Budapest was my last stop on a 9 days trip. With lots of lovely moments from Krakow and Bratislava, I was very much excited to visit two cities, Buda and Pest 🙂 Pest is pronounced as Peszt in Hungarian and means flat surface. Buda and pest sides are separated by Danube river. Because of such great natural scene settings, I had decided to go for a photo tour while in Budapest. And I am so much proud of me for the same. Evening spent capturing beauty of Budapest while learning a lot from Miklos Mayer was just perfect cherry on the cake. Hence, I decided to tell the story of last city, Budapest, via these pictures.
We started our tour at Fishermens’ Bastion. Fishermens’ Bastion or Halászbástya (I bet you cant pronounce that in a go), is a classic example of neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque. As it is located on Castle hill in Buda side, you have an amazing view of Parliament and gorgeous houses.
I was busy capturing the beauty of parliament in front of me. Miklós said Turn back and it was a perfect selfie opportunity.
Sometimes it is important to turn back and look for opportunities running towards you.
Next to Fishermens’ Bastion is Matthias Church. As Sun was getting ready to go home, it had done awesome job of lighting Matthias Church in a perfect way.
We then walked over to Buda Castle to prepare for our next attraction, flicking the switch of lights over Chain bridge and the parliament. Thanks to Thomas Edison and Hungarian Electric company 🙂
One advantage of having a local with you, they know great tips about the city, such as the lights on the pillar show green color in the beginning, when they are warming up. It gives such a unique feel to Chain Bridge.
And then we kept clicking and talking.
Now it was the time concentrate on the Chain Bridge itself. I dont know if they purposefully built a perfect spot to take photos of Clark Ádám tér or it was just a coincidence. For me, I thanked the architect.
Now it was a time to move on to another great spot, Citadella. Unfortunately, Uber is banned in Hungary. So we had to wait for a taxi. Miklós used the time to give me more tips about night time photography.
Citadella seems to be very famous spot for evening visit. As we were getting out of the taxi, we saw 3 tourist coaches pulling over. We increased our speed to beat the crowd and managed to grab a spot with only few people around.
After checking out below images, you will also realise why Citadella is so famous for evening visit.
I would probably not dare to go to Citadella and then walk down the Gellert hill by myself. But I did a smart thing by booking the photo tour with Miklós . I just wanted to keep taking pictures of boat trails.
We found another perfect spot to take shots of Liberty Bridge.
We then ended our tour with mind blowing shot of “Golden” Parliament.
Thanks a lot Miklós for such amazing evening in Budapest and lot of great tips about night photography. I am definitely going to visit Budapest to take more and more photos.
This is an awesome photoblog.. enjoyed the reading as much as admiring the beautiful pictures.. keep writing!
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Thanks a lot Swarnali 🙂
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Awesome gau…it seemed like walking through budapest :p
just loved this way of sharing photos…keep posting more n more blogs like this…I hope to post at least one by myself 🙂
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Thank you Supu 🙂 Start travelling and you will definitely post one and many. Once you start, just go on 🙂
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Good write-up and awesome pics gauri!! Keep travelling!! Looking forward for more!!
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Thanks Anna 🙂
Agar time mile toh do check out first post, The Unplanned Journey, as well.
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Gau, keep travelling,writing & keep on enjoying the journey of Life. Ur Perfect Example of Living Life on ur own terms. Proud of U.
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Beautiful article and photos!!! So proud of you!! xxx
Looking forward to your next one!! 🙂
Xiaonan
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Thank you Dear:)
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Can’t believe your pictures they are really amazing!!! Photo tour was definitely worth it
Love getting to read your thoughts on a place too! Can’t wait to see more
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You’ve already got a terrific eye. I can’t wait til you post photos of Morocco. But you obviously learned a lot from Miklos in a short time. These photos are fabulous!!!
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Thank you Gauri, for telling the story of the night photography tour in such depth!
This is by far the best “testimonial” I could have gotten. It was my pleasure to take you on this tour.
I hope we’ll have the opportunity to shoot some night pics again.
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Hi Gauri, very well written and awesome photos. Keep travelling and exploring new destinations. Hope to see more blog with new locations. 🙂
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Loved to see my fav city through your camera’s lens, Gauri! And you also gave me an excellent xmas present idea with the photo tour 😉
Can hardly wait to see and read the rest of the posts! Xxx
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