Budapest !
Spring Festival Tour!
Folk Dancing, Folk Music, Culture, Art, History, Adventure!

When: March 19 -29, 2010

Led by: Adam Molnar

Featuring:

  • Villages, crafts people, and local folk groups!
  • National Táncház (folk dance) Festival and Craft Fair!
  • Spring Festival concerts, ballets, and operas!
  • Rehearsal of professional folk dance ensemble!
  • Bela Bartok House and Institute of Musicology!
  • Jewish heritage tour of Budapest!
  • Folklore restaurants, bathe in spas, good shopping!

Price includes:

  • Round trip air
  • Transfers
  • Hotels
  • Private bus
  • English speaking guide entrance fees
  • Two meals daily (in Budapest)
  • City sightseeing.
  • Concert tickets
 
Price:

Land only: $2995

About Adam Molnar
Adam has his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies, and has lectured in the history, languages, anthropology, and religious history of Central Asia at the University of Szeged, Southern Hungary. His book, "Weather-Magic in Inner Asia" was published in Bloomington, Indiana. He is Secretary of the International Society for Shamanistic Research, publishes Shaman, thejournal of the society, as well as a book series and the Journal of Hungarian Heritage for the European Folklore Institute. As a guide, he offers programs in Hungarian folk dance, music and crafts.
Our Itinerary Map

Day 1: March 19, Friday:
Departure from Newark Airport in New Jersey.

Day 2: March 20, Saturday:
Arrive in Budapest. Meet our guide, Adam Moln·r. Transfer to
hotel. Orientation walk and dinner. The world famous 100-Member Gypsy Band will welcome us by giving an evening concert!

Day 3: March 21, Sunday:
Half-day sight-seeing in Budapest. Lunch at Gundel Restaurant ("Best Restaurant Central Europe"). See the Bartok Memorial house. Visit a folk music club.

Day 4: March 22, Monday:
Visit to the Institute of Musicology (Folk Music and Dance
Department). Tour of the Buda Castle Hill district. Dinner and evening dance program.

Day 5: March 23, Tuesday:
Full-day trip to the Danube Bend, including the town of
Esztergom, the mediaeval Hungarian capital, the Castle of Visegrad and the art colony of Szentendre. Lunch en route in a venison restaurant.

Day 6: March 24 Wednesday:
Half-day sight-seeing: Jewish Budapest. Dinner. Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Greek dance evening.

Day 7: March 25, Thursday:
Visit the rehearsal of the Hungarian State Folk Dance Ensemble. In the afternoon "The Music Tour of Budapest": guided tour on the Opera House and the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum. Dinner in a typical Hungarian restaurant with Gypsy Music.

Day 8: March 26, Friday:
Full-Day trip to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site of the
village of Holloko. Meet local craftspeople. Lunch with the villagers. Evening concert and folk dance performances and tanchaz in the Hungarian Heritage House (Center of the Hungarian State folk Dance Ensemble), this event is the opening of the National Tanchaz Festival.

Day 9: March 27, Saturday:
National Tanchaz Festival and Folk Craft Fair. A two-day meeting of singers, dancers and craftspeople which has become the Who's Who of folk events! Performance, folk dancing, folk dance instruction and shopping at the fair. Dinner.

Day 10: March 28, Sunday:
Full day at the National Tanchaz Festival & Folk Craft Fair. A
two-day meeting of singers, dancers and craftspeople which has become the Who's Who of folk events! Farewell dinner in the Matthias Cellar, one of the best restaurants in Budapest, Gypsy music.

Day 11: March 29 Monday:
Morning transfer to airport. Fly back to the US.