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Chapter 6 Part 2 - Hiking, a fascinating tour and countless hexagons

HardQore SteviKiwi | 10.06.2010 0 0

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The path leads us towards the cliffs with an impressive view of the Causeway below. We reached the Shepherd's steps which have approximately 160 steps, it was quiet cool. On the way down we made several stops and watched at the breathtaking panorama. After the stairs we followed the path straight on, looked around again and continued going down.
Finally on the Giant's Causeway we made a short stop and had a little lunch. While eating we had a good overview of the countless hexagon shaped stones, it was amazing! After the lunch we were going to discover the area and took thousands of photos.

The hexagon shaped stones of the Giant's Causeway
http://userblogs.fu-berlin.de.../basalt-columns.jpg

At this point I could get the statement from the Irish: "The Giant's Causeway is known as the 8th world miracle.", it was really marvelous and I begun to wonder how all these stones get their hexagonal shape. I remembered the old legend which the bus driver told us before:

"Hundreds of years ago there was a giant called Fionn who builds a bridge to walk to Scotland to fight another giant. But when he saw the Scottish giant he was afraid about his size and fled. The Scottish giant followed him. Fionn's wife laid a blanket on him in order to cover him from the Scottish giant by pretending that Fionn is her baby. Therefore the Scottish giant was afraid, because he imagined that the father of the baby must be very huge, thus he fled in panic and destroyed the bridge in case that Fionn wants to follow him."

(That's approximate all as far as I remember...)

In actual fact the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway are originated millions of years ago by volcanic activities, lava flow and some eruptions.

Some of the stone columns were approximately 8 metres high on one side (on the other side more columns like a hill), so it was a perfect chance for me to climb a bit... Regrettably the time was really barely and we had to rush with all our doings, although we had 2 hours for discover the Causeway.

Me climbing one of the basalt columns:
http://userblogs.fu-berlin.de...010/06/climbing.jpg

Back in the bus we bought some tickets for the rope bridge (4£ per each) and the bus started to move. Our next stop was only a few minutes away in the village Bushmills. There we visited the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery where we could buy and taste some whiskey. Around the distillery was a strange smell in the air, I can't describe it anymore, but it was kind of funny. ^^
For tasting the Bushmills' Whiskey normally you had to pay, but lucky as I am (haha) I got a voucher for free Whiskey tasting from the bus driver after a short small talk. We followed him to the bar where I, and even Riccardo without a voucher, drunk a glass of Bushmills' Whiskey. While this we talked to a trucker from New York who also took part on the trip to the Giant's Causeway.
After our little Whiskey session we staggered... uhm... walked back to the bus and drove to the last attraction: The rope bridge. On our way to the bridge we had another two short photo stops at an old castle ruin (the bus driver called it one of the most romantic places in Northern Ireland) and at a cliff near a very long and beautiful beach.


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