Winter on the Lake Balaton

Although you can not ski in Hungary (only a little bit), the country still has its own winter attraction.

Balaton mostly known as a summer destination, as the largest lake in europe.
But winter cold does not mean that there are no things to do around...
As the lake freeze, and the ice on the top is rising, the local councils are going to select the ice-skating courses on the ice of the lake.

In Keszthely, there are an ice-skating course near the port, which is open from 12-8pm on weekdays, and from 9am till 9pm on weekends. The attraction is FREE of charge.

In Balatonfured, the local eszerhazy beach hosts the skating course, which open for public from 2pm-6pm on weekdays and 9am-7pm on weekends.
There will be several more about the lake as the ice grows

You also can hockey on the ice,or simply just walk around, or play the old hungarian 'wooden dog', which is a chair with two long wood on its bottom to ski on the ice, you can push yourself like when you are skiing...
or ice sailing...which is a sail boat with skiing legs (like a catamaran), and if the wind blows well enough, you can sail around the lake.

Not only Lake Balaton offers such winter fun, but Lake Velence as well (which is only 25-30kms from Budapest).