Museum Night, Therma Spa, Night Photography, Oh My!

Last night was Museum Night in Budapest. This means that at night you can buy a single ticket to one museum and use that same ticket to visit all the museums of Budapest as well as you the public bus system with that ticket. We ended up checking it out briefly before heading out to a club. The main museum street were packed and tons of people lined up to see the various exhibits. We all ended up staying up really late, or should I say early so today we are taking it easy by visiting the photography museum exhibit and then going to the spa. Mark decided to stay in so it was me Nang, Gab, Marie, and Melissa.



The Szepmuveszeti Muzeum of Budapest is currently displaying a photography exhibit called Body&Soul. Gab, Marie, and Melissa leave first for the exhibit while I wait for Nang to meet up. We end up running into them at the Body & Soul exhibit. There were numerous photographs that were inspiring. The first section was all photographer's self-portraits, which really made me want to get a remote shutter for my camera. I wish I could have taken some pictures of the ones I liked as I have already forgotten most of them, but it was an extra charge to be able to use your camera in there.

I do remember one of them since Melissa actually wrote down the information for it. Violon d’Ingreswork by Man Ray, pictured below.


Budapest sits right on top of a fault line and due to this geographic fact, there are numerous geothermal spas throughout Budapest. Today we decide to visit the main one that we saw during the bike tour. Melissa stayed to check out the museum more. Gab and Marie went there first while Nang and I went on a hunt for some lunch. We finally make it to the spa and meet up with Marie. It seems that Gab forgot her swimwear and had to back and get it.





The spa charges in 3 or 4 hours intervals. You pay for the entire amount and depending on when you leave you may get a little bit of your money back. The spa is setup into three different pools. The one on the left is medium in temperature, I would name it luke warm. The on in the middle is cool and is ambient temperatures. The pool on the right is hottub hot. There is even a sign that suggests you do not stay there for an extended amount of time. There is also a circular hottub looking structure that people wade around in and if enough people are there it creates a current around that looks pretty fun.



That night Nang and I head out and take some sunset pictures of the Budapest. We arrived a little bit late and were unable to get an actual sunset. Nonetheless it was productive day. We walked around from bridge to bridge and up several different hills to get these shots. At the end of the night we were exhausted.