Holiday Ireland Hotels Map of Located Members and Associates
Click on Map to view Hotels in that County.
|
Belfast
This County has a very beautiful and various landscape, so that every coastal village has its distinctive character. The castle at Glenarm is the home of the Earls of Antrim, and Carnlough has a famous inn, which was once owned by Winston Churchill. The red curfew tower in the middle of Cushendall was built in 1809 as 'a place of confinement for idlers and rioters'. The village of Cushendun has very nice Cornish cottages and a lovely beach. On your way through the county you will find roads run under bridges and arches, passing bays, sandy beaches, harbours and strange rock formations. As you turn Ulster's top right-hand corner, the green crescent of Murlough Bay comes into sight. After that the climb to the eerie tableland of Fair Head makes it possible to have a bird's eye view of Rathlin Island.
Main tourist Attractions include the following:
The Giant's Causeway - is a mass of basalt columns, which is packed tightly together. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. The Causeway exists of about 40,000 of these stone columns. The biggest one is about 40 feet high and the lava in the cliffs is 90 feet thick. Most of the stones of the columns are hexagonal formed but some of them have more than four sides. To have a look of these beautiful landscape, you can do a fine circular walk passing by amphitheatres of stone columns and formations with fanciful names like the Honeycomb, the Wishing Well, the Giant's Granny and the King and his Nobles. Further down the coast, the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge spans a gaping chasm between the coast and a small island used by fishermen.
Dunluce Castle - This spectacular crag on the famous North Antrim coast was built when the sea cut deep into the land, exploiting cracks on either side of the rock. The nomadic boatmen who crossed from south-west Scotland in about 7,000 BC and left their flinty axes all along this rugged coast, must have seen the crag from the sea and may have ventured their flimsy coracles into the huge cave that runs through the rock to the land. You can still visit it by boat today.
Belfast Hotels
|
