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Sperrin Mountains
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Discover An Doras Bui: Northern Ireland’s Hidden Gem
The most beautiful place you’ve never heard of: An Doras Bui, a shepherd’s hut in the Sperrin Mountains of Northern Ireland. More and more people are exploring the gifts of N Ireland, but it seems like it’s Belfast, the Giant Steps, Jameson, the usual suspects…they are missing out on one of the great natural beauties…
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Magpie’s song and the roar of the Twincam race.
The An Duras Bui, the shepherd’s hut, was deep in the countryside of the Sperrin Mountains. The roads were more like narrow car paths, so tight the bushes whipped your windows as you passed. How anyone could take the challenge of these tiny lanes with a roaring engine was astonishing. How was I to know…
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Visiting N. Ireland and you missed the Shepherd’s Hut of the Sperrin Mtns?
Justine says it best: “At the Shepherds Hut, you just feel like you’re part of nature. There’s almost a mystical feeling about it to me. And that’s what’s so hard to convey in social media, is that it’s not just the views. It’s not just the hot tub. There’s an actual mystical beauty to it…
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Now why would Nat’l Geographic call the Sperrin’s one of the most beautiful mountain ranges on Earth?
When you see a place so stunning, yet simple in its beauty, you never forget it. So, Instead of me writing about the Sperrin Mountains of Northern Ireland, U.K., let me show you what I saw. National Geographic, as always, was so damned right.
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Stories of being lost and found. Michael, my savior in the wilds of of the Sperrin Mountains, N. Ireland.
The magnificent Sperrin Mountains of Northern Ireland and getting lost, then delightfully found.
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A glorious pastoral hideaway: An Doras Bui shepherds’ hut in the Sperrin Mountains
Walking the lane near An Doras Bui can be beautiful — and with the tight curves and no dies, a bit…challenging.
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