Ireland
Ireland
Ireland 2018
Experience 8 days exploring and enjoying the incredible beauty of the quite amazing Emerald Isle with Vegansaurus’ Laura Beck
Visit Ireland icons – County Clare, the Cliffs of Moher, and Kilkenny Castle
Explore the lively city and amazing history of Dublin
Spend time at the Donkey Sanctuary of Mallow
Forage and cook plants from the Wild Atlantic Way
Tour Includes
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6 Breakfasts Continental
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4 Lunches
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5 Dinners and one high tea
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7 Nights – 2 nights in a three-star Dublin B&B and 5 nights in a three-star Adare hotel
- All admission to sites
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English speaking guide throughout your stay
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1st class motor coach
Tour Does Not Include
- Travel protection insurance
- International airfare to Ireland
- Dayroom or extra hotel nights necessitated by airline flight schedule changes
- Items of a personal nature, i.e. souvenirs, laundry, phone calls, emails, etc.
- Beverages with meals and meals not noted
- Transfers from and to airports on Day 1 & 8
Tour Program
8 days, 7 nights – Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford, Cork, Wild Atlantic Way, Galway, Burren
Day 1 (Saturday)
Dublin
Check in to our hotel in the heart of the city of Dublin. Settle in and meet us for your welcome dinner, followed up by a pub visit with live music. (Dinner)
Day 2 (Sunday)
Dublin
Take a walking tour of city highlights, pausing for lunch at a local vegan restaurant. Into the evening, we’ll do a pub crawl. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 3 (Monday)
Kilkenny and Waterford
We leave Dublin to explore the southwest of Ireland. We’ll tour the Kilkenny Castle – one of Ireland’s Top 10 castles. Afterwards, we’ll walk through its gardens and down cobblestone roads to a 3-course lunch at Petronella. The afternoon finds us headed to Waterford’s Medieval and Viking museum, and then checking into our Adare hotel where we will be sending the next five nights. (Breakfast, Lunch,)
Day 4 (Tuesday)
Donkeys and Cork
We start our morning hanging out with hundreds of donkeys (!!) that love to be touch and are always looking for human company. After our time at the Donkey Sanctuary of Mallow, we continue to Cork for lunch at the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Ireland. We will explore Cork before returning to Adare for a pub grub dinner. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 5 (Wednesday)
Wild Atlantic Way
Today we will forage and learn about the exceptional nutritional value and unique taste of wild plants, how to identify them, what’s in season, what we can taste, and what to leave be as we go, all the while taking in the beautiful Burren in County Clare. This Wild Food Walk is an engagement with some 8,000 edible plants available to us globally yet most of us eat only a tiny fraction of these. We will bring basic equipment to put together a wild food lunch, overlooking the ocean. After lunch, we will have free time at the Cliffs of Moher and in the town of Doolin. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 6 (Thursday)
Galway
Free day in Galway to enjoy its many offerings. Our group will meet for dinner back in Adare to recount our adventures of the day. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Day 7 (Friday)
the Burren and High Tea
A real treat in the foothills of the Burren is Hazel Mountain Chocolates, a quirky cafe with gluten-free cakes and pastries in a 1950s cottage fronting a state-of-the-art bean-to-bar stone-ground chocolate factory. Founded by Burren walking tour guide John Connolly and his wife Kasha. We will hike two hours with John in what is consider the prettiest part of Ireland. Then we will enjoy a 3-course lunch made by Kasha, and learn some of her chocolate-making secrets. After we will go to Ballyvaughan to look around and meet for high tea to conclude a luxurious day. (Breakfast, Lunch, High Tea)
Day 8 (Saturday)
Goodbye Ireland
Say goodbye to Adare and transfer to the airport.
Optional post-tour extension of Northern Ireland available
June 2–6, 2018
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