2min chapter

Travel with Rick Steves cover image

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

Travel with Rick Steves

CHAPTER

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.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode