Your adventure begins at the riding centre, where you are welcomed by Danny McKinley and the Bespoke Equestrian Ireland team. Before heading to the stables, you are invited into the loft café for tea, coffee, and homemade scones, followed by a special audio-visual presentation introducing the Game of Thrones filming locations you will visit over the next two days.
This presentation helps set the scene, matching real landscapes with the famous moments filmed there, and gives context to the places you are about to experience in person.
Afterwards, you head to the barn for a stable tour and to meet the horses. If you wish, you may even help with grooming and tacking up. Once matched with your horse and after a riding assessment, you begin with a ride into the North Antrim Hills, enjoying wide-open countryside and panoramic views as your first taste of the landscape.
Back at the stables, the adventure takes on a more theatrical mood as you are brought to the costume room to dress in Game of Thrones themed outfits, complete with swords and armor. Whether you imagine yourself as a noble lady, warrior, or lord of Westeros, this is one of the most memorable and photogenic parts of the trip.
Dressed in costume, you travel with the horses to The Dark Hedges, instantly recognizable to fans as the Kings Road, where Arya Stark escaped King’s Landing disguised as a boy. Here you can ride and pose beneath one of the show’s most iconic avenues of trees, creating unforgettable images in a setting that feels unmistakably part of Westeros.
Once the costume photography is complete, you continue to Ballintoy, one of the richest Game of Thrones locations in Northern Ireland. This single area was used for multiple scenes and represented several different parts of Westeros, including Pyke, Lordsport Harbour, Dragonstone, Saltpans, and the Stormlands.
The riding here is exceptional in its own right. You travel through open farmland and reach the dazzling sands of Whitepark Bay, one of the most beautiful beaches on the North Coast. This wide stretch of white sand is perfect for walking, trotting, cantering, and galloping, with the Atlantic beside you and dramatic cliffs all around. There is time to enjoy the beach fully, including the water and dunes, and if you are lucky, you may even spot the famous sunbathing cattle sometimes seen resting on the shore.
After the beach ride, stop for quality Irish food in Ballintoy, where you can rest and refuel before the afternoon’s filming locations. You then mount up again and head down toward Ballintoy Harbour, used as the Isle of Pyke, where Theon Greyjoy returned to the Iron Islands, met his sister Yara, and was baptized in the name of the Drowned God. The harbor was also used for scenes around Dragonstone, making it one of the most important filming stops of the tour.
From here, the route continues toward Larrybane Quarry, perched above the limestone cliffs of the Causeway Coast. This location served as Renly Baratheon’s camp, where Brienne defeated Ser Loras and earned her place in the Kingsguard. It is also tied to scenes featuring Renly, Catelyn Stark, Margaery, Littlefinger, and Davos. The views from here are magnificent, stretching across the coast toward Rathlin Island and the western coast of Scotland.
By evening, you arrive at your accommodation in County Antrim, carrying memories of one extraordinary day spent riding through the heart of Westeros.
Overnight: County Antrim
