A few dacades ago people had an extraordinary idea, and conjured up a lake right in the middle of the steppe, the Great Hungarian Plain. This extraordinary area of 127 square kms, created by damming the River Tisza, was given the name Lake Tisza.
We rightly called it extraordinary because it is not even strictly speakin a lake, because of the river current that flows through it. At some spots, where we see the sailboats and windsurfers skimming over the choppy waters, or the colourful cavalcade of guesthouses and restaurants, or when we hear the merry hubbub of bathers, we could imagine ourselves at a smaller brother of the Balaton.

A few kilometres farther we are enchanted by the miraculous beauty of undisturbed nature. Here we can see Europe’s largest field of blossoming water lilies and fringed water lilies, the uninterrupted green carped of water chestnut ("Red Listed" in Europe as specially protected plants), the willows bowing on the banks, the tents of campers hiding underneath the foliage and the birds taking wing in alarm from the reeds.

It may seem a contradiction to call a lake an island, but it is not. In these days we have to make an effort to find the rare places where nature is still intact. This is what makes Lake Tisza unique. Thanks to its fortunate hydrological nature it can survive unharmed any environmental damage, and the same favourable circumstances make it possible for lovers of tumultuous water life, bathers, sunbathing vacationers, anglers longing for silence and watchers of bird life and fauna, regardless of whether they are scientist, naturalists or simply curious, to coexist without being a nuisance to each other.