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IRELAND _________________________
The Beara-way Tips: Low cost airlines bring you to Dublin or Cork. From
Dublin is quite a time in the bus to - our destination for example - Kenmare
( 5 hours). From Cork to Kenmare is 2 1/2 hours by bus. The Beara-way is a way-marked route, 197 kilometers,
around the peninsula, at the west coast of Ireland. There is no official
starting point or end : begin where you want to begin. The trail goes through
old roads and footpaths, such as the - on the peninsula - famous O’Sullivan Bere march from 1602.
Highest point of the trail: 340 m. Maps:
the Ordnance Survey of Ireland 84 en 85; you can buy the maps on route. Sleeping and eating: a lot of B&B’s . Or the
youth hostel. Or a holiday home! |
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March
2005: 6 stages of the Beara-way. You can complete the route in 8 days ,
including a more or less round-walk at Bear Island. Day 1: Kenmare - Lough Inchiquin ( holiday home 2
1/2 Day 2: Lough Inchiquin - Ardgroom Day 3: Ardgroom - Castletown Bearhaven (variante) Day 4: round walk at Bear-Island ( ferry from Castletown
Bearhaven) Day 5: Casteltown Bearhaven - Adrigole Day 6: Adrigole - Glengariff and
by direct bus (18.00 hours in 2005) to Cork |
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On the route: the never ending colors of the Irish
west coast , the Caha and the Slieve Miskish mountains. You can admire as
well the views at Bantry-bay, Kenmare-river, as the Atlantic Ocean.” The
views can be breath-taking.” A lot of
remains from the former residents: the stone-circles, standing stones
and the megalithic tombs. The loughs in the mountains, the colors of some
villages (Eyeries), sheep, the gasp, the rough coast in the far west……...and
all that in a week walking! |
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Lough Fada |
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Kenmare river |