Sligo - Derry - Giants Causeway- Belfast

We left Sligo at 9am today to travel to Derry. It poured rain most of the way.

Derry is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland.

A quick walk around and some morning tea and back on the road to The Giants Causeway. The rain had gone by the time we arrived there and the sun was out.

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption.

It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986.

The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although some have four, five, seven, or eight sides.[7] The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.

This was amazing to see.

After a couple of hours we left Giants Causeway and headed for our hotel in Belfast where will again have dinner with our travelling group.

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