Eastern Europe Day 11 Budapest [[Castle Hill]]

Our last day in Budapest was spent on the Buda side, up on Castle Hill! Castle Hill is pretty interesting as a whole with a fantastic view of Pest from Buda side! We really did enjoy ourselves very much despite the melt down we experience under the scorching sun.

There are two ways which Castle Hill can be access: either by climbing or taking the cable car. In lieu of the weather, we chose to take the cable car. Ticketing counter is just at the bottom of the hill, infront of the cable car track. Its hard to miss since there will always be a snake long queue.

Once we arrived, we were greeted by the great magnificent view of Pest! Great great love for it!

All attractions, mostly museums, are all chargable for admission. We decided not to visit any and just wandered around, soaking in the surrounding atmosphere.

Castle Hill, although small and walkble to every attractions, took us about 5 hours to complete visiting the free attractions around the town. Hence, if you will like to include visits to the museums, you will have to allocate a full day!

Oh, the Labyrinth museum is the only paid museum we visited as we passed by it while heading back to the cable car station. This is a creepy yet forgettable museum which other than the air conditional facility, has nothing much to offer. At least, it bored us and we didn't feel its worth the 2000Ft per pax (approx. S$10).

We headed back to Pest for lunch and chilled the afternoon away before heading to the train station to catch our train back to Berlin.

As I mentioned before, the train station is relatively backwards. Hence, do not expect any shower facilities. Bring wet wipes to wipe down. Brushing and washing of face can be done on the train's toilet.

After collecting our luggage from the storage area, we headed to the station board to look for our train track number and realised, the train had arrived! We made our way to the train and were pleasantly surprised at how spacious the seats were despite it being second class. Much much better than the train we took from Prague to Budapest.

So our 14 hours journey began and we survived back in Berlin at 9.30am the next day! Hooray!!!

Will be summarizing the trip in my next post so do stay tune to it! :)

Eastern Europe 2015 Day 1: Berlin [[ Sony Center + Toppertory of Terror + Charlie Checkpoint + East Side Gallery + Museum Island + Berlin Dome + Curry wrust + Vapiano ]
Eastern Europe 2015: Day 2 Berlin [[ Reichstag + Brandenburg Gate + Memorial to Murdered Jews of Europe + Unter den Linden + Gendarmen Market]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 3 Krakow [[ Main Square + Cloth Hall + St. Mary Church + KoKo + Galeria Mall]]
Eastern Europe 2015: Day 4 Krakow [[ Wawel Castle +  Kazimierz, Jewish District + Galica Museum + Hero Square + Oskar Schindler's Factory]]
Eastern Europe 2015: Day 5 Krakow [[ Auschwit Concentration Camp ]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 6 Prague [[ Leo Express + Bredovsky Dvur + Main Square + Old Town + Charles Bridge]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 7 Prague [[Astronomical Clock Show + Old Town Hall Tower + Jewish District + Powder Tower + Manufaktura + Lokal + Kredenc]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 8 Prague [[Prague Castle + Petrin Hill]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 9 Budapest [[Market Square + Chain Bridge]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 10 Budapest [[Parliament House + Memorial of the Russian Army + St Stephan Basalica + Hero Square + Szechenyi Thermal Bath]]
Eastern Europe 2015 Day 12 Berlin