Sunday 1 August 2010

Enniskillen

We left claremorris and headed the extra long way round to enniskillen to see if we could make it to see slieve league. We headed up to Sligo where there is a huge tableland called benbulben. We saw the bottom of it. The rest of it was covered in fog. We were starting to think we were going to miss all of the speccy views because of fog but kept going anyway. We drove through donegal and finally saw what we had imagined as the rolling green hills of Ireland. We stopped at some lookouts where you were supposed do be able to see slieve league from across the water of donegal bay but all you could see was fog. But we kept going anyway. We got onto the coast heading towards slieve league and went down a little peninsula called St johns point and saw some nice coastal views but the cliffs of slieve league were foggy. But we kept going. Slieve league is sheer mountainside cliffs going into the water. They're not vertical but pretty steep and about 600 meters high. The road going up was really steep and windy. We got to the top car park and could actually see the cliffs. There was cloud up the very top so couldn't see them in all their glory but we got a pretty decent view. It has to be the most breathtaking view I have ever seen. You could walk higher up the mountain past the viewing area and higher than where they had built the protective fences. It was a fun climb up into the fog and higher views. The fog came down really fast so we walked back to the viewing area and the view was completely gone. If we'd been 15 minutes later we would have completely missed it.
We then doubled back to donegal and headed to enniskillen which is in northern Ireland. It was a long day but really worth it. Enniskillen is quite a big town but in a really beautiful green area. A nice place to be.

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