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At 9 years of
age, I desperately want to avoid going with my
family to a travel film on Ireland. To my mind,
the only good sounding thing mentioned about this
Ireland film, was seeing the Ring of Kerry.
At
that time, Johnny Cash had a song on the
radio "I fell in to blazing ring of
fire!” In my youthful imagination, I
could only envision "The Ring of
Kerry" as a volcanic hell; that
sounded neat. Needless to say; the film
wasn't what I thought it would be, just
much longer than I thought it would be.
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The Ring of Kerry describes the picturesque, approximately 110 mile long, drive around the peninsula of Iveragh. The loop can be driven in a day but plan on the 110 miles taking much longer than you think it will, particularly if you make frequent stops to enjoy the views.
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For the record:
as we lacked the time, we didn't drive
the complete 'Ring of Kerry'. We by
passed the coast and drove the section of
the Ring from Killorglin to Kenmare. The
photo to the left, I am fairly certain,
was taken around the area of Moll's Gap.
The most fantastic parts of this
landscape provide no place to stop the
car and take photos.
The small section of the Ring of Kerry
we toured had a marvelous diversity of
landscape in a relatively short distance.
Over a 20-mile drive, we went from
rolling hills, to rolling forest, to tree
line mountains, to a mountainous region
with sparse vegetation.
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