During your three-day stay, there are at least three things that are recommended for you to do:

First, visit a bath house and make sure you spend enough time with relaxing your muscles and refresh yourself. Covers are about 10 Euros including all facilities but the massages and beauty treatments. Secondly, try to visit some local markets and look for the strudel stalls and where you can try the typical Hungarian poppy-seed and cabbage strudels. Also you definitely want to taste the fried salty dough topped by cheese, sour cream and ham called Langos. At night check out the "ruin pubs" and "ruin gardens" of the Jewish Quarter. Enjoy the best Hungarian DJ music, the cheap drinks and the nice crowd. Night life usually starts after 9 p.m. After midnight Hungarians usually go dancing.

In Budapest most of the must see sights are within walking distance. To make the most out of your three day visit join one of the Free Budapest Walking Tours each day to learn about the history, society, architecture while seeing the hidden sights you could not otherwise do without the tips of an insider and about what the Hungarians are actually like.

First day take the General sightseeing tour, visit the Castle Hill and the inner city of Budapest. Sights of the Castle Hill includes the Royal Palace ( the seat of the Hungarian Kings until the end of the 15th century) the Holy Trinity Square, The Matthias Church and The Fischerman Bastion. Sights of the inner city include: the Municipal Concert Hall, the Danube Promenade, the St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Parliament and the Chain Bridge.

Second day try to visit the second largest synagogue in the world called Dohany Synagogue and the other spiritual cornerstones of the Jewish Quarter. If you want to save time and energy, join the Free Jewish Walking Tour.

Third day you may want to visit the Communist sights of Budapest. There are quite a few hidden memorials to see in the inner city of Budapest. Just few examples: the last Soviet Heroic memorial of Budapest, the Communist housing estates, the nuclear military bunker, and other symbols of the Soviet friendship. These can be visited on your own but to understand the history politics, ideology, economy, mentality, and oppression of the Communist decades that no guidebook has detailed information on. Believe it or not there no insider stories written by people who actually lived in the Communism and experienced it, which is why your best guess for a complete and global description on the Hungarians is to join the Free Communist Walking Tour.

Have a wonderful day in Budapest!

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Last edited Sep 30, 09 6:54 AM. Contributors: Agnes M.