Scottish Highlands and Islands Adventure Tour: 6 Days

The Highlands and Islands Adventure Itinerary

This tour is available from Glasgow and Edinburgh

Day 1 – Highlights include:

• The magnificent Stirling Castle and the Wallace Monument
• The beautiful Trossachs (Scotland’s Lakeland)
• A visit to Rob Roy’s Grave
• The pretty village of Killin
• The fishing port of Oban where you will spend the next two nights. Oban has a great selection of speciality shops, seafood restaurants and bars. .

Day 2 – Highlights will include:

• The beautiful Isle of Mull 
• The Isle of Iona with its stunning Abbey, a place of pilgrimage for over 1400 years.
• A boat trip to the small island of Staffa to view Fingal’s Cave and nesting Puffin’s can be included to the day.
• We will return to Oban again in the evening.

Day 3 – From Oban your journey continues and highlights include

• The iconic Castle Stalker
• The spectacular mountains of Glencoe
• Fort William,
• The magnificent Glenfinnan Viaduct, (photo stop), perhaps spotting the Jacobite Steam train (The Harry Potter Train) as it travels to Mallaig…..
• From there we will follow the ‘Road to the Isles’ 
• The beaches at Morar and Arisaig with their unrivalled views of The Small Isles of Muck, Eigg, Rum and Canna.
• At Mallaig we will catch the short ferry ‘Over the sea to Skye’.

Arriving on the island the first stop is Talisker Distillery for a tour and a wee dram. (Alternatively, you can visit the Fairy Pools at Glen Brittle) before heading to the island capital with its attractive harbour, your base for the next two nights.

Day 4 – Skye highlights will include

• The imposing Cuillin Mountain Range – visible from most parts of the island
• The spectacular Trotternish Peninsula with wonderful views of dramatic pinnacles the ‘Old Man of Storr’, Kilt Rock and The Quirang,
• The Museum of Highland Life
• Flora MacDonald’s Monument
• The mysterious Fairy Glen
• The impressiveDunvegan Castle
• The2,000 yr old Dun Beag Broch

Day 5 – We leave the island by way of the Skye Bridge. Todays highlights include

• The iconic Eilean Donan Castle with plenty of time for photo opportunities, and a tour,
• Travel through the beautiful Glenshiel Mountains
• The enchanting Loch Ness with its famous resident ‘Nessie’
• Inverness where you will spend the evening. There are a good selection of restaurants in the city but they can get busy and booking is essential. Your guide will be able to assist you.

Day 6 – Heading back south, highlights will include

• Visit to the Culloden Battlefield where you can explore its fascinating story
• Clava Cairns, a 3,500-year-old burial site.
• We then head through the Cairngorm Mountain Range and into Perthshire,
• We stop at the pretty Victorian town of Pitlochry
• The Hermitage waterfall
• Dunkeld Cathedral,  before making our way back to your accommodation, where we sadly say our farewells.