Are you thinking about visiting Ireland? But you want to know what to see and what to do. The 10 Most Beautiful Places in Ireland to Visit Now:
Dublin
Dublin is an amazing city it’s beautiful. It’s got tons of nightlife and you pretty much have a lot of the best things from Ireland. So more likely than not you’re going to go to the Guinness Storehouse. It’s basically where they make and store Guinness, it’s an amazing tourist attraction. Definitely very busy but it’s popular for a reason it was ranked the best tourist attraction in all of Europe.
The priceless manuscript made by Irish monks over a thousand years ago that basically protected a wealth of knowledge through the dark ages and saved.
Wild Atlantic way
A good place to start is Sligo that gives you the option going north towards Northern Ireland or south towards Galway. Just go out there and get lost. The west coast of Ireland is extremely remote there’s tons of isolated capes and cool little quirky villages that you can go check out. The town of Strand Hill it’s got this chilled out certified big old Beach you can take surf lessons there after having a surf head over to voyage. Try the traditional Irish remedy of a steaming hot seaweed that in salt water. It will rejuvenate the soul and it will make you silky smooth.
Slieve League
This is just north of Sligo. They’re the highest cliffs in Ireland and the highest sea cliffs in Europe. The dwarf the Cliffs of Moher yeah cliff Samara ain’t got nothing. It’s really cool place. League is infinitely less crowded than the crystal. This place is Instagram gold so grab your camera grab your travel buddy and head to sleeve league. Before it gets totally blown up stuff gets too close. Those clips it’s a long way down next up the city of Gawain.
Galway
Galway is a university town on the west coast of Ireland. It’s super funky I think it wins like the funky award for Ireland. Has got street arts, tons of musicians. I believe it’s one of the most musical cities in Ireland. I think it’s got like the busking capital of the world. It is said it’s home to artists, musicians, killer restaurants and it’s a great place to base yourself for exploring the surrounding area.
So always one of the best places to experience traditional Irish language known as Gaelic. Galway is also known for its oysters. You can get a serious seafood platter there also restaurants like Kai and air in Galway City serve up some delicious meals.
Aran Islands
Aran Islands not to be confused with the Iron Islands which were also filmed in Ireland for Game of Thrones. The Aran Islands are next to Galway most people from gali would go to Cliffs of Moher. But we would suggest going to Aran Islands. It is a short plane ride away or a ferry wreck. It’s a really cool Island, observe the ancient style of Irish life. If you’re into adrenaline activities head to the Aran Islands because red bull used to host the cliff-diving World Championships.
CountyCork
County Cork is the birthplace of the local food movement in Ireland. It is the breadbasket of the country and home to tons of amazing local producers. For example Irish cheese at places like goo bean. You can go kayaking along the amazing coastline there all these crazy rocks and then harvest seaweed to bring back and cook with the southwest of Ireland.
It’s quite temperate and beautiful little coastal towns like Kinsale make a great place to stop before heading into Cork City. It is full of history from Ireland’s battle with the English for independence.
Belfast
As you might know, Ireland has been independent of the UK for about a hundred years. But it still remains divided into two separate countries about 80% is in the South known as the Republic of Ireland and 20% of the land it belongs to the UK as Northern Ireland. A couple of decades ago it was completely ravaged by guerrilla warfare car bombs and all sorts of partisan violence.
Thankfully northern Ireland is now experiencing peace and one of the best ways to learn about history and also see how the city is healing its wounds.
Game of Thrones
Northern Ireland should be at the top of your bucket list because a lot of the filming locations for Game of Thrones are in Northern Ireland. Including the real-life Winterfell where you can dress up in like bearskin cloaks, take swords to learn how to shoot bows and arrows. Basically, be a part of the family stark for a day. It’s awesome also one of the super cool things is that they have the direwolf’s here.
Giant’s Causeway
It’s about an hour and a half outside of Belfast. It’s a natural rock formation. According to myth, it was created by two giants who were fighting to learn more. Down the road from the Giant’s Causeway is the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge, a really cool little rope bridge linking a headland that used to be the home of a salmon fisherman. It is like one of the ultimate Instagram spots. If you’re Marko it’s a great place to get a kinder profile picture.
There are tons of options everything from amazing whiskeys like Jameson’s or Bushmills to the beautiful craftwork that has undergone an amazing revitalization revival in recent years. The best place to find this is in the capital these stores like indigo cloth and the Irish design shop. They have some really cool products all across the country.
