Type:

Guided

Participants:

Min. /max. 3-6 riders

Grade:

Strong Intermediate+

Length:

7 nights

Board:

full board

Dates:

All year round

Price:

 € 980

Transfer (shuttle) from Budapest Ferihegy Airport to Ruzsa. This 1 ½ hour trip will take you through the Hungarian Southern Great Plain with its distant horizon where the sky is touching the ground. After passing charming villages, leave the public streets and continue on sandy roads leading to the secluded farmstead. Meet your local hosts and their staff who will show your guestrooms, the farm and the horses. In the evening they will arrange the typical Hungarian meal “Bogrács” Goulash cooked in stew-pot on open fire. Dine and get to know each other. Then your tour-guide will give details of your week-long program.

Farmers breakfast with Hungarian specialties will surely make a real good start for your first day. Then off you go to meet a special breed, the Hungarian Sport Horse –Warmblood on hand in a well-equipped stable. All horses stand tall with a good appearance and will carry you with confidence and sure trots and gallops through the terrain. In the round pen you may find your best horse and saddle for your own comfort. A first ride into the neighborhood  will give you a chance to taste how it feels like to be in the middle of the endless meadows and fields. In the evening you will be served some traditional Hungarian meal together with the indispensable local moonshine, the infamous “Palinka”

After breakfast, saddle your horse, take your picnic lunch pack then off you ride on your first trail. You will ride past local farmlands under crop, homesteads and barns run by farmers in traditional ways. Do not miss to have a close encounter “type three” with the world famous Hungarian red pepper or paprika. It is so hot that it takes your breath away. Then have break at the hot springs at Erzsebet Spa in Mórahalom. Dine at the tavern to taste the splendid local dishes.

Meet for an early breakfast. This morning you will set off for a long ride through the forests with a good chance to see some of the local wildlife like pheasants, rabbits, red-deer’s or even wild-boars. A remote spot will surprise you with a traditional menu cooked by local hunters.

Fine breakfast followed by a half day ride across a wild and romantic puszta landscape – a revelation of sheer natural beauty. In the afternoon you will leave the tranquil puszta and visit Szeged, the city of sunshine. Along the river Tisza the avenues and boulevards with a strikingly homogenous architecture that preserves the Eclecticism and Art Nouveau of the turn of the century stun visitors with the atmosphere of a quiet college town. You may have a break at a classy café, visit the cathedral, the unique synagogue or just relax at the Thermal Spa. At the end of the day taste the famous spicy fish-soup called Halászlé cooked from a selection of local freshwater fish.

Hearty breakfast. Then off you ride again to see the Hungarian longhorn, the formidable and exceptional ‘Mangalicza’ pig (Revoke your memories of tasty bacons and hams.) and long-wool sheep. Watch some herds moving and grazing in endless and undisturbed meadows. In the evening you should not miss to taste some local specialties at the so called “Szalonasütes” a barbeque from pig fat with delicious spices and side dishes.

Fry-up. Today's ride will lead past wine yards and a National Park area with old oak-trees then you will have to gallop through water and a Sea of Reeds. Have a picnic-break in the fields or under a nice tree to energize for some long distance trots and gallops along fields and sandy roads. Say good by to this land and the horses, but promise to come back again. A chill-out in a well temperate wine-cellar awaits you to taste of the regional wines served with typical homemade salami, ham and cheese.

Breakfast. Transfer to Budapest.