Five Kilometers of Corn Maze Awaits Adventurous Visitors in Kiszombor

A maze of almost five kilometers has been created in a four-and-a-half-hectare cornfield on the outskirts of Kiszombor (southern Hungary, near the Romanian border). It takes at least an hour to get from the entrance to the exit of the maze, opening this Saturday.

Erzsébet Endrész, chair of the organizer Kiss Mária Hortensia Honismereti Kör (local history association), said that the design of this year’s maze was created by Éva Prónai on graph paper taking about 30 hours. The drawing of the paths features the bells of Kiszombor, that are 100 years old this year, a leaf and an acorn motif commemorating the oak tree next to the cycle path connecting the village with Makó. The waves of Lake Vályogos and the shapes of a fish are also depicted, as well as an owl, many of which spend their winters in the trees of the village’s main square.

The life-size version of the maze was created by four people, who spent some 300-350 hours working on it.

They used trowels and measuring tapes to cut the one-and-a-half-meter-wide streets accurate to within ten centimeters between plants, she said.

Thanks to the rainy weather and the quality seeds used, the height of the plants reaches, and in some places exceeds, 2.5 meters, so that all the visitors can see is the blue sky and the green wall formed by the corn stalks.

The maze will be open until the maize harvest, scheduled for August 20.

On Saturday, the opening day, visitors will be invited to enjoy an archery game. In addition to exploring the path through the maze, guests will be able to take part in a treasure hunt every Saturday, and the association plans to organize astronomy and archaeology lectures at the maze in the coming weeks, Erzsébet Endrész said.

Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Máthé Zoltán