6 DAY / 6 NIGHT IRELAND ITINERARY (NORTH OF ISLAND GEOGRAPHY) INCLUDES BELFAST & NORTHERN IRELAND FI-101432-B-ENG-0518-v7.indd 1 17/05/2018 12:07 6 Day / 6 night Ireland Itinerary DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE Arrive Belfast via Stena Line Glenveagh Castle, Lake and National Park Donegal Castle www.visitbelfast.com www.glenveaghnationalpark.ie Enjoy the remote www.heritageireland.ie/en/north-west/donegalcastle and hauntingly beautiful wilderness of one of Ireland’s Step back in time and experience a castle dating back Titanic Experience National Parks. Letterkenny – Glenveagh (24km – to 15th Century with a guided tour. www.titanicbelfast.com Uncover the myths, legends 25min Drive). and explore the facts about this famous ship with a Mullaghmore Head visit to the award winning interactive museum ‘Titanic Triona Design & Nancy’s Bar Ardara www.wildatlanticway.com/directory/signature/ Belfast’ (Larne – Belfast: 31km – 35min Drive). www.trionadesign.com www.facebook.com/ mullaghmore-head/127 Capture amazing views and Nancys-Bar-Ardara-133942016677611 Experience photos of the Slieve League Cliffs & Classiebawn Castle Giants Causeway the history and witness the skill and craft that has at Mullaghmore. (Donegal Town – Mullaghmore: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/giants-causeway Walk in gone into Donegal Tweed for generations followed by 44km – 35min Drive). the footsteps of Giants (Belfast – Giants Causeway: an Irish Coffee and sharing Seafood platter at Nancy’s, 99km – 1hr 20min Drive). Adara (Glenveagh – Ardara: 63km – 1hr 5min Drive). Lissadell House & Gardens www.lissadellhouse.com Follow in the footsteps of Derry City Sliabh Liag W. B. Yeats (famous Irish writer) & the Gore-Booth www.discovernorthernireland.com/about-northern- www.sliabhliag.com Ireland’s Ultimate sea cliff Family at this Grand Stately Home (Mullaghmore – ireland/destinations/walled-city-of-derry/walledcity experience, Sliabh Liag re known as the highest Lissadell: 18km – 21min Drive). Take a city walking tour around the city walls crammed accessible sea cliffs in Europe reaching a height of full of history and heritage. (Giants Causeway – Derry: FOR AN EARLY EVENING EXPERIENCE, 1,972 feet/601 meters, is almost twice as high as the CHOOSE FROM: 66km – 1hr 10min Drive). Eiffel Tower in Paris (Ardara – Sliabh Liag: 29km – 44 ins Drive). • Island View Riding Stables Overnight Letterkenny www.islandviewridingstables.com Trek along the Derry City – Letterkenny (35km – 37min Drive). Overnight Donegal Town OR Rossnowlagh shores of the WAW enjoying the views of Majestic Sliabh Liag – Donegal Town (59km – 1 hr 10min Drive). Benbulben. (Streedagh – Island View Grange:7km – Sliabh Liag – Rossnowlagh (59km – 1hr 15min Drive). 8min Drive). • Prannie Rhatigan’s Irish Seaweed Tours www.irishseaweedkitchen.ie Enjoy a guided tour and some foraging of Irish Seaweeds on Streedagh Beach. Island View (Grange – Streedagh: 7km – 8min Drive). WWW.IRELAND.COM | WWW.WILDATLANTICWAY.COM | WWW.IRELANDSANCIENTEAST.COM | WWW.VISITDUBLIN.COM | WWW.VISITBELFAST.COM FI-101432-B-ENG-0518-v7.indd 2 17/05/2018 12:07 (North of Island Geography) • Voya Seaweed Baths Causey Farm Guinness Storehouse www.voyaseaweedbaths.com Detox in an Organic www.causey.ie Meet the Murtagh’s - descendants of www.guinness-storehouse.com Home of the famous Seaweed Bath (Streedagh – Strandhill: 26km – the Kings & Chieftains of Co. Meath and explore farm Guinness Brewery, located in the heart of Dublin City. 30min Drive). life and Irish baking traditions on this working Irish (Trinity College – Guinness Storehouse: 2.3km – 25 farm (Longford – Causey Farm :77km – 1hr 5min Drive). mins walk). Overnight in Sligo (Grange – Sligo Town: 16km – 16min Drive); (Strandhill Slane Castle Irish House Party – Sligo Town: 9km – 14min Drive). www.slanecastle.ie/ Tour & Whiskey Tasting in the www.theirishhouseparty.com Kick up your heels at Boyne Valley’s Historic Slane Castle (Causey Farm – the Celtic Nights Traditional Irish Music Dance Show Slane Castle (34km – 32min Drive). & Dinner. (Guinness Storehouse – Landsdowne Hotel: 5km – 16min Drive). DAY FOUR Overnight City North Hotel Overnight Dublin Atlantic Sheepdogs www.citynorthhotel.com (Slane Castle – City North Hotel: 28km – 26min Drive) www.facebook.com/atlanticsheepdogs Join the Atlantic Sheepdog Experience & see how these sheepdogs are a key part of a working farm life DAY SIX (Lissadell – Streedagh, Grange (9km – 12min Drive). DAY FIVE Powerscourt House & Gardens Travel to Carrick-on-Shannon Malahide Castle www.powerscourt.com Voted no 3 Gardens in the www.mycarrick.ie (Sligo to Carrick-on-Shannon: www.malahidecastleandgardens.ie Set on a 260 world by National Geographic, explore an amazing 47 54km -39 mins Drive). acre estate, this castle dates back to 1175, one of the acres of gardens, meander through the charismatic oldest castles in Ireland. Enjoy a castle tour, walk of the stores in Powerscourt House and indulge at the Avoca Moon River Cruise gardens and enjoy some retail shopping in the Avoca Terrace Café. (Dublin –Powerscourt: 46km- 45mins www.moonriver.ie Enjoy a 1 hour pleasure cruise Shop and Café (City North Hotel to Malahide Castle Drive). along the Shannon River, Ireland’s longest river with 34km – 36 mins Drive). Afternoon in Dublin City (At your leisure) refreshment on board. Trinity College (Powerscourt House – Dublin City Centre (43km – Travel onwards to Co. Meath www.tcd.ie/visitors Located on the grounds of 40min Drive). www.meath.ie/tourism (Carrick-on Shannon to Ireland’s oldest and most renowned university, Trinity CONSIDER VISIT TO: Causey Farm:110km- 1hr 26 mins Drive). College Dublin Old Library houses the famous Book • Dublin Hop on- Hop off Bus Tours of Kells, the world’s oldest and most famous surviving www.dodublin.ie/city-sightseeing-tours manuscripts dating back to 800 AD. (Malahide – Trinity College: 15km – 25min Drive). • Dublin Castle & Chester Beatty Library www.cbl.ie WWW.IRELAND.COM | WWW.WILDATLANTICWAY.COM | WWW.IRELANDSANCIENTEAST.COM | WWW.VISITDUBLIN.COM | WWW.VISITBELFAST.COM FI-101432-B-ENG-0518-v7.indd 3 17/05/2018 12:07 • Dalkey Castle www.dalkeycastle.com (20 min journey by DART Dublin Light Rail) Derry • EPIC – Irish Emigration Museum www.epicchq.com Belfast Ireland Sligo • Irish Whiskey Museum www.irishwhiskeymuseum.ie Dundalk Wild Atlantic Way Route • Croke Park Museum & Skyline Tour – Home of Gaelic Games Wild Atlantic Way Region Galway Athlone www.crokepark.ie/GAAMuseum Dublin Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands • Experience Gaelic Games (pre book groups) Limerick www.experiencegaelicgames.com Ireland’s Ancient East Dublin Wexford • Dublin Bay Cruise Tralee Northern Ireland Killarney Waterford • www.dublinbaycruises.com Cork • Enjoy a Game of Golf at one of Dublin’s many golf courses (pre-booking required) www.visitdublin.com/search-results?st=golf Overnight Dublin DAY 7 Depart Dublin CREATED BY WEEKLY DIRECT FLIGHTS TO CHINA Business Development, Failte Ireland Hainan Airways: Dublin - Beijing 2/week FI-101432-B-ENG-0518 + via Edinburgh 2/week Cathay Pacific: Dublin - Hong Kong 2/week WWW.IRELAND.COM | WWW.WILDATLANTICWAY.COM | WWW.IRELANDSANCIENTEAST.COM | WWW.VISITDUBLIN.COM | WWW.VISITBELFAST.COM FI-101432-B-ENG-0518-v7.indd 4 17/05/2018 12:07.