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One Island, One Tour! Typical itinerary.
We concentrate on the highlights of the four corners of Ireland and visit them in a detailed fashion.
**Day 1** Dublin – Drogheda – Belfast – Giants Causeway
Departing Dublin we drive North. Before the border we stop at the historic town of Drogheda on the River Boyne, scene of the bloody battle in 1690. We visit St. Peters Cathedral and view the fully preserved head of St. Oliver Plunkett, decapitated in 1681.
Onwards to Belfast, birthplace of the Titanic, where we were explore all the political, cultural and historical sites in this amazing city. A world famous Black Taxi tour (optional) can take you to see the tragic ‘peace walls’ and the colourful political wall murals of the Protestant/Loyalist Shankill area and the Catholic/Republican Falls Road. Our overnight stay is in musical Ballintoy beside the Giants Causeway, a short drive away from Belfast nestling peacefully in the glorious, green Glens of Antrim.
**Day 2** Ballintoy – Derry – Donegal
After an enjoyable night singing in Ballintoy, our first daunting task this morning is to cross the Carrick a rede swinging rope bridge (seasonal). Soon after we can reflect on the crossing when sitting on the eight wonder of the world, the Giants Causeway. A photostop at Dunluce Castle, ancestral home of the Antrim MacDonnell Clan, and on to the historic walled city of Derry or Londonderry where we take a guided tour of the City walls and bogside area, scene of Bloody Sunday in 1972. Time allowing we visit Grianan Aileach, the glorious ancient coronation site of the Kings of Uster. Tonight we stay in Bundoran in Donegal, the home of Enya and the venue for the World Surfing championships in 2004!
**Day 3** Donegal – Sligo – Connemara – Galway
Into the west! Maybe begin your day by immersing yourself in a luxurious, Victorian seaweed bath? (optional).We visit the grave of WB Yeats our National Poet and Nobel Prize-winner, before we take in the Town of Sligo home of the almost equally famous boyband – Westlife! Amazing scenery around us as we journey through the ‘famine way’ and through Connemara National Park. Tonight trendy Galway, Irelands Party town is our base to explore the West of Ireland.
**Day 4** Galway – the Burren - Cliffs of Moher - Killarney
Sadly we leave Galway behind us, though the Kingdom of Kerry awaits, Happy Days! A relaxing coastal drive around Galway Bay takes us to visit the lunar landscape of the Burren and the majestic Cliffs of Moher in West Clare. We cross the River Shannon by Ferry and into the rolling green farmland and lofty mountains of Kerry. A beautiful aspect of this tour is our 2 night stay in lively Killarney in Irelands South West. We can relax together, learn Irish set dancing, tour the world famous Ring of Kerry and lose ourselves in a world of breathtaking scenery, leprechauns and shamrocks.
**Day 5** Ring of Kerry Tour
Today we concentrate a full day on the most wonderful scenic drive in Western Europe – The Ring of Kerry! Your guide will enchant you with the legends and stories of the Kingdom of Kerry as you cruise through this emerald paradise. Hike up the Gap of Dunloe, storm the peninsula’s pre-historic Celtic stone fortresses, and visit the National Park and Torc Waterfalls, before returning to Killarney to party with the Irish!
**Day 6** Killarney – Blarney Castle – Cork – Cashel – Kilkenny - Dublin
Our final day includes kissing the Blarney stone, perched at the top of the lovely Blarney Castle. We drive through the Golden vale of Tipperary listening to our guide sing ‘its a long way’! Take a guided tour of the Rock of Cashel before lunch and perhaps have a glass of Kilkenny in Kilkenny before we return via the Curragh plains(remember the Braveheart battle scenes?) en route to Dublin. Possibly the most action packed 6 days the independent traveller can ever have?
Included: Light Breakfast includedBedlinen in all accommodation
Not Included: Lunch and evening mealOptional extrasTowels on hire may want to bring own
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| Days: 6 |
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