March 20:
Due to my ill health the previous day we hadn’t yet done
much in Hungary. Fortunately this morning I was in much better spirits and
decided to go on the hostel recommended venture for the day, going caving in
Budapest’s vast system of natural caves. The limestone under the city had been
eroded thousands of years ago by hot geothermal springs leading to a really
neat labyrinth of small, difficult to navigate caves. It was a tonne of fun and
required climbing both up and down some rather difficult walls as well as
shimmying through these impossibly small holes.
I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone with claustrophobia issues though for our group of seven we had a blast. By the time we got back to the hostel the group had left for the night’s scheduled event: a pub crawl through Budapest’s famous ruin bars. The ruin bars are all located in the Jewish quarter of the city and, as the story goes, they were left largely abandoned after their dramatic drop in population involving the Second World War until about twenty years ago someone realized that you could use these old, slightly decrepit residences as drinking establishments. The result is one of a kind. The ruin bars are multi-storied buildings with courtyards at their centers and each one has dozens of rooms with various activities from hookahs to dance floors to bars. It was really unique and I would recommend people of any age to check them out as some of the bars certainly had more of a varying age demographic then others. I spent most of the night with a girl Kati first talking with then taking care of her friend Eloise who had the mixed blessing of turning 21 at midnight.
I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone with claustrophobia issues though for our group of seven we had a blast. By the time we got back to the hostel the group had left for the night’s scheduled event: a pub crawl through Budapest’s famous ruin bars. The ruin bars are all located in the Jewish quarter of the city and, as the story goes, they were left largely abandoned after their dramatic drop in population involving the Second World War until about twenty years ago someone realized that you could use these old, slightly decrepit residences as drinking establishments. The result is one of a kind. The ruin bars are multi-storied buildings with courtyards at their centers and each one has dozens of rooms with various activities from hookahs to dance floors to bars. It was really unique and I would recommend people of any age to check them out as some of the bars certainly had more of a varying age demographic then others. I spent most of the night with a girl Kati first talking with then taking care of her friend Eloise who had the mixed blessing of turning 21 at midnight.
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