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708 Favorite Tours in Ireland; Celtic Middle Earth; Ireland’s South Coast

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The Buren in Galway, Ireland

The Buren is a limestone terrain that absorbs the heat. It's unusual for botanists because they can find plants that normally grow in the Mediterranean growing right next door to plants that normallygrow in the Arctic. From the Buren there in your Galway, you could take a boat ride out to the Aaron Islands. That's the most desolate, our most untouched, most distant corner of Ireland in so many ways.

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