8Day Eco Adventure Tour

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Ireland Eco Tours were recently longlisted in the low carbon transport category of the annual responsibletravel.com awards. check out

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Ireland Eco Tours was featured on the Holiday at home special on UTV Life on the 12th of August. Check link to UTV website for info:


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Tuesday the 29th of July on a beautiful sunny day in the Fermanagh countryside Ireland Eco Tours had the pleasure of taking Palmela Balentine from UTV on a Mountain Bike Ride in the Lough Navar Forest. Pamela and the cameraman where there to interview Jerome O'Loughlin about his business venture. Below are pictures of Jerome and Pamela with the Eco Bus.

Ireland Eco Tours now featured on Discovernorthernireland.com.
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The Eco Adventure Tour Specialists

Join us to explore the hidden corners of the Island of Ireland. We will show you all the sites and sounds, share our history, hike, bike, surf, have some laughs, a bit of Craic and all from the comfort of our veggie oil-powered bus... yes, you read correct veggie oil; because this is just one of the ways that Ireland Eco Tours plan to keep the Emerald Isle green. All our tours operate a Leave No Trace policy.

8 Day; North & West Ireland Eco Adventure £789
The Tour will take you to the best that the North West has to offer, with her unspoilt beauty and riveting history. You will hear stories about the local legends, see world famous sites like the
Giant’s Causeway and you will get the history of the recent conflict from a guide who grew up when it was very much a reality. We will walk through rolling green hills and cycle the back roads. This 8 day epic will take us down the stunning Atlantic west coast as far as the amazing Connemara and Galway city, and not forgetting we will make it out to the cliffs of Moher through the unusual landscape of the
Burren.

5 Day; The Top Half Tour £555
The Top Half Tour will take you to the best that Northern Ireland has to offer, with her unspoilt beauty and riveting history. You will hear stories about the local legends, see world famous sites like the Giant’s Causeway, you will get the history of the recent conflict from a guide who grew up when it was very much a reality. We will walk through rolling green hills and cycle the back roads.

3Day; The Wee Top Half Tour £349
The Wee Top Half Tour is a good taste of what Northern Ireland and its undiscovered landscape has to offer. You will see some of her most famous sites like Belfast, the Titanic City, the Giant’s Causeway
and learn of her troubled past and how things have changed for the better in the past 10 years.
We will also spend time in the unspoilt beauty of the countryside walking, biking and hearing stories of the legends from this hidden corner of Europe.

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Contact Details

Website: www.irelandecotours.com
Email: info@irelandecotours.com
Tel: (028) 6865 9171
Mob: 353 (0) 872 857 427

Ireland Eco Tours now featured on Tripadvisor.ie. Follow link below to view:

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Ireland Eco Tours featured on Irelandadventures.com

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Powered by Veggie Oil and a healthy sense of adventure wanderlust, Ireland Eco Tour is a tour company that explores the hidden corners of Ireland. Through one, three and seven day excursions, Ireland Eco Tours allows guests to fully experience Ireland’s great outdoors and appreciate its culture and history.

The best way to experience Ireland is outside among the elements. And no better way than aboard an Ireland Eco Tour. Through one, three and seven day tours Ireland Eco Tours immerses guests into Ireland’s Great Outdoors, with the goal of having fun but doing so in a responsible and enlightened fashion. Each of the tours has an ecologically sustainable component, and is grounded by the Leave No Trace principles of outdoor recreation. Guests to Ireland Eco Tours travel in their comfortable, biodiesel bus, the first of its kind to be touted by an Irish tour company.

Ireland Eco Tours is founded on a strong appreciation for Ireland and its natural environment. Ireland Eco Tours is based in the Northwest of Ireland and its tours concentrate on the abundant ecology and heritage of this unspoilt region, particularly in Fermanagh, Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo.

Outdoor adventures are the mainstay of any Ireland Eco Tours, walking, cycling, kayaking, and exploring the outdoors. Ireland Eco Tour guides are trained and certified outdoor leaders, as well as Failte Ireland approved Guides, who come armed with great passion for Ireland and the Outdoors, as well as knowledge and insights into Ireland’s culture, history, and ecology.

Ireland Eco Tours has a strong conservation ethic underlying all its operations. Travel responsibly, play hard, learn, enjoy and be inspired. But do so in a manner that conserves the environment and contributes to the the well-being of the community.

Ireland Eco Tours has launched a 1day tour of Fermanagh.

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ONE DAY GUIDED TOUR

OF THE FERMANAGH LAKELANDS

Show Casing: The Marble Arch Caves, Lough Navar Scenic View Point,

Correl Glen Nature Reserve and much much more

Pick up every Friday & Saturday at 9.00am from the Tourist Information Centre or 9.15am from the Clinton Centre Youth Hostel Enniskillen

For more information or to make a booking contact Jerome on

028 686 59171 or 00353 (0) 87 2857 427

info@irelandecotours.com

£20 Per Person, Concession Available

Pre booking is essential

DOES NOT INCLUDE LUNCH OR ENTRY FEES

Ireland Eco Tours featured in new book.

ecoescape: Ireland is a new handbook to green travel in Ireland. Written by Irish travel writer, Catherine Mack, this new guide follows the recent successful launch of ecoescape: UK. In this groundbreaking book, Catherine gives a personal insight into her top 50 ecoescapes around the country which she has visited over the last six months. Full of practical details, including a Slow Travel Toolkit, ecoescape: Ireland helps travellers find ways to responsible escapism closer to home, and provides international visitors greener options for their travels around Ireland, both North and South.
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So it was Bio-diversity day yesterday sunday the 25th of May 2008. I was at the organic Centre in Rossinver Co. Leitrim with my bus to take a group of walkers up to Dough Mountain to an area of protected Blanket bog. We had a National Parks Ranger guiding us. It was a beautiful day and it was nice to be out walking and soaking up the fantastic scenery.

Some new pictures I took of my Veggie-oil powered bus and trailer during the good weather we have been having in Fermanagh/Donegal recently.

So the weather is amazing right now and the more time I can spent outside the better!! So bank holiday monday and I took 2 friends of mine peter and sarah over to the amazing slieve league cliffs in Co. Donegal. These cliffs depending on who you talk to are either the highest or second highest sea cliffs in Europe!! But in any case at their highest point they sweep 600metres down into the wild Atlantic Ocean below. We drove through the fishing town of Killybegs on the way and got to the cliffs for 2 o'clock. We started our walk at a nice and easy pace stopping a lot along the way as the visability was just unbelievable, I had never seen it as good. Well both peter who is from Co. Tyrone and his partner sarah who is from New York had never been to slieve league before, well what a day to be introduced. We had a lovely relaxing time soaking up both the rays and the scenery. And this of course is one of the most scenic day tours I offer through Ireland Eco Tours.

Well the weather was great and the sun shone on us this weekend at the Fermanagh Environmental Festival, held in the grounds of the Lakeland form in Enniskillen. There was lots going on and displays from the RSPB and the EHS amoungst others. I had the green bus parked outside for everyone to see. But the highlight for me was getting my photo taken with Alaska the Bald eagle from Eagles Flying at the Irish raptor research centre in ballymote in Co.Sligo.

Its amazing what you find when your out on the old interweb, I discovered Ireland Eco Tours mentioned on these three websites by chance when out surfing. Check out what they had to say below:

http://www.worldtravelguide.net/feature/56/index/Ecotourism-in-Ireland.html

http://www.topiccraze.com/topic?topic=ecotouring

http://www.hippyshopper.com/2007/10/ecotourism_holi.html

Well I have finally got round to getting my membership with STI (Sustainable Travel International) sorted out. It has been on my to do list for a while now. Within the past few months I had the opportunity to meet and work with Mr Peter Krahenbuhl the Co.Founder and Vice President of STI. Peter has helped Ireland Eco Tours with product development and I must say it was a great advantage to have his expertise at hand. I will now have a listing on STI Eco Directory amongst other benefits. For more info then go to www.sustainabletravelinternational.org

Myself and pete where out on the bikes today as it was a beautiful afternoon in the Donegal/Fermanagh region. Its great to see some sun.....finally and we must take advantage of it when its here!! Well the bike ride was going good until we came across the mess you can see in the pictures. Fly-tipping as it is known in this country, whereby members of the general public take it upon themselves to take lots of their rubbish into our forests and scenic areas and dump it, and as if that wasn't bad enough they also burn it releasing harmful gases into the environment!!! We still have such a long way to go on the Island of Ireland to get people to follow the "Leave No Trace" ethos!! Well we tried not to let this act of environmental vandalism spoil our day on the bikes and as you can see from the other photos we seen some beautiful unspoiled scenery as well.

I had the lads from Co.Down or was it Co.Tyrone or maybe Co.Armagh!! Out for an afternoon of mountain biking. We went for a spin on saturday afternoon and thankfully Fermanagh and Donegal did me proud because the weather was fantastic for our 15mile ride. The lads all done well, especially since there were quite a few hills involved and some of them hadnt been on a bike in over 2 years!! But of course about 3/4 the way through it was time for refreshment so we stopped at the Travellers Rest (approprately named) Cashelard, and the lads got the Guinness in, I stuck with the water!! After the rest we hit the road again for a scenic ride up past Lough Unshin and then round past Breesy Hill and the final leg of our spin was all downhill everyone was glad to hear. We got back to Belleek and the town was shrouded in sun. We got the bikes and ourselves on the big green bus and I left the lads back up to Ederney and to the Glendarragh Valley Inn where they were spending the nite. A successful day tour by all accounts.

Here is a picture of the group I had for a Leave No Trace awareness session last week. we started with presentation and open discussion in the Organic centre in Rossinver Co.Leitrim, and then we hoped on the big green Bio-bus and drove to a beautiful little walk along the Glenaniff river to fowley's falls where we talked more about the 7 principles of leave no trace. It was a grand day and i think we all learned something new.

Just got my new website up and running and now have my lovely new blog aswell!!

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