In the end, there is only one travel companion to 7 days trip to Ireland. We fly from Liverpool to Belfast, our first stop. We arrived early at the hostel at about 9am, only to find that we can only check in 10pm, and that caused us to miss the hostel's own tour to Giant's Causeway. Having no choice, we took bus there ourselves. Although we have only about 1 hour there, we had fun nevertheless, and the view is breathtaking.
Dunluce Castle near Giant's Causeway.
Giant's CausewayAt night, we went out for Belfast's night view. Too bad my camera is not good enough to take pictures at night..
Belfast at night.23 July 2010 - Dublin
We depart for Dublin the next morning, and found that Mary Gibbons tour to Newgrange is not as good as they say. Apparently, somebody made a booking on another time and came today, which means there is no place for us, so we took another tour there, luckily, there was just enough empty seats for us!
About the place, there are three mega tombs, Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth. Sunlight will penetrate through these tombs to their center, lighting up the whole chamber. This period is specific for each of the tomb. For newgrange, it's morning of the Winter Solstice, evening of Autumn Equinox at Knowth, and evening of Winter Solstice at Dowth. We visited only Knowth and Newgrange, because Dowth is not accessible. In my opinion, Knowth is more interesting since it features a lunar calender, and it has two access passages.
Knowth
NewgrangeSadly, we did not make it to visit Dublin's night view because we had to do report given by our lecturer :(
But hey, we manage to visit Guinness Warehouse which is what Dublin is all about ;)
More to come...
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