New treetop walk outside Dublin becomes major Irish tourist landmark

Ireland's new treetop walk takes visitors over a forest park by the Wicklow mountains and is fast becoming a major tourist landmark for Dublin visitors. – Photo: Coman Hamilton/dpa

About an hour's journey from the bustling pubs and crowded streets of Dublin city centre, there's a tranquil new wooden path leading visitors high up over a lush forest canopy at the foot of Ireland's Wicklow mountain range.

Emerging as a major new tourist landmark for Dublin visitors alongside the Guinness brewery and Jameson distillery, the so-called treetop walk is expected to entice more tourists towards the mountains that can be seen from the centre of the capital.