City Park
One of the largest parks in Budapest, City Park lies North of Heroes' Square. Bordered by a winding avenue featuring its key sights, the park is full of playgrounds, sports fields, small gardens and green esplanades. The City Park is home of the Municipal Zoological and Botanical Gardens, the Museum of Transportation, the Circus, the Funfair, and Museum of Aviation (located in the concert facility Petőfi Hall) and the Széchenyi Medicinal Baths. The world famous Gundel Restaurant is the first sight of interest on the inner avenue. Built at the turn of the century, this fine restaurant and its garden has gained an international reputation and has become one of the highest standard restaurants of the capital. There is also a beautiful internal lake in the Park known as the City Park Pond, a preferred site for rowers at summertime and an excellent ice-rink at wintertime. This is the largest outdoor skating-rink in Central Europe featuring special night-lights and disco to attract those hunting for Saturday night fever on ice.

Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden
XIV. Állatkerti krt. 6-12. (Trolley 72 , Metro 1: Széchenyi bath, Bus 4)
Daily 9 am - 6 pm

The Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden offers excellent programme for the whole family! The visitors can enjoy monumental buildings and surroundings inhabited with 2000 animals and innumerable plants and flowers.
Programmes: fantastic playground, zoolympia, zoodetective games, ethological display, seal-show, encounters with animals, elephant show, temporary exhibitions.
Novelties: after 10 years the Palmhouse is back to public view, as well as the Seccessionist Elephant-house awarded Europe Nostra Prize, the rocky path, the Climate Park and Noah's Arena.
Cheap and comfortable restaurant, monument terrace snack-bars.

Funfair
XIV. Állatkerti út 14-16. (Trolley 72 , Metro 1: Széchenyi bath , Bus 4)
April - September: 10 am - 8 pm
October - March: only Saturdays-Sundays 10 am - 7 pm

More than a hundred years ago a carousel, games and theatrical shows already awaited the visitors near Varosliget. Today the Fun Fair is an exciting amusement park with over 50 different rides, among which several old-fashioned ones (for example Europe's longest roller-coaster with wooden framework) as well as many, more sophisticated latest technical inventions and modern entertainments. On a 16-acre territory numerous bars, restaurant and kiosks can be found all over the park, providing the perfect atmosphere for a day of excitement and laughs.

Palace of Miracles - Interactive Scientific Playhouse
II. Fény u. 20-22. (Tram 4, 6, 18, 61, Bus 5, 21, 22, 28, 56, Metro 2: Moszkva tér)
TUE-FRI 9 am - 6 pm, SAT-SUN 10 am - 7 pm

This is an interactive scientific exhibition and education centre. Primarily it teaches children, showing them the rules of the natural sciences. It is a fusion of didactic approaches particular to a museum, a school, a playground or amusement park, and a cultural centre.
New features are added to the permanent exhibition annually, called e.g. 'Everyday magic', 'New illusions', 'Do not believe your eyes', 'Tune into us'. Visitors can touch and try out all sorts of things in order to discover and get familiar with natural laws. Understand by experience how they work.
There is a square-wheeled car, a sticky wall, and a virtual moon walk; you may try out the monocycle, the blue-box, and others. These are all easy to use and no knowledge of more complex scientific theories is needed.
There is disabled access to the exhibition.

Laser Theatre
X. Népliget (Metro 3: Népliget)
Daily except MON: 9 am - 4 pm
This programme, which invites visitors on a journey through the visible empire of sounds, has been created with the help of one of the most marvellous inventions of the century, the laser, and other technical and artistic wonders.

Hungarian Railway History Park
XIV. Tatai út 95. (Bus 30)
Daily 10 am - 6 pm, closed MON
Exhibition of railway locomotives, steam locomotives and rail carriage. Daily locomotive and carriage display, velocipede line-inspection car, chance to operate a model railway, regular children's programmes. Also: drive a steam locomotive.

Chair-Lift
Zugliget - János Hill (Bus 158)
Annual opening hours are from 9 am to 5 pm between 16th May and 14th September, and from 10 am to 4 pm between 15th September and 15th May.

The 1040 metre-long route spans the 262-metre height differential between the two end stations. It can handle 500 passengers per hour. The Chairlift, which runs between the saddles of Zugliget (nook grove) and John Hill (János Hegy), was opened in 1970.
In poor weather conditions the Chairlift operates periodically, and in such times the machines are run for five or more passengers only. The Chairlift is started up for groups regardless of the schedule. The arrival of groups does not need to be indicated in advance.

Cogwheel Railway
II. Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor 47. (Tram 56, 18)
Trains run from 5 am - 11 pm

The cog railway overcomes a height difference of 325 metres over the 3.7 kilometres from Városmajor Station to Széchenyi Hill. One interesting feature of the line is that there are very few straight stretches; it mainly runs in curves.
The cog railway was built to the plans of Swiss engineer Ferenc Cathry by Swiss companies. It was opened in 1874 with a section of just 2.8 kilometres. It was the third of its kind to be built in Europe following the still-running Rigi railway and the discontinued Kahlenberg railway in Vienna. Its steam-traction carriages were primarily to take home the occupants of the villas on Swabian Hill (Svábhegy) that were mushrooming in number, as well as to transport a similarly growing number of tourists up the Hill.
The line was extended in 1890 to run to the top of Széchenyi Hill, its current end stop. In 1929, for environmental reasons it was converted to electric traction. The Austrian trainsets still in use today have been running on the line since its reconstruction in 1973.
Standard BKV (Budapest Transport Company) tickets are required on the cog railway trains. Bicycles can also be transported on them.

Children's Railway
Széchenyi Hill and Hűvösvölgy( Bus 56, Tram 56)

The Children's Railway is located in the west of the city of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. Its eleven-kilometre-long, narrow gauge line runs through the woods of the hills of the city on the Buda side.
It is often called "the greatest child toy of the world," but it is not entirely true. Children aged 10 to 14 control the traffic and commercial services provided but strictly according to regulations of any other railway line of the State Railways of Hungary (MÁV Rt).
The engines are driven by adult engineers, and children on duty, are continuously supervised by adult railway employees. Apart from that, children do their jobs, operate the switches and signals, print tickets and keep passengers informed, on their own.
The Children's Railway in Budapest is not a unique institution of its kind. But it has always been by far the largest, most popular and serious one of them all in the world.
The railway operates throughout the year, except for Mondays from September to April. Trains run from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the winter and until 7 o'clock in the summer.

Tropicarium-Oceanarium, Campona
XXII. Nagytétényi út 37-45. (Bus 3, 14, 114)
MON-FRI 10 am - 8 pm, SAT-SUN 10 am - 10 pm

Fish of Hungarian waters, just as well as creatures living in tropical rainforests, in the depths of the world's seas and oceans are on show here. They are housed in environments that very closely resemble their original ones.
The inside section with the monkeys and alligators is filled with typical vines, weeping palms and epiphytes (parasitic plants) of the tropical rainforest. A notable group of the latter are the bromeliads, of which at least six or seven species are shown. Other plants of interest include a coffee shrub, an ornamental pineapple tree and a flamingo flower in bloom.
The terrariums are landscaped using the plant life characteristic of the original habitat of the inhabitants. The enclosure of the monkeys also houses interesting carnivorous pitcher plants which feed on small insects. The desert terrarium has African euphorbia species while the semi-arid Australian desert is symbolised by the bottle-brush plant. The outside lake has indigenous Hungarian plants with some Hungarian fauna. Narrow-leaf bulrush and reed species populate the waterside. Where natural light is not sufficient, plants are illuminated by high-powered lamps, the required humidity is provided using humidifiers and softened water, and artificial fertilisers are used to maintain the green environment when required.
The idea of the Tropicarium was that of Károly Farkasdi, a Hungarian businessman living in Sweden. He and his family established the first of these complexes in 1990 in Kolmarden, followed by the first one of its type in Budapest 2000.