Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. With green filled parks full of charming pleasures, museums that will inspire, and a pulsating nightlife that is on par to its European counterparts, Budapest is one of Europe's most delightful and enjoyable cities. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe.

Budapest is better known as Mecca for shoppers. With big and small beautiful shopping malls, the city has set a discernable trend as a shopping destination. The beautiful West End City Centre is the largest shopping mall of Budapest. The enigmatic architectural creation would make you stop and stare even before you start shopping. The best shopping items include: antique picture frames, cheese, pipes, tobacco, age old books, Wagner manuscripts, antique clocks, Tokaji Wine, Unicum, Red Paprika, photographs, Herend Porcelain etc.

The most popular cuisine of Hungary is Goulash, which is a very thick soup. Sour cream is often used to make this soup. The other mouthwatering cuisines are: fish soup, chicken paprika, home-made pörkölt (stew), grilled pike-perch fresh-water fish, trout with almond, pastas, and goose liver fried or grilled. Desserts also play a very important role in the Hungarian cuisine. The most delicious ones are strudels, Gundel pancakes, somlói dumplings, and gesztenyepüré. Don’t forget to sip a world famous Hungarian wine in Budapest.

Budapest has warm summers and bitterly cold winters, with plenty of rain all year round. Winters are fairly short, the very cold weather arriving in mid-December, usually cloudy and damp with odd bright sunny days and frequent, but light, snow. In summer, from April to September, Budapest has a high proportion of sunny, warm days with relatively high humidity, the sun shining for about 10 hours a day.

The currency in Hungary as a whole is the Forint, although Euros, Sterling, and US dollar traveler’s cheques and cash are easy to exchange throughout the city. You can also use credit cards in most hotels and restaurants.