Matrafuered - Kékestető (Marijina pot)

Access to starting point:
From Budapest we drive east on the motorway towards the town of Nyiregyhaza. After approximately 90 kilometers we leave the motorway at the Gyoengyoes/Matrafured exit. We continue to the town of Gyoengyoes, then at the marked intersection we continue north towards the village of Matrafuered. When we arrive in the mentioned village we turn left into the first street (Beke ut), where we park.

Path description:
From the starting point we first walk to the main intersection in Matrafuered, from there we continue along the road leading to the Kekes summit. We walk about 200 meters along the main road, then continue left onto Akademia ut street, where the first markings appear (for the first hour and a half the markings accompanying us are in the form of a white rectangle with a red line below which is the letter m). A little further ahead Akademia ut street splits into two parts, we continue along the slightly left road and then left up the stairs into the forest. Here a path with yellow markings soon branches off to the left, leading to the artificial lake Sasto (Eagle Lake), which is located slightly above the village of Matrafuered. We continue along the fence and after a few minutes arrive at the shrine with the statue of St. Mary. Here another path branches off to the left to Sasto lake, we continue ahead, first along the small stream, then along the larger one. The path ahead rises moderately and after some time rises slightly above the stream. Here a third path branches off to the aforementioned lake, we continue straight and gradually enter the shrub zone. On this section we cross a wider forest road, then the path returns to the forest and temporarily flattens. Further on the path becomes steeper again and leads us to a wooden footbridge, behind which we reach the most interesting part of the path - a narrow gorge, which is unfortunately quite short. Above the gorge we ascend to the next junction, where Marijina pot ends, we continue right along the path which is then marked with a red cross. The path ahead runs for some time along a wide cart track and leads us through slightly sparser forest. We walk along the road to the nearby torrent bed, from there we continue right and then ascend along the stream. For a short time we still ascend gently along the stream, then the path ascends more steeply up the slope. When higher the path turns right it becomes even steeper, but a few minutes higher it flattens and leads us to the point where we join the path marked with blue cross and a little further also blue triangle.
Further we cross the asphalt road leading to the summit 3 times (on the path section between crossings the path leads us past a water catchment and the Javoros spring). When we arrive higher at the parking lot, we see a ski slope and several buildings ahead. We continue along the asphalt road along which we walk almost to the summit. One minute below the summit we leave the asphalt and walk along the forest path to the highest peak in Hungary (Kekes / Kékestető).
At the summit there is a sculpture, around the summit a nearby ski resort. Since the summit is mostly forested we get a nice view to the southwest, where we see Budapest and the Galya peak, which is the second highest peak in Hungary. To the northwest there is a view of Karancs and towards Slovakia.