Stop #25
This was my second visit to Budapest, with my first visit about 15 or so years ago. The city is as beautiful as I remember it, but this time it felt like there were a lot more tourists. I was probably too ambitious about seeing as much as possible in the day and a half that we spent there, clocking just about 22 miles on my iWatch in one day! But I’ll have great photos to remember this city for the rest of my life, so it was a small price to pay!
There are three additional portfolios for Budapest and the links are below. I wanted to capture more details of each because I remembered them being some of the most incredibly beautiful places from the last time I visited this city.
Highlights:
- Hungarian Parliament – this was one of our first stops. I got pictures just after sunset and during twilight and then returned the next morning for dawn pictures.
- Buda Castle – now a museum, it is the building you see on the hill with the green dome in all the pictures of the Buda side of Budapest.
- Fisherman’s Bastion – I visited early morning to beat tourists and then returned with Randy later in the afternoon.
- Liberty Statue on Gellért Hill – we climbed this hill after I had already been walking around for miles that day, so I was a little pooped at the top.
- Heroes’ Square in City Park – we caught this during the golden hour!
- National Theatre
- St. Stephen’s Basilica – we visited before leaving so I just realized that the photos are still on the memory card in my camera…oops.
- Széchenyi Chain Bridge – the pretty bridge with the lions on each end.
