Hiking
The Pusztaszer Seven Chieftains Nature Reserve is open to the public. Büdös-szék, the specially protected part of the Pusztaszer Landscape-Protection Area, can only be visited by permission and with attendance. You can observe the untouched puszta landscape with the special flora and fauna of a szik lake here. Permission is given by the Management of the Kiskunság Natural Park, (19, Liszt St., Kecskemét, Tel.: 76/482-611.)

Ópusztaszer Memorial Park of National History
The village museum, the Árpád memorial and the Feszty-cyclorama are the main points of interest in the park. It can be approached by bus, by car or even by bicycle from the county town easily.

At the densely wooded part of the park you can find clearings with outdoor sport facilities, play-fields and fire-places, so everyone can spend some enjoyable and peaceful time here. If someone did not bring sport equipment along he or she can rent rackets, balls, sledge in the wintertime and even equipment for outdoor cooking or barbecue. You can find horse-riding shows and folklore programs regularly, but these can be specially ordered for special times as well. Tasting the best Hungarian wines and cheese-cake baked in an open-air oven makes the time spent in Ópusztaszer even more enjoyable.

The Ópusztaszer Memorial Park of National History was opened with the goal in mind that it could become the center of tourism coming to the Southern-Alföld. It took on the challenge of preserving the national traditions of Hungarians and passing our cultural heritage to the coming generations.

The activity in the Memorial Park has been extended by spare time and recreational programs by now, aiming different age groups at the same time. One of the main concepts in the creation of park was to provide different educational programs for students of elementary schools and high schools, since half of the visitors of the park come from these age groups.

The Memorial Park wants to make the time spent here a really useful and enjoyable experience for students, so besides the permanent and temporary exhibitions we also provide visitors the following programs...

Learning traditional folk games
Playing games has been an important spare time activity of people from the very beginning of civilization, but it was a significant force of creating and keeping together communities, too, so games are part of the tradition of every nation. Our youngest visitors, while playing cheerfully together with other children, can learn old Hungarian games like playing tag/tig, circle games, ball games, sayings and riddles.

Playing sports
The Memorial Park provides an ideal opportunity for visiting students to test their strength, dexterity and courage at our outdoor sport facilities.

Introduction into the world of traditional crafts
Shows introduce visitors to the secrets of traditional crafts like cloth-dying, basket-making, forging, embroidering, making homespun, wood-carving, baking honey-cake, making shoes, making pottery and baking. Children are introduced to the history and tools of the different crafts, they can follow the work phases of the traditional ways of creating goods, processes that they never meet in today's industrialized world. For a short while they can have a glimpse at the life of our forefathers

Workshop of traditional handcrafts
Visitors can try clay-modeling, felt-making, wood-carving, matting, csuhé-weaving and candle-dipping. With the help of an artist children create their own works, learn the way of molding material. The finished pieces can be taken home and might be put on exhibit.

"Szeri classes" - learning more on special topics in a special atmosphere
These classes give students a thorough insight into the special field chosen. The classes are neither real school classes, nor supplements to the traditional ways of education, but rather activities held in a relaxed atmosphere, where children can find answers to their questions and learn the ways to recognize the causes of events and the following consequences on their own.