Wild Atlantic Way Passport Can Bought Experience Around the Stunning Coastline of Ireland
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Call to any of the Tourist Information Offices listed below for local information, advice & guidance. You can purchase your Wild Atlantic Way IRELAND WILD ATLANTIC passport and collect Passport stamps at the selected offices marked below. WAY PASSPORT Northern Headlands Clifden Tourist Office * Killarney Discover Ireland Centre ® Letterkenny Tourist Office ® Galway Road, Clifden, Co Galway Beech Road, Killarney, Co Kerry Planning a visit to the Wild Atlantic Way? Neil T. Blaney Road, Letterkenny, Aran Tourist Office ® Valentia Island Community Tourist Office Co Donegal Then you’re in for a treat! This 2,500km Kilronan, Inis Mór, Co Galway No 2 Watch House Cottages, Dungloe Community Tourist Office Knightstown, Valentia Island, Co Kerry ® stretch of glorious rugged coast along the Ionad Tempeall Chroine, Chapel Road, Galway Discover Ireland Centre Dungloe, Co Donegal Aras Failte, Forster Street, Galway City, Kenmare Tourist Office * west of Ireland is home to soaring mountains, Co Galway Heritage Centre, Kenmare, Co Kerry Donegal Discover Ireland Centre ® jutting headlands, breath-taking cliff faces Bantry Community Tourist Office * and lush green forests. Whether you’re And it gets better! The route is divided up into six zones, and The Quay, Donegal Town, Co Donegal Cliff Coast ® The Square, Bantry, Co Cork once you’ve gathered your first 20 stamps you can call to any of Bundoran Community Tourist Office Ennis Tourist Office seeking an epic adventure or a remote, A Stamp for Every Memory the Tourist Information Offices listed to receive a special Wild The Bridge, Bundoran, Co Donegal Arthur’s Row, Ennis, Co Clare Your passport will serve as a life-long memento of your travels Haven Coast tranquil getaway, you’ll find it here, on the Atlantic Way gift. If you’ve missed a stamp while in a zone just Limerick Tourist Office ® Skibbereen Community Tourist Office * along this astonishing 2,500km length of coast, and also enables call to the main Post Office or Tourist Information Offices in Surf Coast 20 O’Connell Street, Limerick City, North Street, Skibbereen, Co Kerry world’s longest defined coastal touring route. ® you to obtain your ‘Wild Atlantic Way Certificate’, the official that zone to collect it. And don’t worry about trying to fit all Sligo Tourist Office Co Limerick Clonakilty Tourist Office ® What’s more, you can now pick up your very own Wild record of your journey. Each beautifully designed passport has 188 Discovery Points into your trip; you can keep adding stamps O’Connell Street, Sligo Town, Co Sligo its own individual number, so it’s completely unique to you and Listowel Community Tourist Office * Ashe Street, Clonakilty, Co Cork WILD ATLANTIC WAY Atlantic Way passport; a unique souvenir of your completed to your passport every time you visit. Ballina Community Tourist Office Kerry Literary & Cultural Centre, your visit. And as you make your way along this inspiring stretch Kinsale Tourist Office ® journey along this exceptional route. Not only is it a genuine 44 Pearse Street, Ballina, Co Mayo Listowel, Co Kerry of coast, you can get it stamped at a host of scenic spots. passport to paradise, it also gives you the chance to meet Purchase your passport at any Fáilte Ireland Tourist Belmullet Community Tourist Office Pier Road, Kinsale, Co Cork Tralee Tourist Office ® locals in the many towns and villages dotted along this Information Office along the Wild Atlantic Way and at any ® PASSPORT There are 188 Discovery Points peppering the route, from the wild Main Street, Belmullet, Co Mayo Cork Tourist Office winding coastline. After a quick chat you’ll soon have insider Post Office in counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Denny Street, Tralee, Co Kerry Donegal headlands in the north, right down to the picturesque Grand Parade, Cork City, Co Cork knowledge on incredible local hidden gems - not to mention Clare, Kerry and Cork at a cost of €10. Passports are also Bay Coast peninsulas of Kerry and Cork, and each one has its own individual available in Dublin at the General Post Office on O’Connell Newport Community Tourist Office * Southern Peninsulas where to stop for your next picnic or coastal panorama. ® Dingle Tourist Office ® stamp. Simply call into the Post Offices or Tourist Information Street and at St. Andrew Street Post Office. Georges Street, Newport, Co Mayo Get your Passport & stamps here! There’s a reward when you complete your passport too - Offices in the towns and villages adjacent to each Discovery The Quay, Dingle, Co Kerry Westport Discover Ireland Centre ® * seasonal office you’ll receive your Wild Atlantic Way certificate! Point, and staff there will be happy to stamp your passport. See www.wildatlanticway.com/passport for more information. Bridge Street, Westport, Co Mayo THE WILD ATLANTIC WAY – A journey of a lifetime Wherever you go along the Wild lighthouse.. Imagine being far from anywhere, but close to Whale and Dolphin Watching fishing ports and smokehouses. It’s a route you can dip into or everything that’s good for your heart and great for your soul. do in its entirety, an opportunity to explore Ireland’s pristine Almost one third of the world’s species of whales, dolphins Atlantic Way, you will encounter Fresh air. Incredible views. Nature around you. And the sea oceans, to sample its food story, to enjoy an unforgettable and porpoises, collectively known as cetaceans, have been stretching out in front of you, vast, powerful and mysterious. taste of place on a plate. Seafood is where the Wild Atlantic Start your journey on: moments of magic, moments to recorded in Irish waters. In 1991 the Irish government Way meets Ireland’s unique culture. It’s about lobster and crab, www.wildatlanticway.com treasure and experiences that you will declared Irish waters a whale and dolphin sanctuary - the Visit www.greatlighthouses.com for more information. salmon and mackerel, oysters and mussels plucked fresh from first of its kind in Europe – and the Wild Atlantic Way is at want to return to again and again. the heaving ocean. But it’s also about the men and women For additional information: the very heart of Ireland’s whale and dolphin sanctuary. who mix tradition and 21st century techniques to bring it from www.facebook.com/irelandswaw National Parks Our waters are also among the best in the world for tide to table, to serve it just a few miles (or in some cases, just The Wild Atlantic Way is home to five of the six National sightings of the planet’s second largest fish, the Explore our Islands a few feet) from where it’s caught. See the ocean. Meet the www.youtube.com/wildatlanticway Parks in Ireland. These parks provides plankton feeding basking shark, which arrives Experience the awesome power, beauty and people. Feel the welcome. A taste of the Atlantic beckons, so unique opportunities in late spring but can be seen throughout the www.instagram.com/thewildatlanticway wonder of the Wild Atlantic Way up close bring an appetite… and your sense of adventure! to interact with summer in settled waters. and personal with a visit to some of and observe some @wildatlanticway the hundreds of islands scattered off Visit www.wildatlanticway.com/highlights/taste-the- #wildatlanticway incredible wildlife, Festivals wild-atlantic-way for more detailed information. the West coast. White sandy beaches, plant life and rare towering cliff faces, turquoise seas, natural habitats. Some countries have seasons dedicated to festivals. history, heritage and culture all abound The five parks are The Wild Atlantic Way has an entire calendar. Traditional Music along the Wild Atlantic Way and nowhere Glenveagh National Kicking off in January and packing the months until If you like Irish music, maybe you already have a sense of more so than on the islands. The isolation of Park, Co. Donegal, December, festivals are in the hundreds, and know the magic that awaits when you journey into the heart island life fosters a unique way of life with the Ballycroy National Park, exactly how to catch our attention. of traditional Irish music – the unique atmosphere of the environment having its own impact on its people, landscape, live, local experience, the fusion of sounds and styles, Co. Mayo, Connemara Some see international bands rocking culture and tradition. On each island you’ll experience unique old and new. You’ll find the sounds of traditional music National Park, Co. exceptional outdoor venues. Others host characteristics, as if each is an individual nation. both mysterious and familiar, because the styles Galway, The Burren traditional musicians in intimate pubs or and rhythms of our folk songs, ballads, jigs or reels The journeys to reach the islands of Ireland are as much a part National Park, Co. Clare on remote islands such as Valentia and have found their way into almost every style of of the experience and adventure as the islands themselves. For and Killarney National Arranmore. Other events could see contemporary music. So whatever your tastes, you some you drive across impressive causeways and bridges, or Park, Co. Kerry. These parks you on seafood safaris along the won’t be disappointed: there really is something for for Dursey Island board a cable car, but for most it is the island may vary in size dramatically in Wild Atlantic Way. One thing they everyone with a vibrant culture of traditional music, ferries that will bring you to your chosen island escape. size and landscape. But they all have in common? Fun! all have one thing in common song and dance, concerts and pub sessions aplenty. Lighthouses – they’re scenic wonders and Food havens for walkers. For hundreds of years lighthouses have helped seafarers There’s more to Ireland’s west coast find their way.