I can't believe we've never heard of this before this is so cool but how good is the view
i don't know what's going on and we already have our first wine
we're Jordan and Emily our mission is to see as much of the world as possible before our
money runs out after a quick but amazing stopover in Slovakia where we ate some
incredible traditional food we've made our way to Hungary where the budget kind of got away from us
but we still think it was worth it good morning from Budapest Hungary
in usual Jordan and Emily fashion we spent a good amount of time yesterday researching
a plan of action for today we started very early here in heroes square there is a castle that we're
going to check out that's about 100 meters this way and then we're catching a 40-minute tram all
the way back down to the river where we're going to get a really cool viewpoint from a mountain
and potentially go under the buddha castle in a labyrinth
which I'm really excited about at the very very end of the day the pièce de résistance
and the one thing that is most heavily recommended when you come to Budapest
we are going on a night-time river cruise with unlimited champagne very excited
we've woken up super early again in an effort to try and have all
of the monuments to ourselves it's worked here at heroes square we are by ourselves
the castle is only like a couple hundred meters away so hopefully we're by ourselves there as well
we've both been to Budapest before i've actually been twice and i didn't even know this was here
no i found this because i googled hidden gems in Budapest and this came up and it is
amazing it's such cool architecture it's a castle essentially on a lake and i did read online that
this was modelled after a castle in Romania and we've just decided we're going to go to
Romania yes we're going to see that we're going to see its brother it's very gothic i like it
very gothic let's keep going this is so pretty i can't believe we've never heard of this before
this is so cool apparently it's like a real blend of architecture in here as well it has the gothic
stuff the more Hungarian style stuff i don't know that much about architecture but it looks pretty
i love this one with all the ivy it looks like it's plucked out of a fairy tale
doesn't it look like Rapunzel would be like putting her hair out it really does
yeah add this to your list if you come in here come to this place here and get here really
early i don't know how busy it actually does get when you're here later on but right now having it
almost to yourself except for some really cute dogs running around is
incredible it makes it even better there's all these cute puppies on their morning route
that castle was amazing i loved every bit of that it was so cool to see
now we are catching a tram from the top of hero square all the way down to the
Danube and we're actually crossing from the Pesh side to the Buda side
the bus tickets are 450 HUF each i'm not very good with the coins yet so i
just held out everything we have a nice bus driver counted it out for us but we're on
thank you that bus journey was like two dollars each i think
not only did it save us like an hour walk but we got to sit next to a cute puppy
so well worth the money i think from here on out it's pretty much walking up so yeah
man oh man we're only halfway and it's only like 10 or 15 minutes like
but geez not working out while you're traveling full time really takes its toll
we used to hike so often yeah this should be a breeze but no
i'm sweaty and we may or may not be stopping at every lookout yes because the view is amazing
but also because it's a little break you're so ready for tomorrow to like wipe out any
exercise we've done today yeah by eating our weight in food
absolutely but how good's the view
and we're still not at the top
15 minute hike and it's under construction well at least it was a nice walk this is like
the fifth time we've gotten somewhere and it's been under construction during the peak season
i guess it's good everywhere is doing renovations for tourism and stuff though
it's just annoying that it's everywhere we go
we're walking around the peripherals of it but i don't know if we're gonna be able to get in
or find like another more scenic way down we'll try though
and we're back on the road on the other side of the main bit so hopefully it's not blocked
off at the bottom oh yeah lesson learnt it's a bummer it's closed for renovations luckily we
both have been here before and i'm kind of happy that we got to hike like we got the exercise in
of climbing up anyway which we wouldn't have done if we knew this was shut silver linings
from here it's about 300 meters to our next stop Buda castle where we get to ride a funicular
up which we've actually done before in Vietnam i love them for some reason yeah
but they're really cool like old school and then if all goes to plan the caves underneath
the castle open up at 11 so we want to be there for that and be first in line
so taking the funicular is three thousand HUF to get up and back down which isn't crazy but
it's still a bit out of our price range so i think we might be walking Emily's going to try
and find some other options for us i don't know i really want to do it because i love funiculars
but $24 just to save us some more sweat i think we walk yeah all right we're walking another hike
second hike for the day what's the bet it's going to be closed when we get up there i was
just thinking that we better not be walking all the way up there and it's closed for construction
definitely earning this food tour tomorrow this amazing building behind me is fisherman's bastion
i know nothing about it apart from the fact it is one of the most photographed areas in Budapest
because of the cool architecture
pretty good view though the turrets are really cool like you can go into the ground
level and it's packed because that's the free area i think my favourite thing about
it is the roof it's all so colourful and has like this cool pattern on it
it's officially 10:30 which means the labyrinth should be open we're
a bit confused about it because when you just google the labyrinth that says it's shut today
on one official website it says it opens at 10:30 today and then on
another official looking website it says it's temporarily closed so fingers crossed
so we're in the labyrinth now and from what i understand it's 4,000 meters of just natural
cave structures that they've sort of walled out to give it more structural integrity but it's
freezing cold down here there's all these creepy like sculptures that they've dotted around
i don't know what's going on if you turn that we have the light turned on right now
but it is pitch black if you turn it off creepy
the ominous opera music makes this so much worse
so the story goes that apparently these this labyrinth was used to
house Dracula it definitely was used as a prison for some people so freaky let's go deeper
wow this is nice couldn't have been an adrenaline rush
that was really cool lens apparently hundreds of thousands of years old these caves are and
they found tools from homo-erectus 350 000 years old they think crazy definitely do this if you're
here in summer because you cool down so much oh yeah may as well be a cold shower it was fantastic
when you come to Budapest definitely go through the labyrinth it is very very cool
i think it was just i'm still on edge from the lab
from here i think we're going to go grab something to eat to fill our bellies before we go on this
cruise i'm so excited for this cruise it's going to be so fancy drinking sparkling wine
is it fancy? i don't know if it's fancy but sparkling wine yeah it's got wine.
we have changed the sun is about half an hour from setting and we're on the way to the boat
fancy cruise time
we made it on board and we're on the top deck and i think we're on the good side
that was so anxiety-inducing there is like a horde of people there we thought it was
going to be a line but it was just everyone climbing together trying to get him first
luckily we were there pretty early so we got on first and we already have our first one
i just finished my drink really quickly i didn't spill it
my wet table would think
it's unlimited