Destinations

Hungarian Csikos | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

In the dusk we heard the distant snare-drum roll of hooves. A herd on the horizon galloped towards where we stood by a water-crane, a barn and a small hut

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Where the Land Meets the Sky | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

Theirs is an operatically flamboyant outfit; though any temptation to poke fun at the csikós' costume tends to die on the lips when one notes their three-meter, heavy-lashed whips

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Just Plain Riding | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hungarian Plains

A single tree, a grazing bull, even a large bird, can landmark the straight-running skyline like a sudden jump in a flat-drawn line. It makes for Europe's ultimate riding country

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Hungary/Hortobágy National Park | Christopher Somerville | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Hortobagy National Park

Beyond the market causeway the level grasslands of the puszta, the Great Plain of eastern Hungary, stretched away to the horizon. A big blood-red sun hung above the mists. Silhouetted against it stood one of the impassive puszta shepherds, cloaked against the morning chill

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Just Plain Riding | Jasper Winn | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Tisza River

You can ride all day - and that's on good horses, covering long distance - and then ride all the next day and the day after that, too, and never see a fence. Not a single strand of wire, nor one post and rail

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Drink in the Pure Gold of Hungary | Chris Moss | Hungary, other regions of Hungary, Tokaj-Hegyalja

How do you say cheers? I asked. "Easy," came the reply, "it's 'I wish it to your kind health'." And in Hungarian? "Ah, that's kedves egeszsegedre kivanom."

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