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This is Badacsony and its volcanic friends once again, as seen from the Batsányi Lookout at Balatongyörök (don't even think to try to pronounce it if you're not native Hungarian ). The Badacsony region is scattered with buttes of dead volcanoes that once erupted on a flat land and their basalt lava spread out on the plain some 3 millions of years ago. Later the erosion brought the surrounding terrain away but under the lava cap the compressed and petrified soil remained, this created these "table" mountains. They are not a contiguous mountains but discrete monadnocks (like Badacsony and Csobánc) with ocassional (but amazingly shaped) cones like Tátika. On the Southern slopes the direct sunlight that creates an almost Mediterranean microclimate and this and the volcanic soil are perfect combination for grapes and wines. The wine regions of Hungary were almost completely destroyed by the Phyloxera in the 1800s and that was the key event that cast light to the perfect possibilities here. Previously the region was poor and barely recognized and the wineyards were scarce and mainly on the less steep areas. After the mid-19th century both the grape growing possibilities and the touristic values were discovered and for today Badacsony is on the top in both terms.

And I was on the top, too. Balatongyörök is about 12 km (8 miles) afar from there and there are two wooden lookouts built over its mountains, plus there is a small hill with almost perfect wiew to the lake and the Badacsony. Google Maps told me that there is a road to the Batsányi Lookout, tallest and newest of them, and I made the mistake to believe it. Poor my ol' car! But he did a good job. (Yes, "he"—he's personalized as pirate Captain Redd, partly because the colour and partly because the type name almost the same as the Hungarian word for "pirate".) There was no road, but a service track for 6WD trucks of the foresters...

This image is barely edited, straightening, some minor noise reduction and watermark was the photoshop part after RAW conversion.

Please don't do anything to this image. This is my work, and it is exactly as I wanted it. This image is geologically copyrighted. If you have any strange idea, let me know and perhaps we can agree in mutually acceptable terms. But using, republishing, blogging, sharing, etc. are infringing my rights and make me worse than an actice volcano.

Paid download and prints are available without watermark in beautiful 5899×3934 px size

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Description
This is Badacsony and its volcanic friends once again, as seen from the Batsányi Lookout at Balatongyörök (don't even think to try to pronounce it if you're not native Hungarian ). The Badacsony region is scattered with buttes of dead volcanoes that once erupted on a flat land and their basalt lava spread out on the plain some 3 millions of years ago. Later the erosion brought the surrounding terrain away but under the lava cap the compressed and petrified soil remained, this created these "table" mountains. They are not a contiguous mountains but discrete monadnocks (like Badacsony and Csobánc) with ocassional (but amazingly shaped) cones like Tátika. On the Southern slopes the direct sunlight that creates an almost Mediterranean microclimate and this and the volcanic soil are perfect combination for grapes and wines. The wine regions of Hungary were almost completely destroyed by the Phyloxera in the 1800s and that was the key event that cast light to the perfect possibilities here. Previously the region was poor and barely recognized and the wineyards were scarce and mainly on the less steep areas. After the mid-19th century both the grape growing possibilities and the touristic values were discovered and for today Badacsony is on the top in both terms.

And I was on the top, too. Balatongyörök is about 12 km (8 miles) afar from there and there are two wooden lookouts built over its mountains, plus there is a small hill with almost perfect wiew to the lake and the Badacsony. Google Maps told me that there is a road to the Batsányi Lookout, tallest and newest of them, and I made the mistake to believe it. Poor my ol' car! But he did a good job. (Yes, "he"—he's personalized as pirate Captain Redd, partly because the colour and partly because the type name almost the same as the Hungarian word for "pirate".) There was no road, but a service track for 6WD trucks of the foresters...

This image is barely edited, straightening, some minor noise reduction and watermark was the photoshop part after RAW conversion.

Please don't do anything to this image. This is my work, and it is exactly as I wanted it. This image is geologically copyrighted. If you have any strange idea, let me know and perhaps we can agree in mutually acceptable terms. But using, republishing, blogging, sharing, etc. are infringing my rights and make me worse than an actice volcano.

Paid download and prints are available without watermark in beautiful 5899×3934 px size

If you like this image, you may want to check out by — or learn more about the ways of to mutually help each other to gain visitors