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Day 56-59 [26.11.2009-29.11.2009] Budapest trip
- Sunday, December 20, 2009 -

This trip was quite a special one since that was the first time I was travelling with only Singaporeans. haha. Travelling with Singaporeans was really quite different. Our focus was on FOOD! haha. Most of my money for this trip was spent on food. It's worth it. (: We only took a walking tour and took photos along the way. But quite an interesting tour. For a start, we had a super ZEN hostel room. There was even a dalai lama picture on the wall but I didn't upload the picture here. mayb Facebook (:


Our room. A 6 bed dorm. ZEN and clean!

Our first stop was the Central Market Hall where they sell dried goods, food and vegetables and of cos souvenirs! See the dried stuff they selling together with some dolls.

Their wooden fork and spoon set.

Hungarian speciality--Langos. Taste like you tiao but a flat one. Spread with sour cream and cheese and we added salami to it.
After exploring around, we went to have buffet at SGD$23. It was GOOD! Below is the pastries that I took. Pretty pastries make me happy!


This is their yellow line metro. It's the first metro in the whole Europe (I think).

After the long day, we went into a supermarket and saw this! Mars milk! But guess what, it just tasted like normal chocolate milk.
A brief intro about Budapest. It's in Hungary, in eastern Europe and it was actually formed from two towns/cities--Buda and Pest. And they are now joined by the Chain Bridge.
On the second day, we explored both the Buda and Pest side a bit. First we went to this Cave Church. It's a church in the cave.
View of Cave Church from outside.
In the Cave Church.

Sunset view on Buda side. That was about 4+pm.

Night view of Budapest! (: I think that's the Parliament house.

And guess what, we bought goose liver to cook! REAL GOOSE LIVER~ we only paid like 2+ SGD per person and got to eat DAMN GOOD goose liver.VERY VERY NICE! But sinful, look at the oil on the pan. we didn't add any oil.

On the third day, we went on the walking tour.

I forgot about the meaning of this statue. But people say that when you rub the knees with both hands and make a wish, your wish will come true~

Tree of love locks! This is where couple but a lock and write their names on the lock and throw the key into the waters connecting Buda and Pest. If they break up one day, they would have to get a locksmith to open the lock. haha.

Multi-angle relationship. Complicated *shakes head*

Heh heh, this is clever cos if they break up, they don't have to get a locksmith.

Put up by chinese couple? Or do they have the same meaning in Hungarian as well? I don't know~

There's a small story behind why I took a photo of this lion statue. This is one of the 4 lions on the 4 corners of the Chain Bridge. According to the owner of the hostel, the designer of the Chain Bridge was very confident of his design and believed that there'd be no flaws in this Chain Bridge. And if ever someone finds a flaw, he would jump down from that bridge. And one day, a small kid pointed out that lions are supposed to have tongues but why doesn't this lion statue has tongue. The designer admitted that it was a flaw but didn't jump from the bridge.

Entering the Buda side and in the castle district. That's the castle!

View of the Parliament house from the top of the castle district.

The last communist structure in Budapest. What does it look like? Think straight! :p
Anyway that semi circle thingy on top actually symbolises a turban worn by the communist leader in the past. And that's our tour guide!

This statue used to be rumoured that students who touched it will do very well in their studies and since don't know when, it had a different saying. It is said that whoever touches the balls of the horse will do very well in their sex life. And the tour guide demonstrated and asked who else wanted to touch it. Everyone was feeling awkward and laughed. Then he promised that if there's no improvement after they have touched it, he will return the money they paid him. So this man climbed and his wife was helping him take photos.
Our last stop of the tour was the Fisherman's Bastion. I don't know what exactly it is but it's sooo pretty! I loved it alot. Below are the pictures from Fisherman's Bastion.






And just before leaving Budapest, Serene and I took the wrong direction tram and ended up at the Nyugati train station. This train station is built by the Eifel company. The same company which built Eifel Tower.
Since there already, so took some photos of it. haha. (:

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