emperors.
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 TRANSFER TO VIENNA:
EXPESS NON STOP or STOP IN GYOR or DRIVE TROUGH the Danube bend.
If you make a calculation, how long time you loose with stressed travel to get from your hotel to airport, than to your new hotel, you can enjoy a better solution: take my car transfer service door to door and you do not have to touch anymore your suitcases.
  SWEET COUNTRYSIDE exploration Half day drive where tourist bus does not go...
Come to explore the nice rural countryside around Budapest. This is a customized pleasant excursion both for natural lovers and old history explorers. Enjoy the amazing landscapes that you will meet during this relax tour:
Zsambek - late Roman style abbey ruins (entrance fee included),
Tok - traditional village with flower decorated rural houses, horse farm
with sunflower field in the country, line of cellars to taste the local Chardonnay wine, Piliscsaba - famous for its modern organic style university buildings and finally stop in a grandma style restaurant and eat as locals do here.
 DANUBE BEND TOUR(full day tour)
This is a pleasant excursion both for natural lovers, architecture and old city explorers. We start first in ESZTERGOM, the oldest town of Hungary. Take a view from the castle, visit the bigger catholic church of the country. Baroque downtown and drive trough the historic bridge to see Esztergom from a new country, from Slovakia. Next we stop at VISEGRAD, driving up to the old ruins of the Citadel. Next town is famous for his colored houses, narrow charming roads, antique shops, museums and a lively movement atmosphere, SZENTENDRE. Good shopping, eating before going back home.
 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN HUNGARY, ON THE ROAD OF WINES(full day tours)
This tours bring you to the UNESCO World Heritage protected sites of Hungary. You cross our country from West to East to explore beautiful scenery and country sites, monuments, buildings, treasures of the Central European nature and culture.
Tour 1, GO WEST: we drive trough the green Pannonia, stop for a refreshment walk in a nice castle park, stop for a detailed visit at PANNONHALMA (millinery Benedictine Abbey and cloister visit), we continue to the unique thermal Lake HEVIZ, at the birthplace of bathing culture, world's second-largest thermal lake, covered with India red water lilies. Continue to KESZTHELY to visit a notable historical landmark in town: the nation's third largest palace, the Noble Castle.
Tour 2, GO EAST:
On the path of queen Sissy... we stop at GODOLLO Royal Summer Castle for a visit, than follow up to the hills to explore a small hidden village HOLLOKO with peasant county homes and beautiful folk art dressing of local rural dressed ladies. Continue to an other history town EGER for her baroque churches, houses, old fort, symbol for the heroic wars. This is a famous wine area of Hungary, famous for the red wine (Bull's Blood).The best place to sample local wines is in the cellars (more than 200) of Valley of the Beautiful Women and cheers with happy local wine-friends.
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 LAKE BALATON AND HEREND(full day tour)
The lake, Central Europe's largest freshwater blue-green colored lake, some 60 miles southwest of Budapest, is Hungary's number one vacation resort and a major wine-producing region. We start our tour at the Porcelain Manufacture. You participate on a professional guided tour, organized by the factory, visit of the museum and you will have time enough in the factory's shop, where the prices are reasonable • We proceed to the lake and walk to the port of Balatonfured, taking pictures of swans, nice gardens and promenade • Have a breathtaking view from the baroque Abbey of TIHANY. Lunch brake and walk and cross the lake by a ferry.
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