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A journey through Northern Ireland

Belfast is a city reborn, where old merges with new, a booming retail center with a rich and historic Victorian streetscape

The scenic Ards Peninsula offers tranquility, rural landscapes and pretty seaside towns and villages

Fermanagh offers stunning lakeland scenery and an abundance of castles. The twin lakes of Lough Erne cover one-third of Fermanagh

About an hour’s drive from Fermanagh is the Ulster-American Folk Park, where you can appreciate a living history experience

Few places can boast a greater sweep of history and culture than ancient Derry, one of the few completely walled cities still standing in Europe

Derry is a stone’s throw from picturesque County Donegal. The northernmost county in Ireland, Donegal is bounded by 120 miles of Atlantic coastline and the most beautiful golden beaches in Ireland

Finally make your way through scenic Antrim, where you can visit the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, which goes across to tiny Carrick Island. Some 250,000 tourists cross the bridge each year which is taken down each winter and stored from about October/November to March

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corkkerry | Sep 26, 2010, 06:28 PM EDT

I love visiting Northern Ireland. Cousins, friends, and so much history...

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belfastgirl1 | Sep 20, 2010, 04:54 PM EDT

I now live in Canada and can truly say how very proud I am to have been born and raised in Northern Ireland.Truly one of the most beautiful places on earth. I try to get home every couple of years. Thanks for the photos. Beautiful.

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rjbeattie | Sep 20, 2010, 10:29 AM EDT

I recently spent a week in Belfast escorting my daughter for her start at a Master's program at Queen's University. I found Belfast to be very safe, friendly, and deversified in old and new architure. People seemed to go out of their way to be helpful. I look forward to more trips there to further explore the area. I took over one hundred photos and wish I could have spent more time roaming and shooting. My daughter and I must have walked 50 miles around Belfast trying different restaurants and pubs and never found a bad one. I highly recommend a trip there.

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loveapint | Sep 20, 2010, 09:53 AM EDT

Looks like the next trip for me

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1661996usmc | Sep 20, 2010, 09:28 AM EDT

My trip covered southwest Ireland. I must go back again.

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