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Bugac is the most
popular and the biggest part of the Kiskunság National Park, lying 38 kilometres from Kecskemét.
It is a popular destination for nature-friends and for tourists who are searching for complex
services and programmes in a wonderful surrounding.
Already
in the middle of 1930's ministers, diplomats and rulers paid here their respects. Bugac is not only a natural
relict, but also much more; the medium of one piece of our cultural history, having wild shepherding and
agriculture of detached farms. Bugacpuszta is easy to find, why boards are showing the right way.
Opposite to the Karikás Csárda on the end of the asphalt way you can see the Buzsik field house, which is
under protection of historic buildings. The house was built in the second third of XIX. Century is a
beautiful folk architectural masterwork of Little Cummanian peasant achievement of middle-class status.
At the entrance a bilingual board is giving direction to natural values of the puszta. You have to leave
your car in the large parking place. We recommend you to have a walk in the protected paths. We can
ensure a professional guide in the National Park on demand. Some places are only available with guiding.
Bugacpuszta is a perfect place for school excursions for making pleasant trips in the unique nature.
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After lunch you can walk to the stable, where you can take a look on the native animals.
On the way you can admire the puszta in Bugac, the freely grazing stud, the herd of grey cattle
and the structures of shepherds built of reed and wood (place sheltered from the wind, shady-place,
knotty reed-cottage), which served as temporary accommodations for people and animals in the long past.
Further you can see the stables where you can get acquainted with the most ancient species of animals: for
example racka-sheep, Hungarian mangalica as well as swallow paunch mangalica pig, grey donkey.
Opposite
to the stables you can find the conical building of Pastoral Museum. The exhibition of museum built in the
style of horse-driven mills shows the shepherd's life on the prairies of Kecskemét and fauna and flora in
the sand areas. After visiting the museum we invite our guests to a little excursion into the Ancient Juniper
wood. The first part of it leads through a planted pine-forest to a lookout tower, from which an excellent
panorama opens on the Ancient Juniper wood.
The 800-hectare area is a Biosphere Reserve. In morphological form this is the most various one among the
areas of the park, here is the biggest proportion of sand hills. The particular saw-legged grass hooper is
living here, which is very interesting, because we can meet it only in this area on the lowlands. Such
endangered species are still living here like sans viper. The most often occurring animal is however the
rabbit, feasting the plants of environs. And if plants in sand hills came already to question we definitely
have to mention the sand iris, the sand colchicum and the maiden pink.
To walk around these interesting paths takes form one hour to more days. We can ensure accommodations in
our romantic farmhouses.
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