The Puszta and Lake Tisza
Hortobágy is home to Europe's largest expanse of grassland prairies (the 'Puszta'), as well as salt lakes and marshes with treasures to be seen nowhere else. 'The prairies billow like the sea', as the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, an enthusiastic admirer of the prairies and the river Tisza, put it. The Tisza is the lifeblood of this sandy country as well as the source of an inexhaustible supply of fish, the principal ingredient of the delicious Hungarian fish soup. In this region the sun shines more hours than any other region in the country, and abundantly flowing thermal water helps health-seekers to recuperate.
