The next day, I was really excited because we were going caving!! Grace's friend had told her about doing this, so we had bought tickets ahead of time. We went for a jog earlier that morning (crazy, right), and then we got ready to go! We met up with the group, and it was pretty cool because it was a bunch of young people from Germany, America, Ireland, etc. We took two buses to the site, where we got our mining uniforms and headed down.
We left around 6 pm, and by that time I was starving and hangry!! Poor Grace. We popped into the mall to eat a little at the food court (sorry!! I just didn't have any patience to look for food), and then after we rested at the hotel, we dragged our butts back up to find a bar.
We wandered around after taking our favorite metro, and we found this really cool indoor food/drink vendor area. The floor was all white stones, and after you walked through the plastic sheets/doors, you saw two rows of food stands on both sides of you, selling crepes, beers, etc, and in the middle was a line of picnic tables. It was so hippy and cool! I'd go there every night if I lived in Budapest. We got a beer and some cheese dumplings and a crepe and then headed home. I wish I took some pictures!
Don't we look cool?
This was such a cool experience though--I'm so glad Grace found out about this! We climbed through tiny holes, lots of crevasses, slid through more holes... I felt like either a mole person or Indiana Jones. By the end, I was so tired and hungry!! Our guide was great--she went through the cave like a little tiger.
She spent a lot of time talking about the sediments and the rocks, but she had a pretty heavy Hungarian accent so I only understood a quarter of what she was saying. I can barely understand these rock words in English anyway!
This is an example of the tiny holes we had to go through. I almost got stuck in one and started to panic, but luckily I wiggled through. So scary!!
This is a picture of one of the crevasses that we traveled through, right before I fell and busted my butt haha
The group of kids was really nice too--everyone was really funny and interested. My favorite part was when our guide led us to a big auditorium looking part of the cave, and we sat in complete pitch darkness and silence as she sang us a hauntingly beautiful Hungarian folk song to us to show us the acoustics of the cave. I won't forget that!
We wandered around after taking our favorite metro, and we found this really cool indoor food/drink vendor area. The floor was all white stones, and after you walked through the plastic sheets/doors, you saw two rows of food stands on both sides of you, selling crepes, beers, etc, and in the middle was a line of picnic tables. It was so hippy and cool! I'd go there every night if I lived in Budapest. We got a beer and some cheese dumplings and a crepe and then headed home. I wish I took some pictures!
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