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Turn the pages of the guide. What is a Personal Planner? Other Resources Tour of Budapest: a clever virtual tour of the Hungary's capital city. Hungarian Home Page: an excellent resource on Hungarian history, geography, and culture. Hungarian Tourism Service: useful maps, up-to-date cultural info, and travel tips from the national tourist board. The Hungarian Quarterly: a journal on the arts and society of Hungary. HipCat's Hungary Page: despite his name, Hipcat has created a rambling, eclectic, and useful Hungary page.

The Berkeley Guides: Berkeley Guide to Europe: Hungary By Pamela Whitney Visitors to Eastern Europe may want to start their travels in Hungary. The culture shock is far less pronounced here than in some other Eastern European countries, in part because Hungary is comparatively unscarred by the legacy of Communism. Even during the height of the Cold War, Hungary attempted a kinder, gentler totalitarianism, which encouraged certain types of private enterprise and rejected the collectivization of the land. This "goulash communism," as it came to be called, wasn't freedom, but it sure wasn't Romania. Background Information A brief introduction to Hungary. Map of Hungary Hungary Travel Basics Money, Telephones, Coming and Going, Mail, Emergencies, Language and more. Major Cities: Budapest Regions: Great Plain | Transdanubia | Lake Balaton | Northern Hungary | Danube Bend