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Lake Balaton & Southern Transdanubia
Includes Why Go? Lake Balaton Region. .190 Extending roughly 80km like a skinny, lopsided paprika, at Balatonfüred. . . . .190 first glance Lake Balaton seems to simply be a happy, sunny Tihany ...... 194 expanse of opaque tourmaline-coloured water in which to Keszthely...... 198 play. But step beyond the beaches of Europe’s biggest and shallowest body of water and you’ll encounter vine-filled Southern forested hills, a national park and a wild peninsula jutting Transdanubia . . . . 205 out 4km, nearly cutting the lake in half. Oh, and did we Pécs ...... 205 mention Hungary’s most famous porcelain producer and a Mohács...... 214 hilltop fairy-tale fortress? Then there’s Southern Transdanubia, where whitewashed farmhouses with thatched roofs dominate a countryside that hasn’t changed in centuries. Anchoring its centre is one of Hungary’s most alluring cities, Pécs, where a Mediterra- Best Places to Eat nean feel permeates streets filled with relics of Hungary’s ¨¨Zsolnay Restaurant Ottoman past and a head-spinning number of exceptional (p212) museums. Beyond, a clutch of medieval castles enchant and ¨¨Bistro Sparhelt (p193) vineyard cellars beckon you to wine-taste your heart out. ¨¨Baricska Csárda (p193) ¨¨Jókai Bisztró (p211) ¨¨Régi Idők Udvara Skanzen When to Go és Étterem (p197) Pecs °C/°F Temp Rainfall inches/mm ¨ ¨Paletta Keszthely (p203) 30/86 6/150
20/68 4/100 Best Places 10/50 to Sleep 2/50 0/32 ¨¨Gombás Kúria Mansion (p192) -10/14 0 J FDM A M J J A S O N ¨¨Kora Panzió (p197) ¨¨Adele Boutique Hotel Apr–May Lake Jul–Aug Hot and Sep–Oct Fewer (p210) Balaton resorts humid but guaran- crowds around begin to open and teed sunny days/ Lake Balaton and ¨¨Club Hotel Füred (p192) Southern Trans- balmy nights; high mild temps; may ¨¨Bacchus (p203) danubia bursts season around be the best time with flowers. Lake Balaton. to visit.
Fenékpuszta Tab Fonyód Balatonberény
Simontornya Lake Ba Balatonlaton & Southern & Southern Transdanu Tranbias Badanulatonb ia& Sou thern Transdanubia Highlights
Balatonboglár
Gyenesdias L a k e k a L Keszthely factory. factory.
Balatonlelle
B'lábdihegy
188 porcelain famous
B a l a t o n o t a l a B B'tomaj
Szigliget
Hévíz
ceramics at the the at ceramics
B'örs Kªröshegy 65
Badacsonytördemic Balatonföldvár
Salföld
goldish-hued goldish-hued
Révfülöp
Szántódpuszta
Káptalantóti
Balatonkiliti
the greenish- and and greenish- the Kªvágóörs National Park National
Szántód Mindszentkálla
Zánka Uplands
plus marvelling at at marvelling plus Basin
Balatonszabadi
Köveskál Köveskál Sárbogárd Balaton Siófok
Tapolca Kál
Tihany
lively university town, town, university lively
FEJÉR Enying
E71
B a k o n y n o k a B
Hegyes-t¬ coffee shops in this this in shops coffee
M7
Sóstó craft beer bars and and bars beer craft
Balatonfüred
Lepseny excellent museums, museums, excellent
Nagyvázsony
Sümeg
Checking out the the out Checking Balatonakarattya
Balatonalmádi Tótvázsony
Nyirád
Pécs
(p205) (p205) 3
Balácapuszta
Balatonkenese and bars by night. by bars and H i l l s l l i H
VESZPRÉM Polgárdi
Balatonf¬zfª Tác
lakeside restaurants restaurants lakeside
84
Seregélyes
capital, then hitting hitting then capital,
Veszprém Ajka
Devecser
Szabadbattyán Berhida
Herend in the Lake Balaton Balaton Lake the in
E73
7 Pusztaszabolcs
E66
swimming and cycling cycling and swimming
E66
M7 8
M6
8
Agárd paddleboarding, paddleboarding,
Gárdony
82
Várpalota (p190) Sailing, Sailing, (p190) 83
SZÉKESFEHÉRVÁR
Balatonfüred
2
Pákozd
lakeside village. lakeside Velence
Lake
Celldömölk most picture-perfect picture-perfect most Zirc
beer in Hungary’s Hungary’s in beer
a home-brewed home-brewed a Martonvásár
81
7 E71 Church and sipping sipping and Church
Pápa
M7
around in the the in around bbey bbey A
811
Mór 82
peninsula, poking poking peninsula,
(25km)
Wandering the wild wild the Wandering Budapest
Tihany (p194) (p194) 1
83 Highlights Rába iver R
Transdanubia Transdanubia Oroszlány
Bicske & Southern Southern &
M1 Kisbér
Lake Balaton Balaton Lake
SOPRON
ESZTERGOM GY«R-MOSON-
Tatabánya KOMÁROM- Pannonhalma
E75
latonaton & Southern & Southern Transdanu Tranbias Badanulatonb ia& Sou thern Transdanubia Highlights
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