Ozora Festival Attracts Alternative Crowd to Hungarian Countryside
- 31 Jul 2023 9:08 AM
Starting on Monday, 31 July, the week-long Ozora Festival will be offering seven days of alternative entertainment to a loyal gathering of like-minded souls at Dádpuszta, near the village of Ozora south of Lake Balaton.
The location is no coincidence. It was here in the summer of 1999 that many watched and celebrated the solar eclipse. Solipse was then revived as the Ozora Festival in 2004, and soon became one of the leading psychedelic trance events in the world, attracting tens of thousands to an otherwise little-visited part of Hungary.
Still defiantly non-mainstream, Ozora transforms an attractive valley into an interactive creative zone for underground culture, combining hypnotic trance beats, art workshops, circus performances, Polynesian dance and orchard maintenance, to name just the tip of the iceberg.
There are no day or weekend tickets, only admission for the whole event (€290, cash only) which includes free camping and car parking. See here for details – there are only a limited number available at the gate. For travel information, see here.
Words by Peterjon Cresswell for Xpatloop.com
Peterjon has been researching the byways of Budapest for 30 years, extending his expertise across Europe to produce guidebooks for Time Out and his own website liberoguide.com
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