That hiker can obtain this badge, who can prove with his/her personal completion booklet the fulfillment of the whole route of the National Blue Trail. This distance is about 1160 kilometres according to the latest survey.

This badge is free of charge, if you buy the personal completion booklet, its consumer price (1990 HUF) contains the price of the badge, what you will obtain after the successful fulfillment of the Blue Trail! Hikers have to send the personal completion booklet to the postal address of the Hungarian Hikers’ Association (Magyar Természetjáró Szövetség, 1244 Budapest, Pf.: 846.), or bring it personally to the association: 1075 Budapest, Károly körút 11. 7th floor. The costumer reception is open in the office every working day: Monday between 9 am and 5 pm, Tuesday-Thursday 9 am and 4 pm, Friday 9 am and 3 pm.

The evaluation of the booklet takes about two-three weeks. If you bring personally the booklet to the office, and cannot wait in Budapest until the end of the administration, the Hungarian Hikers’ Association send the badge together with diploma and the personal completion booklet to your postal address. In this case you have to pay the postal costs. Of course every hiker get the personal completion booklet back after the evaluation! They knows at the association, that the worn, often wrinkled booklet with the 150 stamps is just as valuable for the hiker, as the badge of the Blue Trail!

The badge shows a winding path leading towards mountains with a marked column beside it. The text on the badge: “ORSZÁGOS KÉK-TÚRA M.T.SZ.”. Its size is approximately 47 mm from the upper-right corner until the bottom-left corner. Unfortunately this photo cannot reflect the brilliant colours of the enamel paint! This badge is more than a dozen years old, but its colours have not faded yet!

You can see, that the number of the completion is engraved on the backside of the badge. The Hungarian Hikers’ Association keeps a record of the people finishing the National Blue Trail, and my number of registration is 4097. My son Gábor has the badge number 4096. Many people completed the Trail twice or more times, in that case they get further badges with other numbers. For example I have three badges: the first is this one, the number of the second one is 4751, and the third has the 5969 number.

Everybody, who completed the National Blue Trail, can buy a buttonhole badge in the centre office of the Hungarian Hikers’ Association, but only once, independently of the number of completions. Its shape is very similar to its “bigger brother”, but it is much smaller. Its price was 400 HUF in 2006. Its size is about 23 mm between the upper-right corner until the bottom-left corner.

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A few hikers' associations of different counties founded movements along the National Blue Trail. There are four sections, which have own rewards. You can obtain the badge of the appropriate section, if the collect every stamps into your personal completion booklet from the start until the end of the section. The badges are the following in western-eastern direction:

This movement is announced by the Hikers' Committee of Vas County for the hikers of the National Blue Trail. Route: from the peak of Írott-kő Mountain until Ötvös village on the route of the National Blue Trail.
Verfication:
The verification happens with the photocopy of the appropriate pages of the personal completion booklet. The hiker have to send these sheets to the postal address of the committe (Vas Megyei Természetbarát Bizottság, 9700 Szombathely, Léka utca 23.), or bring them personally to the next address: Szombathely, Berzsenyi tér 2/b, 3rd floor. (Write the address in this form onto the envelope, please!)
Costumer reception: every Monday between 4 pm and 5:30 pm. The price of the badge is 150 HUF.
The route of the Blue Trail is visible on the badge with the schematic outline of Vas County. Its diameter is appr. 40 mm.

E-mail address: evabt@t-online.hu, Mrs. Biácsi Tamásné

Webpage: http://borostyankotse.5mp.eu

This movement is announced by the Hikers' Association of Veszprém County for the hikers of the National Blue Trail. Route: from Sümeg town until Bodajk village on the route of the Blue Trail across the whole Balaton-felvidék Region and Bakony Mountains.
Verification:
The verficaton happens by the sending of the photocopies of the appropriate sheets of the personal completion booklet to the following assress: Veszprém Megyei Természetbarát Szövetség, 8200 Veszprém, Wartha Vince utca 3. The price of the badge is 400 HUF + postal costs. (Write the address in this form onto the envelope, please!)
Account number: 11748007-20138949
Similar to the “big” National Blue Trail badge its shape is an irregular square with the schematic map of Balaton Lake with mountains and a marked column beside it. The size of the badge is about 28 mm between the upper-left corner and the bottom right corner.

E-mail address: vmtsz@citromail.hu,

Webpage: vmtsz.hupont.hu

This movement was announced by the Hikers' Association of Csongrád County for the hikers of the National Blue Trail. Its route: from the railway station of Dorog until railway station of Nógrád village on the route of the Blue Trail across the Pilis Mountains, Buda Hill and Börzsöny Mountains.
The validation can happen only with the original personal completion booklet. You have to bring personally the booklet to the address of the Hiker's Association of Csongrád County: Szeged, Tábor utca 7/B. Costumer reception: Wednesday between 6 pm and 7 pm, or you can post your booklet to the next address: 6701 Szeged, pf.: 548. (Write the address in this form onto the envelope, please!) The price of the badge is 2500 HUF + postal costs.
The accont number, where you can send the costs: Budapest Bank, 10102842-44233400-01004009

E-mail address: toboz@csmtsz.hu

Webpage: www.csmtsz.hu

This hiker movement is announced by the Hikers' Association of Heves County for the hikers of the National Blue Trail. Its route: from Mátraverebély village until Putnok village through the whole Mátra and Bükk Mountains.
Validation:
You can bring personally the validation booklet to the address of the association: 3300 Eger, Dobó tér 6/A. third floor, or you can send by post the diploma, which you have got from the Hungarian Hikers’ Association beside the badge, to the following address: Heves Megyei Természetbarát Szövetség, 3301 Eger, Kossuth Lajos utca 8. Pf.: 256. (Write the address in this form onto the envelope, please!)
The price of the badge is 700 HUF, if you ask for the badge by post, you have to pay the postal costs, as well. The accont number, where you can send the costs: Heves Megyei Természetbarát Szövetség 11739009-20196769.
You can see the crest of Heves County in the middle of the oval badge: a standing stork with a snail in his beak keeping a bunch of grapes with his leg. The text on the badge: BÜKK MÁTRA ÚTJAIN 1963. The bigger (vertical) diameter of the badge is about 27 mm.

E-mail addresses: hmtsz@ektf.hu, or pappla49@gmail.com

Webpage: www.hevesmtsz.hu

Hiker movement along the blue strip marked trails of Balaton-felvidék Region. The movement is open, anybody can participate in it, independently from the membership in hiker associations.
Hikers must complete:

• The whole route of the Blue Trail of Balaton-felvidék Region between Badacsony and Pétfürdő (it is an independent trail from the National Blue Trail)
• The route of National Blue Trail between Keszthely and Nagyvázsony settlements

Validation: Hikers must stamp at the official checkpoints of the movements, or taking photos (selfies) at those checkpoints, where it is prescribed. Further information on the validation sheet

Download of the description and the validation sheet: LINK

Hikers can obtain the badge not only with the downloadable validation sheet, but by the validation booklets of the two above mentioned hiker movements, as well.
In this case it is enough to take a photo about the validation booklet of the Along the Blue Trails of Balaton-felvidék Region with the number of the completion and a similar photo about the validation booklet of the National Blue Trail. If the hiker still does not complete the whole National Blue Trail, he/she has to take photos about the appropriate pages of the booklet (pages, which show the stamps between Keszthely and Nagyvázsony).

The price of the badge: 1000 Ft, with money transfer (Edina Csornai - OTP 11773487-00033244)
Announcer: Edina Csornai
E-mail: cs.edu85@gmail.com
Mobile phone: 70/622-3552

Hikers have to visit twenty-six (26) lookout towers located along the whole route of the National Blue Trail. The movement has an own validation sheet, hikers must stamp onto the sheet at those checkpoints of the Blue Trail, which are the closest to the lookout towers. These checkpoints are nominated on the sheet. You can download the validation sheet by clicking on this LINK.

Those blue trail walkers, who already has the validation booklet of the National Blue Trail, do not have to stamp into the validation sheet of the movement at the visit of the lookout towers, because after the completion of the Blue Trail they can obtain the badge of this movement by the official certificate of the Hungarian Hikers’ Association, which the hikers obtain together with the Blue Trail's badge. It is enough to make a copy (take a photo) about the certificate and send it in e-mail or in an envelope to the announcer of the movement.

Validation: With the own validation sheet of the movement or with the validation booklet of the National Blue Trail!
Remuneration: badge and certificate
Price of demuneration: 1000.Ft + answer envelope in A5 format with stamp
Organizer of the movement: Imre Orban
Address: 8523 Egyházaskesző, Kossuth Lajos utca 7. (Write the address in this form onto the envelope, please!)
Information: 06/70/942-4410 and bakonyturistaja@googlemail.com

Hikers have to visit thirty (30) castles located along the whole route of the National Blue Trail. The movement has an own validation sheet, hikers must stamp onto the sheet at those checkpoints of the Blue Trail, which are the closest to the castles. These checkpoints are nominated on the sheet. You can download the validation sheet by clicking on this LINK.

Those blue trail walkers, who has already the validation booklet of the National Blue Trail, do not have to stamp onto the validation sheet of the movement at the visit of the castles, because after the completion of the Blue Trail they can obtain the badge of this movement by the official certificate of the Hungarian Hikers’ Association, which the hikers obtain together with the Blue Trail's badge. It is enough to make a copy (take a photo) about the certificate and send it in e-mail or in an envelope to the announcer of the movement.

Validation: With the own validation sheet of the movement or with the validation booklet of the National Blue Trail!
Remuneration: badge and certificate
Price of demuneration: 1000.Ft + answer envelope in A5 format with stamp
Organizer of the movement: Imre Orban
Address: 8523 Egyházaskesző, Kossuth Lajos utca 7. (Write the address in this form onto the envelope, please!)
Information: 06/70/942-4410 and bakonyturistaja@googlemail.com

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The Hungarian Hikers’ Association would like to appreciate the efforts of young hikers between ages of 6 and 14, and founded the Junior Blue Trail Hike Movement. This movement has own badges, independently from the badges of adult hikers. Of course, if a young hikers completes the conditions of the Junior Blue Trail Hike and he/she obtain the Junior Blue Trail Hike badges, he/she can get the section badges of the previous chapter, and the “big” National Blue Trail badge, as well.

The young hiker can obtain this badge, if he/she completes 300 km on the route of the National Blue Trail, and he/she can verify this thing with the stamps in his/her personal completion booklet. The completed distance can be the sum of two or more separated sections between different stamping places, as well. The completed distance for the Junior Blue Trail Hike badge is included in the completed distance for the “big” Blue Trail's badge.

The colours and shape of the Junior Blue Trail Hike badge are similar to the “big” Blue Trail's badge. Its size is about 45 mm between the upper-right and bottom-left corners.

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The whole route of the National Blue Trail is divided onto nine bigger sections and every section has an own badge. If a young hiker completes 50 km distance in a section, and he/she can certify this thing with the collected stamps in his/her personal completion booklet, he/she will obtain the badge of the apprpriate section. You can find further information about the section badges in the Announcement chapter.

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