Day Hike in Glendalough

After a full week of relaxing, catching up on sleep, and working on an epic amount of homework, we took a day hike trip to Glendalough, located in the middle of the Wicklow Mountains. This place was absolutely gorgeous, and I was really glad that we waited until the warmer months to visit. 

We began our day with a pretty intense uphill hike to the top of a mountain. Luckily it was a nice trail, with steps and whatnot, but still gave me quite a big workout. Getting to the top was really rewarding, especially with the views. haha Definitely wished Ive been working out over here, this day was quite the slap in the face.

We hiked back down to a lake in Glendalough, and spent a while just relaxing and cooling down by the water. Attempted to skip some stones, but ended up looking like an idiot, so watched Pat and Don do it instead.

Glendalough is also very well known for having a quite impressive monastic village. All that remains of the village is some headstones, I particularly like the celtic cross ones, they are literally everywhere in Irish cemeteries. After the village, we all had a picnic lunch provided by our program (we love free food) and went back to another lake to sit by the water, skip some stones, and just enjoy the rare rare rare sunny Irish weather.

Haha our ride back in our coach bus may have been one of the scariest in my life. Our bus broke down in the middle of the mountains, and at times, rolled backwards (eeeeek). So adding about two hours onto our way home, we got back alright.