Washing Away a Year’s Woes on a Water-Infused Getaway: Hungary, My Home By Diane Dobry Away from Home
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here’s no place like home, and for me, there is no place like my Hungarian second home to allow me to gather with friends in relaxing ways. After a year of isolation and a long stretch of not traveling, I would rst head straight for the center of Europe to be among those who share my heritage
TripAdvisor. Here the lake reportedly reaches a temperature of 40˚C (104˚F). I have had my eye on this lily pad dotted lake, where visitors soak languorously in the warm waters oating in big red rubber tubes. Private tours include transportation and hotel stays, initiating with pick-up from Budapest locations.
Tapolca Lake Cave
Thermal Baths by the Thousand Hungary has close to 1,300 natural sources of hot thermal waters running beneath the land and 220 thermal locations throughout the country. According to Thermal Hungary, it is the “country of the spa.” In addition to the more famous spas of Budapest, there are many more thermal locations I am longing to try — from thermal lakes to cave baths, resorts, and a new futuristic thermal park.
Not far from the lake at Héviz is the Lake Cave in Tapolca, an underground cave and waterway discovered over 100 years ago. Though it is not a thermal bath, with an underground boat experience, a small, attached museum, and a constant 68˚F air temperature, it is a good reprieve in the heat of summer. Considering boat rowing and navigation, though, it may be a tour best done with a friend
Debrecen Futuristic Thermal Par Thermal Lake of Héviz At the very northwestern tip of Lake Balaton, in the town of Keszthely (about a three-hour drive west of Budapest), is the “biggest biologically active natural medicinal water in the world,” according to
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Plans for a futuristic family water park in Debrecen, Hungary, began pre-COVID, and has now opened. Debrecen is the country’s second largest city, 150 miles east of Budapest. Though the diving pool and 30- and 50-meter swimming pools are not my rst choice, the
