Goway Travel
OFFER ID 1610218
This great value coach tour stays in 4 star hotels.
Stay overnight in Dublin before heading south to County Kerry and Blarney Castle where kissing the Blarney Stone is a tradition. Also visit the Blarney Woollen Mills, possibly the largest quality crafts shop in Ireland. Continue to Killarney in South West Ireland for a 2 night stay.
Enjoy here a tour of the exceptional Ring of Kerry on the Iveragh Peninsula with its mountains, peat bogs, lakes and magnificent coastal scenery with views of the Dingle Peninsula and Dingle Bay to the north. Have stops in Waterville and the village of Sneem famous for its coloured houses. Return via the Killarney National Park where you will have a pony and trap ride in what is known as a Jaunting Car. Later return to Killarney.
Leave Killarney and continue north to Tarbert where you will have a ferry ride across the Shannon River to Killimer. Then travel to the Atlantic Coast to view the immense and awe-inspiring Cliffs of Moher which rise sheer out of the sea to a great height and are 8 kilometres/5 miles in length. Call in at the Atlantic Edge Centre. After this, visit the Burren Region, a high plateau of porous limestone, a karsts landscape with some interesting plant life. Continue to Limerick for overnight. Here you can partake in an optional medieval banquet at the 15th Century Bunratty Castle including a 4 course meal with wine.
Travel north to Galway, your home for the next 2 nights. Here visit Galway Cathedral, one of the most impressive and largest buildings in the city. Afterwards, have a 1 1/2 hour long cruise starting on the Corrib River and sailing into Lough Corrib, the largest lake in Ireland with its historic monuments. Return later to Galway.
The next morning brings a visit to Connemara, the land of mountains, rivers, lakes and small villages where the Gaelic language is still widely spoken. This area is the wildest and most remote part of the country. Travel through Connemara National Park with its diverse flora and fauna. Also visit Kylemore Abbey with its miniature cathedral before returning to Galway.
Today you will depart Galway and head back to Dublin. En route stop at Clonmacnoise on the banks of the Shannon and explore the visitors centre. Continue to Dublin. The North Side of the city offers striking monuments such as the GPO (General Post Office) on O'Connell Street & the Phoenix Park, the largest public park in Europe. The South Side appears more sophisticated with its vast Georgian squares and is home to Trinity College, Dublin Castle and two Anglican Cathedrals. Visit Trinity College, Ireland's oldest university and home to the Book of Kells. Later, consider an optional evening’s entertainment at Taylor's Three Rock (or similar), a lively pub in Rathfarnham for an excellent night of traditional music and dance.
The next morning, depart from Dublin completing your exploration of fascinating and friendly Ireland.
7 nights from $1,970 per person
All fares are quoted in US Dollars.
extensive gardens, which are open to the public; as is the Main House. There is a lovely restaurant in the house, overlooking the gardens and Wicklow Mountains, which offers the finest in Irish artisan, home cooked cuisine. The 34,000 acres of this estate extend along both shores of the River Dargle . Powerscourt is one of the finest properties in Europe, designed and laid out by Daniel Robertson between 1745 and 1767. This property is filled with splendid Greek and Italian-inspired statuary, decorative ironwork, a petrified-moss grotto, lovely herbaceous borders, a Japanese garden, a circular pond and fountain with statues of winged horses, and an occasional herd of deer. Opportunity for shopping at Avoca Handweavers now located in Powerscourt House. Enjoy lunch here at Powerscourt or at a traditional Irish pub in the city centre.
number of city parks, such as St. Stephen’s Green and indeed Merrion Square. The highlights of any tour in Dublin may include a visit to Trinity College, the Guinness Storehouse… and –if time permits –St. Patrick’s Cathedral.