Built in 1973 as a reservoir part of the Tisza River flood control project, when finished in the 1990s the result was a 127 km² lake. Hungarians began to flock to the site for holidays, since it compared favorably with the more crowded and expensive Lake Balaton, the traditional holiday site. As a result, tourist infrastructure has been developed on the reservoir and the government has designated it an official tourism destination.

See also Lake Tisza website

Now the 24th of October is International Day of Climate Action, organized by 350.org, and this time if you’re in Hungary taking action is even easier and fun. At the Széchenyi Spa in Budapest from 10pm will take place Klímafürdő, a Climate Bath Party!

The Party  will start with the shooting of a movie; yes, you read right, not projecting but shooting a movie. Gábor Herendi, the director of A Kind of America (Valami Amerika) will direct a film which will feature the people invading the spa, and doing actions like forming the number 350, the symbol of the solution to climate change. After that there will be lots of music with concerts, DJs, and even a raffle.

This is a unique chance to partecipate in something unique while having fun at the same time. Soaking in a thermal bath can be nice, but when you add the music and the dancing… well the fun is guaranteed! Moreover the movie will be played in Copenhagen at the UN climate experience, in domestic climate events like meetings of Climate-Friendly Municipalities, Climate Call movie projections, Car-free days etc., and of course people will have the chance to see it on Youtube.

The Budapest event is part of something huge; more than 4000 events will take place on October 24th in over 170 countries: from the slopes of Mt. Everest to the underwater reefs of the Maldive Islands, to the giant screens of Times Square; all in the name of 350. Why 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for parts per million carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. 350 is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. It is well explained in this video. So make sure to participate to what it looks like a great night out for a very right purpose.

When: 24 October, 2009, 22.00 till 4.00.

Where: Széchenyi Spa, Budapest

Ticket price: 1500 HUF

Official Event Website: klimafurdo.com

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Siklos Castle, spot of the famous Hungarian movie “A Tenkes kapitánya” (1963).

See also more info about Siklos Castle.

The issue for this year is Climate Change, so on Naked Hungary we would like to talk about Carbon Footprint today. A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation etc.

As we know most of Naked Hungary readers are people who tend to travel quite a lot, we thought of adding to this post a Carbon Footprint calculator, which not only makes you aware of your emissions of carbon footprint, but also gives you a choice of offsetting it by making an offer to the organization of your choice.

It’s pretty easy to use; enter the airport you are flying from, the destination airport, then calculate and, the most important part, choose to “Offset Now” and choose the way you prefer to do it. As we once saw written on the Berlin wall: “Many small people who in many small places do many small things can alter the face of the world”