Tag: nature
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Day trip of County Donegal: Wild Atlantic Way and caves by the beach
Ireland road trip: Maghera Caverns on the beach in Ardara and cliffs overlooking the Atlantic. We used the last full day in County Donegal for a day trip to just enjoy the wonderful nature and landscape. As we were planning to spend the last evening in the pub again (they have live music every day…
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On the trail of Luke Skywalker in Ireland – around Inishowen Peninsula
Ireland road trip in a week: Homebase in Letterkenny (Comments in italics by Johanna and Daniel) McGinley’s Pub, Letterkenny. We meet Paul. At least we call him Paul… This Irish accent is still not so easy. > The assumption is obvious, though, since John and Paul seem to be two of the most common male…
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Sightseeing on a day trip from Northern Ireland to the North of Ireland
Ireland Roadtrip: Dublin – Belfast – Letterkenny, 361 km (Comments in italics by Johanna and Daniel) Sightseeing in Northern Ireland: Titanic Museum in Belfast “The beds were damn small back then”. What amazed us the most was not the unimaginable noise from the steel nails hammering, from which the workers went deaf, the fact that…
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Hill riding in the frontier land
Sapa Considering we went to sleep at the top of a mountain, the night rest was very comforting. The absence of „industrial“ noise can be distracting, for us as Western Europeans, but especially for those Vietnamese metropolitans. There were no horns, no traffic noise, no people chatting, crying, arguing or else. In these moments you…
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Frontier Land: A visit to Sapa and the highlands
Hanoi – Sapa Our transfer to Sapa came with the hotel reservation. There are other options to get to this quite remote place close to the Chinese border, all of which take longer. We wanted to make the most of it and enjoy the next days to the fullest, so we are quite lucky to…
