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Escorted Cycling
2008 
 Hungarian Spa Tour
 

This guided tour crosses the plains of Hungary - ideal flat easy cycling - and gives you the opportunity to experience Hungary's amazing health spas and thermal springs.

Cost per person:   
545 UK      $1139.00 Cdn  based on double.
Single supplement $419 Cdn .

2008 Tour Dates:  May 17
                            June  7, 14, 28 
                            July   5, 12, 19, 26  
                            Aug 2, 16, 23
                            Sept 6, 20

Duration: 7 nights

Tour profile:  Daily distance 27 - 30 miles.
Grading: Easy flat terrain 

Bikes: 18 speed hybrid bike.  We recommend bringing your own helmet.

Included:  Seven nights accommodation (double occupancy). Breakfast and Dinner daily, Guided cycling, Luggage transfer, 21-speed bike, Five thermal bath entries, Budapest city tour.

Meeting point: The tour starts and finishes in Budapest, Hungary.

Budapest Spa Tour  - Itinerary

Day One: Arrive in Budapest and overnight. Budapest by Night excursion.

Day Two: Transfer by bus to Szolnok-on-the-Tisza. Here you collect you bike and then cycle through a conservation area and picturesque villages to Kunhegyes where your first thermal bath awaits.  (28 miles)

Day Three: Cycle to Lake Tisza and then to Tiszaors-Furdo Spa (30 miles)

Day Four: Hortobagy Puszta is a World Heritage Site. The bird reserve is part of the Hortobagy National Park with a beautiful heron colony. The flood plain forest is filled with bird song. We continue to Mata where we stay at an excellen hotel with an unusual pool with a wooden roof. (27 miles).

Day Five: Mata to Nadudvar. Experience the famous Puszta (Great Plain) filled with bird life. Then cycle to the famous nine-holed bridge a the border of Hortobagy Village Then on to Nadudvar, which is known for its pottery.  (30 miles)

Day Six: 
Hajduszoboszlo.  A most popular resort on the Great Plain. Here is the grandest Hungarian thermal spa with 17 pools. Continue to Hajduszovat, an old hussar village. (24 miles).

Day Seven: Return by bus to Budapest for a sightseeing tour. Overnight in Budapest.

Day Eight: End of tour after breakfast.

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