Giant s causeway day trip from dublin

Visit Belfast’s Titanic Visitor Experience and the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Giant’s Causeway on a full-day trip from Dublin! Open since April 2012 (the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking), the official Titanic exhibition allows you to re-live the tragic yet captivating story through interactive discovery zones and galleries. After a guided tour, travel along the spectacular Antrim Coastal Drive to the Giant’s Causeway, where you’ll have time at leisure to explore its dramatic cliffs and rock formations.

Leave Dublin in the early morning and head north out of the city by luxury coach. After roughly two hours you’ll arrive in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland and home to the Titanic Visitor Experience – your first stop of the day. Living up to the hype that surrounded its opening in early 2012, this must-see center allows you to re-live the intriguing Titanic story on the very site where the ship was built.

As you walk through the exhibition’s galleries with your expert guide, learn about the ship’s creation, her fateful voyage and final resting place on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean. Explore the center’s interactive discovery zones, and encounter special effects, dark rides and full-scale reconstructions as you learn everything there is to know about the Titanic.

Your guided tour around the exhibition also includes a visit to the on-site Ocean Exploration Centre, where you’ll discover the sophisticated technologies that track the behavior of oceans and seabeds today.

After a break to take lunch at the center (own expense), leave the city lights of Belfast behind and hit the road to the Northern Irish coast. Following a route known as the Antrim Coastal Drive, pass spectacular scenery including rocky shores, wooded glens and quaint harbors.

After traveling for roughly two hours, arrive at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Giant’s Causeway, where you’ll have more than two hours to explore at leisure. Created more than 60 million years ago after a series of volcanic eruptions, the causeway is famous for its distinctive rock formations that span nearly 18 miles (29 km) of dramatic coastline.

After exploring this incredible site, meet your guide and carry on to explore the dramatic Dunluce Caste. The castle, which dates back to the 17th century, is surrounded by extremely steep drops on either side at the coach for the journey back. Take a brief stop in the pretty town of Castlebelingham to stretch your legs, before arriving in Dublin in the evening.