A Little Bit About Me...

Name:  Siti Syafiqah Binti Abd Hamid
Matrix No:  A10A185
Faculty, University: Health Entrepreneurship, University Malaysia Kelantan.
Place of Birth: Perak
Date of Birth: 1 March 1990
Area of Study: Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
Ambition: Successful Entrepreneur
Evaluation of this assignment: 
To me, this assignment is interesting and exciting in completing the task. I am enjoying of doing this task because of I really love traveling. I wish that one fine day I would be travel around the world visiting interesting, unique, nice places around the world, gaining more experiences and knowledge in others countries that differ from my country. I love to explore new things and challenging in my life. By doing this kind of assignment my knowledge and information about tourism and interesting places increases and its trigger me to go there one day. Besides, by doing blogging assignment like this, have open my eyes and mind to explore and use the technology. By blogging I enjoy to share with others the information that I get, get their feedback and share their experience and knowledge too. Blogging is the one alternative and platform to bring us go abroad and widely.

The Ring of Kerry

The ring of Kerry refers to a tourist trail spanning over 170 km that takes in some of the best southwest Ireland. The circular road passes through the unparalleled beauty of places like Muckross House, Torc Waterfll, Moll’s Gap and the Ogham Stones and represents the perfect day trip when the sun comes out. Beginning in the town of Killarney, the Ring of Kerry comprises three roads, the N70, the Ring of Kerry is  hugely popular road route through the southwest of Ireland encompasses some of Ireland’s best scenery the N71 and the R562 that together form circuitous route through the Iveragh Peninsula.

Although it can be ‘done’ in a day by car or bus, or three days by bicycle, the more time you take, the more you’ll enjoy it. Tour buses travel the Ring in an anticlockwise direction. Getting stuck behind one is tedious, but driving in the opposite direction and meeting one on a blind corner is hair-raising. A good place to escape both scenarios is the tip of the peninsula, where the sleepy Skellig Ring is too narrow for coaches. There’s also little traffic on the Ballaghbeama Gap, which cuts across the peninsula’s central highlands with some spectacular views: it’s perfect for a long cycle, as is the longer Ballaghisheen Pass to Waterville. The 214km Kerry Way starts and ends in  Killarney

 retrieved from:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ireland/county-kerry/ring-of-kerr

National Botanical Gardens

 

 National Botanic Gardens on the banks of the Tolka River near the Glasnevin cemetery established in 1795 by the Royal Dublin Society, Restoration work over the past few decades has enhanced the natural beauty of the gardens and made them a premier national attraction. The gardens display a total of over 20,000 varieties of plants and include a vegetable garden and a rose garden. Particularly striking are the 400 ft long greenhouses, known as the Curvilinear Range and created by Dublin ironmaster Richard Turner between 1840 and 1869. The Great Palm House features a huge doe and contains orchids, tropical water plants, palm trees and succulents. 

Victoria house was built in 854 specifically for the giant Amazon Water Lily, wondrous new specie at that time. The original garden were planned Dr. Walter Wade, The first director, and modified over the years by his many successors. The gardens became a centre for Irish horticulture, developing new varieties of plants and distributing them to gardeners. Other achievements include cultivating orchids from seed to flower for the first time. Some of the most popular exhibits include the Australian Tree Fren brought here from Trinity College in 1969 that is rumored to be 400 years old, The Last Rose of Summer grown from a cutting taken from Jenkinstown House, Co. Kilkenny. 

 The traditional tale says that it is the rose that insipired the fomous bllad written by Thomas Moore, the double line of yew trees known as Addison’s Wlk, surviving from the early days of the gardens and planted in memory of the stateman and writer Joseph Addison. Aside from the greenhouses, and the grounds include an  arboretum of various specimen trees, annual displays and herbaceous borders, a pond and  a barren area that creates the beauty of the plants  the northwestern Country Clare. Visitor conveniences are available in the form of a restaurant and audiovisual theater.

retrieved from:

http://chooseireland.com/dublin/national-botanic-gardens/

http://www.worldirish.com/story/18269-the-10-best-places-to-visit-in-ireland