Adventures

Ireland - Day 10 - Torc Waterfall & the Killarney National Park

The first thing out our list today was a one-hour-horse riding trip through the Park with Killarney Stables. After that we had planned to hike up the Torc Waterfall today. During the ride we had great, beautiful weather, but as soon as we got to the parking lot at the bottom of the waterfall, it started raining. The path is actually very much like stairs, so we decided we could still give it a go.

We continued as planned. It first rained lightly, and then it started pouring down on us. While we slowly made our way up, sweating in our raincoats, the world seemed to end behind us.

It did get better pretty much as soon as we reached the highest part of the hike though, so we did have a bit of a panoramic view across the Killarney Lakes before we started to descend towards Torc Waterfall.

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Day 1

Sadly we didn't have the greatest weather for our first day in Eagle River, AK, and therefore couldn't do much outside. We visited Walmart instead. Three times. It is only a ten minute walk away from where we're staying, and alas, even though we're with real americans, we did walk there all three times.
We had some trouble making our credit cards work and were a little bit worried we might be in Alaska for three weeks, but without any money. In the end it turned out that we could get cash though, so everything is set for our trips to Tok and the Kenai peninsula this and the following week.

When the weather did finally clear up a bit we went to a viewpoint partly up Mt.Baldy and then back another way to take a little walk down a hidden path to an absolutely beautiful waterfall...

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