If you are looking for a bracing and invigorating walk while taking in some clean sea air, look no further than the cliff walk from Bray to Greystones. Begin your journey on Bray Promenade and enjoy the seaside town atmosphere before you move on to the stunning cliff walk where you'll find a huge variety of wildlife and breathtaking scenery.
The coastal walk is 8km in length (5 miles) of cliff-top paths, which snake their way south from the end of Bray esplanade. Next to this is the challenging Bray Head climb, which will take you about an hour to the summit and back. This walk offers spectacular views of the Wicklow Mountains and, if you're lucky, all the way to Wales on a clear day.
These dramatic walks are accessible by a regular DART and bus service from Dublin city centre into the large town of Bray or the charming and bustling town of Greystones.
-quoted from http://www.visitwicklow.ie/attractions/bray_cliff_walk.htm-
1 comments:
nice blog. Just thought I'd mention that the cliff walk is officially closed, because of a rock fall recently. It is possible, with a lot of effort and scrambling through brambles, to get around the falen rocks, but, there is another cliff walk, further up, that is well worth doing.
The (lower) cliff walk you have outlined in your article is one of my favourite walks in wicklow, but, because of the rock fall I decided to take the (upper) cliff walk today and I forgot how amazing the views are from up there.
Brief directions for the (upper) cliff walk would be to walk up to the cross on top of Bray head and follow the track behind the cross, until you come to the pointed rock mound (where walkers have placed a rock on what has become very large pile over the years). Leave the track, descend down (it's a little steep at this point) to the very narrow dirt track that runs beside the rock mound and follow it until you come to a larger path that runs at right angles to the sea. Turn left and descend down the path towards the sea until you come to a gate...once over the gate, you're on the (lower) cliff walk and you can follow the directions given above.
It's a tougher walk than the (lower) cliff walk, but, the views are incredible. Not suitable for children. The track isn't walled off like the lower cliff walk and there are some unprtotected steep drops on the sea side that wouldn't suit children running about.
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