A “wild beauty”, as Oscar Wilde called the Connemara area, is located where Europe ends, on Ireland’s wild west coast. Kilometers-wide peat bogs, dark blue lakes and green valleys await us, which give rise to the feeling of an almost endless loneliness, which is only interrupted from time to time by a few peaceful creations and the characteristic Connemara ponies.
No question about it, the region at the western tip of Ireland is one of the special places in Ireland: On the one hand, it consists of lush heather and moor areas and, on the other hand, of the Twelve Bens, a mountain range with twelve peaks, some of which are more than 700 meters high protrude. The entire environment with all its details looks like an expensive painting in which we can lose ourselves for hours. So we make a photo stop at the old Gothic monastery Kylemore Abbey, which is incredibly idyllic right on Pollacapall Lough, which is surrounded by lush green, dense deciduous forests. And of course we don’t forget to include the famous pine island with the Twelf Bens in the background, reflected in Lake Derryclare Lough, a must-have in our travel photo portfolio.