| Great Plain on horseback & the World Pairs Driving Championship 2009
Date: 17-23 August 2009
6 days, 5 nights, 4 horsebach riding days (4-5 hour riding per day)
The trail ride heads to the World Pairs Driving Championship 2009 hosted by Kecskemét, we kindly ask you to inform us about your participation will due to accommodation booking.
With its colourful world of horse-breeding farms, village tourism, spas, wines, food specialities and various cultural and ethnographical values, the Kiskunság region - part of the Hungarian Great Plain - provides great opportunities for tourism. Yet, it is the wonderful landscape that frames all the attractions.
Internationally renowned, Bugac is the largest and most diverse area of the Kiskunság National Park.
Although almost completely flat the land changes significantly over short distances.
One minute you may be riding alongside fields of maize and sunflowers then you pass through plantations of peach trees or an acacia forest before emerging on to open grassland where the horses can really show what they are made of.
The most spectacular sight is the so-called “Puszta- Five”, where a horseman drives five galloping chargers, himself standing precariously with one leg on the back of each of the two rear horses.
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Itinerary
Day 1
Arriving to Bugac 'puszta'. Dinner and accommodation at farming houses.
Day 2
After breakfast whole day riding through Bugac 'puszta'.
With a wealth of outstanding natural beauty and environmental value, the Bugac area includes the highly protected Native Juniper Grove (Osborokas), sand dune forests and sand plains, marshes, bogs, boggy meadows, wet grasslands, sodic lakes and sodic plains. The sand-dune forests of junipers and poplars accommodate numerous rare species of plants and animals.
Picnic lunch along the way. Dinner and accommodation at farming houses.
Day 3
After breakfast riding from Bugac 'puszta' to Silverado Western Ranch. Picnic lunch along the way. Dinner and accommodation at Silverado Western Ranch.
Day 4
After breakfast riding to Pongrácz Equestrian Farm. Picnic lunch along the way. Dinner and accommodation at Pongrácz Equestrian Farm.
Day 5
Whole day riding tour to a riding farm located in Lajosmizse, where a traditional lunch will be served: grey cattle stew cooked over an open fire in a stew-pot. Dinner and accommodation at Pongrácz Equestrian Farm. |
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Day 6-7
In the last two days attendance in the World Pairs Driving Championship hosted by Kecskemét.
22 August 2009: Marathon, place: Recreational Centre
23 August 2009: Obstacle driving, place: Stadium
During the horseback riding vacation we will ride in the Bugac 'puszta', trough diverse forests, on the Ozora meadow. During our trail rides we can see the amaizing world of the farms situated in the Great Plain, grey cattle herds, studs and flocks of special Hungarian sheeps called 'racka'.
The ground is grassy and sandy during the whole way; perfectly suitable for horseback riding. Last long canters!
Package price: 800 Euro per person
This initerary is flexible, changes may occur due to weather or other unforessen circumstances.
Questions about this tour
Online reservation
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Pegazus Equestrian Vacations
Address: H-1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 5
Hungary
Contact person: András Maus
Phone: +36 1 3171-644
Mobile: +36-30-540-1658
Fax: +36 1 267-017
E-mail: mausandras@pegazus.hu
www.pegazus.hu |
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Photo: www.puszta.com
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