Belfast - capital of Northern Ireland, shopping, zoo, leisure centres, museums, clubs, pubs
Inland Towns
Antrim - Lough Neagh boat trips, round tower, Antrim castle
Armoy village - round tower
Ballyclare - livestock market, leisure centre, May Fair
Ballymena - country shopping, Slemish mountain
Ballymoney - farming
Doagh - Parkgate holestone where couples pledge everlasting love by holding hands through the stone
Glengormley - cinema, ten pin bowling,
Lisburn - linen museum, Maze racecource (also called the Down Royal), tours of the Hilden Brewery.
Randalstown - Shanes castle and deer park
Templepatrick - Patterson's Spade Mill
Coastal Towns and Villages
Ballintoy - rope bridge, White Park Bay
Ballycastle - beach, August fair
Carrickfergus - castle
Cushendun - quaint cottages
Cushendall - Antrim Glens
Larne - ferry port
Portrush - amusements, beach
Beaches
Ballycastle - scenic, sand and pebbles, clean ****
Portrush - popular and sandy, backed by amusements ****
White Park Bay secluded, scenic, sandy, clean *****
Geography
The county rests on an irregular plateau of hills and uplands.
In the north and east stark headlands, with green glens running between them, drop sharply to the sea.
Volcanic activity has left a rugged chalk and basalt coastline, with the Giant's Causeway its strangest feature.
The river Lagan runs to the mouth of Belfast Lough in the south, and the river Bann in the west drains Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, and separates County Antrim from County Derry along much of its course.
