The Koloska valley
An easy walk between sunken rocks.
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Everything on the northern shore that is not lake: the national park gathers fifty-six thousand hectares of extinct volcanoes, limestone plateaus, marshes and caves from Tihany to Kis-Balaton — which is why the northern shore feels nothing like the flat southern one. Its open sites are many: the "geyser meadows" on Tihany where cones of ancient thermal springs stand in the fields, the sunken Koloska valley with its easy walk between rocks, the Lóczy cave, the basalt-organ trail at Szent György hill, and Tihany's inner Kornyi lake, greenish with watchtowers over it. Access to the nature is free, and the visitor centres (Tihany, Salföld, Kis-Balaton) take small tickets explaining the volcanoes and birds. Its best seasons are spring for flowers and autumn for the bird migration over Kis-Balaton.
An easy walk between sunken rocks.
Tihany's inner lake with watchtowers.
Csopak, Hungary
The Koloska valley near Balatonfüred for families (an easy hour), or Tihany's geyser meadows with the abbey in half a day.