IRISH HIGHLIGHTS

• Tread in the footsteps of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, through the lyrical streets of Dublin – your launch pad to a memorable encounter with Ireland’s iconic highlights.
• After a leisurely morning, meet a Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour with views of Trinity College, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the stately Georgian Squares.
• Indulge in a little Irish craic this evening, joining your Travel Director and fellow travellers for a Welcome Dinner.

Arrival Transfer: Depart the airport at 08:30, 11:00, 13:00

Included Experience:Dublin City Tour

• We journey to Galway, the ‘City of Tribes’ and spend some free time exploring its stone façades.
• Irish traditions and heritage are explored next, during a visit to Bunratty Castle and its Folk Park, a living history museum that reveals insights into life in Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Continue to Limerick, for an orientation tour and view the 13th-century King John’s Castle overlooking the Shannon.

Included Experience: Stroll Through Galway and Limerick Orientation

Optional Experience: Medieval Castle Banquet

• We leave Limerick and stop at the spectacular Cliffs of Moher on the famous ‘Wild Atlantic Way’.
• Join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience with your local specialist to truly appreciate this breath-taking landscape.
• You’ll feel like you’ve gone back to an ancient time as you gaze across the water, all the way to the Aran Islands if the weather is good.
• Visit the interactive visitor centre where this incredible UNESCO-listed natural phenomenon comes to life in a way you would not get to see with your own eyes.
• You’ll continue to your hotel in Killarney with a scenic drive to the ferry departure point and journey across the Shannon Estuary.
• Our home for the next two nights is the colourful little town of Killarney.

Optional Experience: Experience a Jaunting Cart Ride / Celtic Steps / Irish Ceilidh Evening

• Circle the spectacular Ring of Kerry – its emerald green hills, centuries-old stone villages and vivid blue seascapes provide a soul-stirring backdrop.
• We’ll see Daniel O’Connell’s Cahirciveen, Moll’s Gap and the Black Valley, renowned for being the last place in Ireland to get electricity and telephone networks.
• Consider joining an Optional Experience to Muckross House and its beautiful gardens.
• Enjoy taking in the towering azaleas and rhododendrons, alongside the shores of the lake.

Included Experience: See the Ring of Kerry

Optional Experience: Visit Muckross House and its Gardens

• Cross the rugged Kerry Mountains and travel to Blarney Castle to kiss the stone and acquire the ‘gift of the gab’.
• Continue to Waterford, where we will have dinner at our hotel.

Included Experience: Visit Blarney Castle

Optional Experience: Irish Folk Fun

• Dive Into Culture and witness the centuries-old tradition of crafting fine glass at the House of Waterford Crystal.
•  Here we will watch the talented master crafters in their workshop creating exquisite pieces.
• Our next stop is in the town of New Ross, where we’ll see the monument to John F. Kennedy who travelled to his ancestral family hometown in 1963.
• We’ll visit the three-masted famine ship Dunbrody and Dive Into Culture yet again, gaining insights into the tragic plight of the Irish emigrants who fled the potato famine during the 1800s.
• Continuing through County Wexford and the lush countryside of County Wicklow, we journey to Dublin stopping en route at Glenealy Farmhouse.
• We’ll Connect With Locals over a Be My Guest Farewell Dinner and meet the Fulvio family.

Included Experience: Join the Fulvio Family at Glenealy House to Enjoy Traditional Irish Fare with an Italian Twist and New Ross Visit

Optional Experience: Explore Waterford’s History

• For now, it’s time to say a fond slán abhaile to your fellow travellers as you close the curtain on an unforgettable journey through the ‘Emerald Isle’.

Departure Transfer: Arrive at the airport at 07:00, 09:00, 11:00