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playhouse for children of all ages, with 'smart' toys and puzzles, most with a scientific
bent, and lots of interactive stuff, such as a 'wind tunnel', 'velvet harp' and 'fakir bed'.
Tropicarium
Campona Shopping Mall, XXII Nagytétényi út 37-45; adult/child/senior & student 2300/1600/1900Ft;
10am-8pm; 33 from XI Móricz Zsigmond körtér in south Buda)
is apparently the largest in central
Europe. The place prides itself on its local specimens - 'fish species of the Hungarian
fauna' - though there's an 11m-long shark aquarium containing all manner of the
beasties. Feeding time is between 3pm and 4pm on Thursday.
SPORTS & ACTIVITIES
BATHHOUSE
RUDAS BATHS
with cabin weekdays/weekends 3000/3300Ft, morning/night ticket 2300/3700Ft; men 6am-8pm
Mon & Wed-Fri, women 6am-8pm Tue, mixed 10pm-4am Fri, 6am-8pm & 10pm-4am Sat & Sun;
7, 86,
18, 19)
Built in 1566, these renovated baths are the most Turkish of all in Budapest, with an octa-
gonal pool, domed cupola with coloured glass and massive columns. It's a real zoo on
mixed weekend nights, when bathing costumes are compulsory. You can enter the lovely
swimming pool
(with locker weekday/weekend 2000/23000Ft, with thermal bath 3900/4200Ft ;
6am-8pm daily, 10pm-4am Fri & Sat)
separately if you're more interested in swimming than
soaking.
