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Exploring the Ruin Bars of Budapest

Our own private pub crawl in the historic center of town

Anne Bonfert
Globetrotters
Published in
9 min readNov 7, 2022

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Buda-lovin-pest. | Credit: Anne Bonfert

Scribbled walls. Old guitars hanging from the roofs. Green plants next to neon lights and wooden chairs. The vintage style of Budapest’s original ruin bars is one to indulge in.

It’s quite interesting how we approach our travels. While I’m the reader, my husband watches YouTube videos with no end. He often finds interesting aspects of an activity or place which I then read up on and include in our adventures on the road.

The same happened to Budapest or let’s rather say its nightlife. David mentioned he wants to check out some ruin bars and I then made a list of the places I found online.

It was our first evening in the city and we were in for a night. We didn’t want to book an organized tour and made our own pub crawl instead. With my father in tow, we ventured off to the party scene in “pest”, the historic center of town.

On a Friday night.

About the ruin bars of Budapest

The 7th District of Budapest used to be the site of the Jewish ghetto where about 10,000s Jews got deported from in the second world war. All that was left were abandoned…

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Anne Bonfert
Globetrotters

I am a traveler. Photographer. Writer. Teacher. Skydiving instructor. Adventure enthusiast. Nature lover. And fell in love with the African continent.