We bought a dublin pass and travelled around Dublin last weekend. It's cheaper as compared with if you pay entry fee for every single place that you wanna visit.
We hopped on a bus and headed to Dublin Zoo after grabbing our travel pass =)
Overall, it's not so exciting. S'pore Zoo is much much better. Probably the most impressive animal in Dublin Zoo is that I got to see Gorilla. The way the big apes walk are exactly as those depicted in the King Kong movies. Most of the visitors are family. While we were strolling around, we overheard a kid asking his parents, "Why do the tigers have so many scars on their bodies?" Hehe...
One thing that puzzled me while visiting the zoo is, most of the cafes and kiosks were closed! Well, know why, Caucasian know how to enjoy life, better quality of life and they dont wanna work on weekend, I guess.
The only kiosk that opened was a coffee house which looks pretty rundown.When I entered, only then I realised it is Starbucks! Starbucks look like this! What are Starbucks' marketing people doing? I thought outlook branding is fundamental for such an established company.
Interestingly, I came across this little buddha sitting on the shelf in the souvenir shop. Huhhh????? Every single item that is being sold in the shop...erm... are the likes of monkey! Giraffe! Lion! All animals!!! Why would a person want to buy a buddha in a Zoo as a souvenir? I guess the little buddha himself also doesnt understand why is he there. Sitting side by side with the monkeys and vases. I guess he must be shouting "WTF!"
The zoo is really mediocre. After wasting hours there, we paid a pilgrimage to both the famous cathedrals in the city, Christ Church Cathedral and Saint Patrick Cathedral.
What surprised me is that there is Crypt, an underground chamber beneath Christ Church which dated to 11th century. 
It's during this trip that I came to know prominent clergies are actually buried inside churches.
The interior of both the cathedrals looks pretty similar. I can't really identify them from inside, can you?
Our next destination is Guinness Storehouse. It's a musuem showing how does the black stuff produced.
The only information that I am able to gather is that the ingredients of producing a pint of Guinness are barley, hop, yeast, and water. Don't ask about the process, I have zero clue of all of the other stuffs inside. I'm just too lazy to read =)
After "understanding" and touring the Guinness musuem, the best part is we are entitled to a free pint of Guinness at the Gravity Bar, situated at the top of the building overlooking entire Dublin city.
Lots of people. Crowded. No place to sit. Noisy. Irish here drinks beer in the morning, during lunch, dinner and whatever occasion that they have. They are just "alcoholics!"
We wanted to go Bram Stoker Dracula Experience after dinner, but it was getting dark and we were pretty tired after a full day of touring. Eventually we decided to call it a day. Dracula, I will meet you next time!
All right. That's about it for our Dublin 1 day tour.
Tomorrow we are going to tour Wicklow, Southeast of Ireland. Hurray!
