Giant’s Causeway Centre

The first stop on a visit to the causeway is the Giant’s Causeway Centre, where the facts and legends about the causeway are well presented in an audio-visual theater. (Open all year, tel: 028 2073 1159, email: unavsm@smtp.ntrust.org.uk.) A minibus takes you to the head of the causeway, where you follow the path past formations called “Honeycomb,” “Wishing Well,” “Giant’s Granny,” “King and his Nobles,” “Port na Spaniagh” (where gold and silver treasure from the Spanish Armada ship, Girona, was found in 1967), and “Lovers’ Leap” and then up the wooden staircase to the headlands, where you walk back to the visitors’ center along the clifftops. (It’s a 5-kilometer walk and you can truly say you have seen the causeway, if you complete the circuit.)