Slätt i ungern pusztan
More in Travel. Later, we reached a meadow with some neglected farmhouses as well as a simple memorial. A short walk took us to the bungalow of Albert and Judit Hajdu. A print in our living room had depicted cowboys in billowy trousers galloping across the wheat fields and shepherds in floor-length sheepskin robes. Det kan även betyda en avlägset liggande lantgård omgiven av. The meal was exceptional. On the road, Albert pointed out clusters of fall aster and blackthorn, wild pear trees and lustrous rosehip bushes, looking as though they were on fire in the setting autumn sun.
Built at the end of the 18th century, this inn, like others in the region, was a popular resting spot for cattlemen and shepherds, as well as traveling merchants selling salt from the mines of Maramures County in present-day Romania.
6. The Hungarian Puszta (Hortobágy National Park/UNESCO World Heritage Site)
A nap afterward would have been welcome, but I had arranged to ride. Det syftar oftast på stäppartadeområden inom det stora ungerska slättlandet.[1] Puszta kommer av ett adjektivmed samma form, vilket betyder "kal, tom, berövad". Albert leaped onto his own horse and then led me outside the courtyard. These farmhouses, Albert said, had served as quarters for one of those labor camps. It was an escape, a yearning for beauty amid economic malaise and depressing city life.
She drove me past stalks of sunflowers and cornfields baking in the early autumn sun, with bicyclists — teenagers as well as seniors — weaving in and out of traffic. I could see large nests atop chimneys.
Hajdu Lovasudvar: Hortobagy, Sarkadi Imre u. A Hungarian bed-and-breakfast designed like a Swiss chalet, with a pretty courtyard and sauna.
A steppe in the heart of Europe
I was especially eager to go horseback riding in the area. This traditional whitewashed half-timbered inn has outdoor seating and a museum of Puszta memorabilia. After checking into the Sovirag Hotel just off of the main road in Hortobagy, we sat for lunch outside at a nearby roadside inn, the Hortobagyi Csarda. Albert soon vanished around the side of the house andreappeared leading two horses. The hosts, neither of whom spoke English, greeted us warmly.
Before long, I was sitting atop Madar, or Birdy. The owners speak Hungarian, German and French. He dressed as a driver from an earlier time, with a black vest and riding boots, and a feather in his fedora. The next day, Reka and I met Albert for a wooden carriage ride. When he died, in , I was all the more determined to see this mystical region that filled his imagination, and that he had, sight unseen, vividly described for me when I was a child.
He had had no choice, I thought — but no, he had, and he chose freedom. Pusta(ungerska: puszta, uttalas "possta") är begrepp som ofta associeras till det traditionella ungerskalandskapet. More than bird species, including herons, egrets, warblers, eagles and cranes are sighted in the Hortobagy National Park annually. I was keen to see this landscape that my father, a mostly irascible man, admired as much as Gabor did — though my father never had the chance to travel there himself.
In the early s — when Hungary was still deeply cloaked within the Iron Curtain, when grocery lines wrapped around city blocks, infrastructure crumbled and travel outside the country was restricted — my uncle Gabor in Budapest saved what money he could and headed for the scenic grasslands in the east. When Stalin died in , the camps were dismantled, and almost no trace of them was left. Artiklar i kategorin "Slätter i Ungern" Följande 7 sidor (av totalt 7) finns i denna kategori.