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3 Aug 2023

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Can you recommend any quieter and less popular places for walking holidays?

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Yvonne Gordon
Answered by: Yvonne Gordon

The Slieve Bloom Mountains in Co Laois and Offaly – there are 16 different looped walks and you can do the three-day 70 km Slieve Bloom Way, with quiet walking tracks and paths, and great views from the mountain tops. Alternatively the canal towpaths in the midlands are also a nice, flat option.


Yvonne Gordon

Yvonne Gordon

Yvonne Gordon is an award-winning adventure travel writer based in Ireland. She writes for The Sunday Times, the Irish Independent, National Geographic, the BBC Travel, the Washington Post, among many others.

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Yvonne Gordon
Yvonne Gordon

Ireland has a well-developed walking industry and is geared up for self-guided inn-to-inn multi-day walking holidays, where your luggage will follow via a daily baggage transfer service. On some of the more popular walking routes it’s easy to organise your own baggage transfer, alternatively book a self-guided holiday with one of the country’s many operators.
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