Walking tours

Our walking tours focus on the most beautiful nature views which can also be reached on bicycle or by local train and busses. If you walk with us we will make you acquainted also with locals or those who recently moved here as they fell in love with the simplicity of the farm life and landscape.

Csatorna séta
From Jászszentlászló to Széntkút along some old water paths and small lakes along woods and the touristic red line surprisingly rich bird life can be discoverred. On this path the Szentkút Cloister and some friendly farms can be visited.

Izzik a galagonya
The protected territories of Bodoglár and Harkakötöny lake are connected with this walk. Here you can see the oldest tree and the widest horizon in the neighbourhood. On the way back with the help of a horse carriege the Ethnographic Museum of Kiskunmajsa can be reached through an additional curve along the old farm centre of „Tajói tanyák”.

Földanya
From Móricgát Nagy Farm we make a roundtrip in a bigger or smaller circle experiencing earth in different forms, as mud on a fishing lake, as clay at ceramic artists and in the form of sand on romantic dunes.

Erdőkerülő
Starting from the Sipka Tanya we first see the old Kígyós farm centre and then walk through the rich woods to Gárgyán where we can refresh and also see a leather specialist and experience the wide variety of goods this material can be used for. Excellent game meal is offerred as a finishing touch of the forest walk.

Ötfai lovas mustra
Just by the thermal bath starting from the Marika Panzió along two parallel sand roads it is possible to make an easy but interesting roundtrip as here many horse farms are to be found. The hard work with maintanance and training are all accompanied with great expertise. Trainers, breeders, traders,  riders, and service professions all close to each other, ideal for those guests who arrive here on horseback or with carriege. Specialized accomodation at: Marika Panzió and at the Mustang Ranch. The walks are close to the holiday village where there are numerous restaurants available, soon a bicylce road is ready where also the best local wine cellars - Dósai and Siposkert can be reached.

Event
2009 September 19-20. linking to the Day of Cultural Heritage we organize our first annual Farm Circle Walking Weekend with the aim of visitig as many nice places and lovely farms and farm people from our partners having fun together while walking bycicling or travelling by local public transport. Meeting point: Kiskunmajsa old train station at 8.00 a.m.

Touring with horses

The organizer of the horse programs is a young and dynamic association with the objective of also involving the local youth into the heritage that fits best the given distances and also the heritage of farm lifestyle. The riders represent different layers of the horse expertise: András Bóta who already has 7300 kms behind himself, works in one of the stables and dedicates his free time to the XVIth century tradition, is a passionate mustache man and lives on a farm himself. His partners are brother and sister Szilard and Dóra Zerinváry who started riding as babies and have the complete sand road map of the neighbourhood in their palm and are awarded riders. Dóra is a teacher she also leads two groups of traditional archery. The brother, Szilárd is a natural horse trainer, show rider and was winning his own horse as the main price on a National Castle Games in 2003, on top of this he was also appointed already as young folk tradition master. There is a painter in the team, Olga Pócsik, adds by registering the wonders of nature in her pictures and creative ideas.
The vision of the team is - we do not rule our  horses we treat them as partners.

Tours

These programs are ideal for those riders who are experienced end enjoy long distances and like huge open landscapes.

Szentkút
From Kiskunmajsa to Szentkút Cloister with lunch. Afternoon walk along a lake (Péteri-tó), farm visit, local pub visit in Csengele for refreshment on the way back to Kiskunmajsa.

Bugacpuszta
Following the spirit of a legendary horseman, Rózsa Sándor, a long gallop to Bugacpuszta, lunch at a friend or in Karikás Csárda, visiting a farm with wild pigs on return.

Kis Kunkori
Around Majsa with a different eye. First visiting Szépe Ferenc, a breeder of „akhal teke” traditional horses. Afterwards a visit to the Museum of 1956. Atfer lunch an easy ride along the sand dunes by Bodoglár.

Nagy Kunkori
This one is the most adventurous tour offerring the most insights of the local lifestyle. On the first day we visit farms in Kiskunmajsa, Jászszentlászló and Csengele. After a lunch at Annabel we ride through Kömpöc and reach our overnight stay in Csólyospálos at a craftsmenship farm. The next day we visit Kígyós and Gárgyán, visit local pubs and have a picnic lunch by the Harkakötöny lake. In the afternoon we ride through Bodoglár sand dunes back home.

Ópusztaszer
This is the longest tour, both ways with an intensive ride almost taking our whole day. On the way there we cross Csengele and reach the Historical Monument of Ópusztaszer, where we sleep at akhal teke horse breeders in tents, watching or participating in traditional archery. The next day we will come back via Kistelek and Kömpöc.

Event
June 7 Day of introduction of skills with
games and shows for all ages, starting in the morning
and lasting late.

Local products

Our Farm Circle Greenway Project focusses on heritage protection, we not only develop walking and riding routes but also challenge activity with our events. In 2008 we founded a private photo collecting movement where we took the central role of exhbition hosting. Since 2008 March we are renting an old train station built in 1928, we hope to renovate it and to exhibit old social features of the old line which served commercial purposes for the local products reaching the big city of Kecskemét from our rural farm places historically.

Project

With our partners we enterred a project of NESsT in 2009 to create the business plan of a social enterprise to successfully produce and sell local products as one brand.

Local products

Earth
Clay and special mud and its bricks can be used for houses but also for pottery. The ancient methods are interesting as they are purely natural and also offer an excellent micro climate from within. Renovating on the natural way also can melt with other old techniques and motives, often Mexican or Indian motives are being used.

Wood
Building material, furniture, toys, music instruments are made to date, from parts from rootes to the crown.

Animals
Sheep are kept the most free and frequently in the farms, their skin, wool and sometimes even the bones are used for clothing or decoration. The deers in the woods are also often leaving some horns behind their footsteps, this is also a unique and ancient noble material to work with. A special natural jewel is made here of horse hair.

Herbs
Almost the whole year long very useful spices and herbs can be collected, the local artists also use
natural ingredients for coloring their fabric.

Natural and processed fruits
The area has installed a special farm food program a few years ago, the results are numerous home preservation methods and techniques surviving with their excellent  and special taste.

Ancient races
Horses, sheep, pigs, cows but also numerous grains are kept and harvested on old fashioned, more natural ways.

Fishing
Hobby fishing is available, waters need more structural support through better water regulation.

Event:
2009 August 29 on the day of
Hungarian Photography we open
an exhibition from local private collections.