Sunday, September 13, 2009

My last daz in Budapest has been beautiful.  I spent almost the entire day at the public bath house.  There are dozens of bathes there and several saunas as well.  It is really an amazing place.  Full of people smiling and having a good time.  The city has been real pleasant.  I went to the Museum of Terror which is a museum based in a building that was occupied subsequently by the natzies and then the AVO (the Hungarian KGB), and was used as a prison and executin chamber for both these asociations.  Now it is converted into a modern educational art museum with several floors of gruesumming horror.  I also went to the Hungarian zoo which was quite big and an interesting place to wander around in alone.  Much of the city itself is a UNESCO heritage site because of its unique and old architecture.  the hostel I am staying at is itself a protected UNESCO site!  The funest thing to do here is to rent a bike and go around the city, and especially veiwing the Danube at night.  It is interesting to think of all the tribes of peoples that migrated through this region: Celts, Romans, Magars... It is really an amazing place.  the hungarian language itself dervies from a language distantly related to Turkish, Estonain and finish.  The Magyars were a Central Asian people who migrated to this region and that is where the language suposidly originated. 


Ready for Fall shows? Use Bing to find helpful ratings and reviews on digital tv's. Click here.

No comments:

Post a Comment