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    Balaton puts a bit more heat into autumn

    • 25. October 2014 - by Fruzsina Wilheim in Travel

    Although the summer season is over and the water is too cold for a beach holiday, Lake Balaton can still be an attractive destination for tourists. This is the message[…]

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    Kolkata, a city like few others

    • 12. September 2014 - by BT in Travel

    The metropolitan area of Kolkata presents a perfect picture of modern India along with traditional art and culture. The city, which has witnessed many vicissitudes in the past, still presents[…]

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    ‘Mabuhay’ from the Philippines

    • 6. September 2014 - by BT in Travel

    Hungarians can spend 30 days in the Philippines without a visa. Visitor numbers are consequently hard to come by. The numbers certainly aren’t high, and the South-East Asian nation wants[…]

    The once glorious Károlyi palace

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    Discover the history of crumbling buildings with Beyond Budapest

    A new perspective on well known and lesser known districts

    • 6. September 2014 - by Réka Hamvas in Travel

    Travelling is always fun if you have the money and the time but who says you have to go abroad for great sightseeing? Beyond Budapest offers non-conventional guided city tours[…]

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    The Travelling Times

    This August’s summer break saw The Budapest Times venture to familiar territory in neighbouring Transylvania in Romania and to further afield in pulsating and fascinating Kolkata in India. Next year? Perhaps further still to the 7,107 idyllic tropical islands of the Philippines on the edge of the warm Pacific Ocean, which are looking to attract more Hungarians. This week’s special section may give readers some ideas.

    • 5. September 2014 - by BT in Travel

    Mad dogs and an Englishman Confessions of a young, wild ’traveller-not-a-tourist’ Immediately after completing a three-and-a-half-year journalism apprenticeship in England in 1973, Christopher Maddock set out on an overland trip[…]

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    Snake charmers have gone but the ‘charm’ remains

    Budapest Times staffer Christopher Maddock revisits the fascinating city of Kolkata after almost four decades and finds that while there have naturally been changes, the spirit lives on

    • 5. September 2014 - by BT in Travel

    There used to be snake charmers on the Maidan, the vast green area in the very centre of Calcutta. Turbanned Indians playing pungis, a wind instrument made from a gourd,[…]

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    Mumbai offers a new experience in airports

    • 3. September 2014 - by BT in Travel

    Passengers travelling eastwards from Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc Airport have an opportunity to see Mumbai’s new Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, now surely one of the world’s most beautiful and astonishing airports.[…]

    Indian leopard

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    Vehicles, trains take toll on India’s leopards

    Blockline - A leopard, mowed down by a speeding vehicle, lies on a state highway near Bangalore.

    • 25. August 2014 - by BT in Travel

    Speed has been taking a toll on one of the quicker athletes of the wild. Leopards straying into human habitats to steal the odd goat or hen fit in with[…]

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    Goodbye, Ambassador, India’s slice of automotive history

    Production of the Ambassador, the first car to be made in India, has been halted because of falling demand. Modelled on the Morris Oxford, the car's design has changed little since it first went into production in 1957. But motoring journalist Hormazd Sorabjee is not too upset to see it go.

    • 25. August 2014 - by Hormazd Sorabjee is the editor of Autocar India in Travel

    Generations grew up with this car. It was a taxi for many and a family car for the rich. It transported prime ministers, MPs and bureaucrats. It was truly India’s[…]

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    10 strange things about India

    • 2. July 2014 - by BT in Travel

    The world’s second-most populous and seventh-largest country is also absolutely fascinating with holy cows, red forts, snowy mountains, tropics, public cremations, elephants, the Taj Mahal, vultures, nuclear bombs, gods galore,[…]

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