I highly recommend this tour company and give it five stars. If you're looking to see the natural beauty, take some great pictures, and have a fabulous time then this tour is for you. I took the Celtic tour and had the most awesome experience. I'm not normally fond of organized tours since some of them don't give you a lot of freedom to explore the sites. However, Over the Top Tours was very good, and I'm glad I did it.
Our tour guide, Paul was a very funny Irish man who believed in ghosts and nature spirits. He seemed to have the gift of gab and told us many interesting tales, legends, superstitions, and folklore.
He played U2 and other Irish music while he drove us around the ancient and mystical monuments.
Ireland is filled with them, and I visited a few surviving structures from the Stone Age and medieval times. One of the most recognizable megalithic structures is grass-covered mounds, which are 4000 to 5000 years old. Our first stop was the Valley of the Kings where the Fourknocks tomb is located. It's a green covered mound that looks like a hobbit home with a short passage leading into a chamber with three smaller offset chambers with stone carvings. There are three grass-covered mounds in this location, and only one is open to the public. Paul said the two represented the underworld and the present world, and the only one that was opened was four knocks, which represents the next world. Legends say that if you go to the mound and walk around clockwise, you could get a free pass to the next world. (So I did. hehe) He said it might not necessarily be heaven, but it could be the next dimension. Inside the passage, tombs are decorated with megalithic art such as concentric circles, spirals, zigzags, pyramids, and images. They have been interpreted as the moon, the, sun and the human face. Paul said that the Celts believed in reincarnation and the spirals symbolize the cycle of life. Most of their myths and legends deal with this journeying and movement through the experiences of life, death, and rebirth in the ever-changing directional flow of the spiral. The tour lasts a full day, so be prepared to do a lot of walking and exploring. I learned so much from this tour and will do it again. (Checkout my pictures) read more