The clear water
You see the floor six metres down.
Shaambo.ghosh — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Solymári — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Unknown authorUnknown author — Public domain · Szenti Tamás — CC BY-SA 4.0
Passages are low in places and you duck; the trip is short and the boat open, but the severely claustrophobic should skip it.
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You row beneath a town: Tapolca's famous cave is a system of passages flooded with clear thermal water under the streets, found by accident in 1902 while digging a well — today you take a small two-oar boat and push yourself along the walls through three hundred metres of chambers, the water beneath you transparent to a floor six metres down. The trip takes twenty minutes in silence at a steady 20 degrees (relatively warm, because the water is thermal), the chambers dissolved out of limestone between cold water from above and thermal from below. Entry is through a small geology museum, and the ticket includes the neighbouring "hospital cave" where asthma patients are treated by its air. In Tapolca's centre itself a mill pond sits in the square with cafés around it — a half-day stop between Badacsony and Hévíz.
You see the floor six metres down.
In the town square with its cafés.
Kisfaludy utca 3, Tapolca