Last weekend of May is here and for many years we celebrate International Children’s Day with varied outdoor programs in Budapest.

Children’s Day in the City Park

City park has been a venue for free children’s day programs for decades. There’ll be concerts in the Petőfi Stadium, folk dance, Japanese martial arts show, sculpture-making from Szamos Marzipan, clown and puppet performances. Kids can try their hands on various crafting activities, too.

Vajdahunyd Castle will turn into a Renaissance court with knights in period costumes, tournaments, gastronomy shows for which live Renaissamce music provide idylic background. Jumping castles and playgrounds throughout the park provide additional entertainment for the little ones.

Budapest Zoo

The youngest tenants of the zoo will enchant kids and adults alike: Bóbita the lion cub who is looked after by the zoo staff can be seen on Saturday, Sunday and on Whitsun Monday at 11 am-13 pm and at 15pm-17 pm. Layla the 220 kg rhino calf will be on its runway between 12-12.30. The little prairie dogs and the emu chicks will no doubt be also very pouplar. Playgrounds, concerts, and face painting make Budapest Zoo a terrific weekend program this weekend.

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A wide variety of programs ranging from pop concert to art exhibition offer enetertainment this month in Budapest.

• Pálinka Festival, 10th-13rd, May, Városház utca 9-11., (Town Hall Square), V. district,

You can taste, buy and learn about the secrtes of making authentic Hungarian fruit brandies.

Entrance ticket 1000 HUF for which you can drink two shots of brandies worth of 500 HUF

• George Michael Concert, 23rd May, 19.00, Puskás Ferenc Stadium, M2 (red) metro, Stadionok station

• Festival of Museums 19th-20th May, Hungarian National Museum, Múzeum körút 14-16, M3 (blue) metro, Kálvin tér stop,

Nearly 100 museums from all over the country introduce their work, colourful programs for every memebr of the family: craft market, movies, entertainment for children

• For rainy days schedule visiting the “And the Incas Arrived” Exhibition in the Musuem of Fine Arts, 18th May-9th Sept 2007, art and culture of Peru before the Spainish conquest featuring nearly 200 art works

• another rainy day program could be the Hotels Along the Danube Bank Anno photo exhibition, 27th April-10th June Museum Of Commerce and Catering, Szt. István tér 15.

The photos show the magnificent hotels that once stood on the Danube Promenade in the golden ages of Budapest (second half of 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century).

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