Finished a delicious dinner of Hungarian specialties.
Drank two bottles of Hungarian wine.
Crossed the Danube River.
Sat in a 450 year old Turkish bathhouse for three blissful hours.
Wait...what? Yep, on Friday and Saturday nights from 10pm-4am, the oldest baths in Budapest are open for co-ed night bathing (with suits of course.) The Rudas baths are everything you'd imagine Turkish baths to be. Old stone walls, mosaic tiles, and lots of hot water. They are also spotlessly clean with all the modern comforts, like lockers and showers and a snack bar.
The main area has four small pools of differing temperatures and one big warm pool in the middle, underneath a domed stone roof. The dome has stained glass holes, which must be amazing on a sunny day with colored light streaming into the ancient room. There are also saunas, steam rooms, and massage rooms where fat Hungarian men will rub you down.
We stuck to the bath circuit for almost three hours and took a cab home at 2:30 in the morning feeling like noodles. It was great, though the pics aren't. Sorry. Here are some better ones.
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