Coastal Tour & Wicklow Mountains
Take a day trip to the beautiful Wicklow Mountains, also known as the Garden of Ireland, and see some of Ireland's most breathtaking scenery. Lots of Mountains, Lakes, and Rivers. This tour is designed for people who would like a little bit more in-depth information on the places they are visiting.
Sandymount Beach
We will take the coast road from Dublin where you will have the opportunity to see Sandymount Beach & Dublin Bay in all their glory. It features in the opening chapter of Ulysses. This is where W. B. Yeats once lived and now where Prof. Seamus Heaney lives (both Nobel Prize winners). On to the port of Dun Laoghaire.
Roundwood Village
This is the highest village in Ireland in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains. We will continue on into the village of Laragh.
Glendalough
...is a monastic complex in a remote valley in the Wicklow Mountains. It was founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century and became a centre of learning, refuge, contemplation and creativity in early medieval times (6th - 12th Century A.D.)
The power, wealth and status of the monastery was a refiection of the powerful role Abbots such as Laurence O'Toole played in Ireland until the 12th century.
Celtic crosses, Ballaun stone, a Round Tower, Cathedral, romanesque remains and the unique stone roof church with tower and belfry, St. Kevin's Kitchen, within an earthen enclosure and nestled at the edge of two lakes, makes this one of the most impressive monastic sites in Ireland.
Enniskerry
See the Victorian village of Enniskerry. We will be stopping for lunch at the beautiful setting of the Powerscourt Gardens...
Powerscourt
"What makes the gardens at Powerscourt so remarkable is their grandeur of scale combined, as so rarely happens, with great delicacy and refinement of detail. Their setting is superb, but their design and execution are worthy of it.
"Meticulously kept, every part of the gardens rewards the closet study. Powerscourt is a magnificent example of an aristocratic garden laid out with taste, knowledge and imagination. It is probably the last garden of its size and quality ever to have been created."
—Peter Coats, Great Gardens of the Western World
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