The Dingle Peninsula is a piece of absolute beauty in a country that has no shortage of beautiful spots. The peninsula is a combination of rough sea eroded cliffs, mountains, beaches and Islands which are all inter woven with traditionally small Irish villages. You could easily pass a day driving around the Dingle Peninsula absorbing everything you see. If you are visiting Ireland, the trip to Dingle is well worth it.

This is one of the few natural Irish speaking areas left in Ireland (Gealteacht), and many Irish school children come here during the summer to learn their national language in preparation for their state exams. For the children, this is as much an educational trip as a social exercise.

Among the most beautiful things about the Dingle Peninsula are the Blasket Islands, which in the authors view, hold a certain mystic of an Ireland past. While these Islands were inhabited until the 1950s, they are now a tourist attraction and a place of absolute beauty and worthy of an article in their own right. As the sun sets of the west coast of Ireland, the Blasket Islands are a truly unique sight.

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