Chairlift over "the hungarian mountains"

The first chairlift was created in the US in 1936 in Sun Valley, Idaho for the skiresort over there  and installed in Proctor and Dollar mountains, owned later on by the Union Pacific Railroad. The chairlift was developed by James Curran, who engineered banana conveyor systems to load cargo ships in the tropics. His basic design is still used for chairlifts today.

The original Proctor Mountain Ski Lift is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In Budapest the construction started in year 1969 and the cabels were imported from Austria. The first ride was in 1970, 20 of August for Hungary's national day, by the actual  Minister of Transport and his wife.
This chairlift has never been used as a skilift, as Hungary does not have such high mountains that you could ski at all.:)

The whole route is 1040 meter long and each hour could have 500 passangers. The level difference up and down is 262 meters beetwen Zugliget and János hegy.
At clear weather, as right now:) you can enjoy the whole panorama.

From my hostel the route to this unique excursion is quiet simple, as you just take the train infront of us till Nyugati pu (18min.) then the bus nr. 291

and you are already in the other part of the city having an another view and still wonderful clean air, just like at my site in comparison to the citycenter.
In the upper end you can find the staton of the children railway, which is a great entertainment not only for children. But about this route you can read in my next blog.

One ride cost 800,- forint, do not forget your student card, as you get discount with it!

Open from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. all year around.