Welcome to SCOTLAND: we can say that paradise !. This wonderful country has been rated in 2017 by reference publications in the world of Tourism and Leisure Travel as the most beautiful country in the world.
On this impressive 5 day Tour / Vacation we are going to take you to experience and taste almost three quarters of the impressive Scotland or Alba in their Original Celtic language Scottish Gaelic. From the East Coast, the two huge National Parks, the Northeast Coast of the North Sea to the beautiful island of reference for outdoor cinema Skye, we are not going to miss practically anything along the way. This Tour is a selection of all the variety that this ancient and mystical country can offer us in just five wonderful days.
MAY BE CONTRACTED IN PRIVATE OR OPEN GROUP.
PICK-UP place: for this Tour, the pick-up location is on West Register House; 17 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DF for Open Tours or you will have to give us your hotel address. HOTEL transfers: always are included for free on our Tours. AIRPORT transfers: are optional and have a supplement on this Tour.
Edinburgh: At the main stairs or West Register House. Glasgow: consult.
Photographic stop of the impressive bridges of Edinburgh, each of the three of different structure and the longest in the world in them. Forth Bridge named a World Heritage Site.
Photographic stop of this beautiful little town of buildings and houses more typical of the Highlands but which is located on the very outskirts of Edinburgh.
Do you know where the most famous king of Scotland is buried and who defeated the invading English army thus preserving Scottish independence? We bring you to the famous Dunfermline Abbey where the body of Robert the Bruce is buried among other Scottish kings and queens, but not his heart, we will tell you more here. The Dunfermline Palace is one of the oldest ruins in Scotland.
Do you know why the Scottish flag and the name of this beautiful town, the birthplace of Golf and filming location for the famous movie "Chariots of fire"? Well, we will show you the entire town and that is that the relics of the Apostle Saint Andres arrived here in the 8th century and this is the origin and progress of what was the largest Cathedral in all of Scotland. The third oldest English speaking university in the world is located here in addition to the headquarters of the oldest Golf club in the world and St. Andrews Castle. We will show you everything!
We will visit the ruins of what was the largest Cathedral in all of Scotland.
House of the Bishop of St Andrews and attacked several times by the English we will see the ruins of this important castle in its day.
We will see the exterior of the central building of the third oldest university in the entire English speaking world (1410) and one of the most important in the whole of the United Kingdom. Also the chapel of it.
We will pass by the oldest active golf course in the world and the club building of the Royal & Ancient club of St. Andrews called in the 18th century "The Knights of Fife Golf Club" and which drafted the first rules to play Golf.
We will also take you along the famous beach where the movie "Chariots of Fire" was filmed and you will see how along it there are numerous golf courses.
This is one of the most beautiful picturesque little towns in Pertshire. We will pass to see the same by the bucolic bridge and the ruins of the historic Cathedral where the relics of St Columba de Iona were.
On the way north we will cross the city of Dundee and see the famous RRS Discovery ship which was the first to locate the true magnetic pole of Antarctica in 1901.
Well, this is another of the most picturesque towns in all of Scotland and where the tourist boom of this beautiful country began with the visit of Queen Victoria in 1842.
Impressive citadel where the movie "Hamlet" was also filmed with Mel Gibson and Glenn Close in 1990 as well as inspired by the home of Princess Merida in the animated film "Brave". We will take photos of your silhouette and continue our super complete journey so that we have time for such beautiful and complete content today.
Beautiful, from a movie. Our company is one of the few that brings you through and through Scotland's largest National Park.
In Braemar, also a picturesque little town and the coldest in Scotland as well as a base for skiing in the area, we will have a light lunch.
Or the European Capital of Oil. Also known as the city of granite. We will make a short central tour and then rest in your wonderful hotel.
We leave the city of Granite for another wonderful and varied day.
In all our Tours we bring you to a distillery and if there is a typical Scottish style and famous for its Whiskey it is Strathisla, the house of Chivas Regal. Tour and tasting included.
Another of our secrets for you. A spectacular view? a cliff? a peninsula in the middle of the North Sea and the site of Scotland's largest Picto settlement? here we bring you, SPECTACULAR VIEW.
Outlander? Do you remember the famous TV series? We bring you to the dolmens outside Inverness that spawned the idea of time travel. In any case, a well-preserved Bronze Age site.
Does the battlefield of the famous Outlander series sound familiar to you? historically this is the field where this sad battle was held and that we show you along with the memorial rock to the Clan Fraser among others.
Surprise; we sail through the mysterious and immense Loch Ness, the largest in Scotland in search of its elusive inhabitant ......
We disembark at the ruins of this impressive 13th century castle at the foot of Loch Ness and we show it to you. Wonderful views.
During the next 4 days we will visit the ¾ parts of this immense and beautiful region of Scotland classified as one of the most beautiful natural settings and landscapes in the world with; lakes, mountains, cliffs, forests ...... a dream for our eyes and film directors with Steven Spielberg.
Finally we arrive at the capital of the Highlands or Highlands where we will rest tonight after our beautiful walk through the Cathedral, River Ness and Castle.
We start from the River Ness heading north and the distant and remote Scottish lands. We enter the Northern Highlands.
Headlights? dolphins? Perhaps in this beautiful place we have the opportunity to see them enter the Moray fjord.
Impressive French-style palace of the Sutherland clan and inhabited since the 13th century. Its spectacular views of the North Sea and its gardens will leave you pleasantly surprised.
And its important Golf club, huge and windy beach and small and bucolic Cathedral ..... we visited it.
One of the jewels of the Highlands and one of our favorite Scottish picturesque towns with all the houses painted soft and in the middle of the fjord. We visit it too.
How could it be otherwise, our Tours are the most complete and varied in all of Scotland and for this reason we visit this spectacular gorge carved in the rocks of Glacial origin and Pleistocene epoch. We went down to its suspension bridge to take some photos.
Or ...... "The Jewel of the Highlands", along with Ullapool, another of our favorite picturesque Scottish towns and home to the movie "The Wicker man" with Christopher Lee. Incredible bay where we will sleep.
We will depart from our picturesque village towards the spectacular Isle of Skye where numerous films have been filmed for their diversity and scenic beauty, to name a few: • The Wicker Man (1973) • The land that Time Forgot (1975) • Stardust (2007) • Prometheus (2012) • Snow white and the Huntsman (2012) • 47 Ronin (2013) Keanu Reeves. • The BFG "The Big Friendly Giant" (2016) Steven Spielberg. • Macbeth (2015) • King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) • Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Impressive and gigantic bridge of great curvature that we will pass to enter the enormous Isle of Skye in which in our company we are experts.
And the ruins of its keep the castle of Moil built by the Norwegian princess "Saucy Mary" in the fourteenth century.
From here we will start to climb the great bridge that crosses the Isle of Skye, wonderful views.
Within the variety of all our spectacular and super complete tours is this beautiful activity that you are going to enjoy today. Fancy a boat ride on the North Atlantic and a mini hike on Coruisk Lake at the foot of the spiky Black Cullins Mountains? Well there we go, in search of dolphins and whales.
Village and provisioning bay for the rest of the day of exploration in the beautiful and great Island.
If there are some cliffs, remote lighthouse and peninsula without equal on the entire island, this is Neist Point, we bring you to this beautiful and remote place for your delight.
As experts in this beautiful and varied island we have our secret routes for you, without revealing them here, we bring you to another of the most beautiful mountains and landscapes of Scotland from where you can enjoy endless views!
Prometheus, transformers and the last knight ..... and in more movies you will see this huge rock formation that is said to have been caused millions of years ago by the impact of a meteorite or ...... something else .... ..
The valley of the fairies, we bring you to this prices place whose rock formations seem created by the same fairies that inhabited this hidden green valley .....
If there is a famous cliff on the Isle of Skye it is Kilt Rock, named for the resemblance of the folds of its rocks with a kilt or kilt.
Village and bay mainly dedicated to the huge ferry that connects this island with the ancient island of Lewis & Harris.
At last we come to another of our favorite Scottish picturesque towns, with its bay and colorful houses, Portree or "Puerto del Rey" is one of the most photographed in all of Scotland, you will love it.
Extensive day of exploration of the island. There is a reason that we are one of the tour companies that have the most knowledge of this beauty of nature that is the Isle of Skye. We have shown you today through our "secret" routes the greatest beauties of this famous island. We rest at the foot of the impressive bridge.
We wake up and head towards the mainland leaving the island through the gigantic bridge .....
Momentary stop for supplies.
At last! one of the most photographed and famous castles in all of Scotland; Eilean Donan Castle created before the 18th century, probably through an initial church dedicated to the Irish saint Donan who came to Christianize Scotland in the 6th century, is one of the most photographed castles next to its bridge in Scotland. Spanish troops also stayed in this castle in the 18th century for their cooperation with the Jacobi revolution.
Beautiful region of lakes in the Highlands that we crossed in our trip and where we stopped to photograph some of them.
We arrived at the capital of outdoor activities across the UK. At the foot of the highest mountain in Great Britain; Ben Nevis accommodates this central Lochaber town and base for all outdoor sports and activities.
We also glide along the Great Valley or the Caledonian Canal that runs through Scotland and links the North Sea with the North Atlantic Ocean.
View of the site where this fortress was located
Of course ..... of course we visited the place where Prince Bonnie Charles Stuardo landed in 1745 and the Harry Potter viaduct that together with Lake Shiel form a beautiful set impossible to forget.
We cross the pretty little town of Glencoe and we tell you its dramatic story.
If there is a spectacular valley in Scotland this is Glen Coe and to quote just scenes from some movies shot here we name these: Braveheart, Rob Roy, Harry Potter, Outlander, Skyfall 007 ...... and we could continue
Impressive mountains and rock formations that will leave you speechless.
We also enter this spectacular natural park full of towns, lakes and forests.
Another bucolic Scottish village of Celtic and Druid origin at the foot of Loch Lomond, the largest in Scotland ........
Well, as you can appreciate we have taken you through practically the ¾ parts of this wonderful and spectacular Celtic country that is Alba-Scotland and you have been able to enjoy all the aspects and variety of it in addition to carrying out numerous activities and knowing its places and towns most beautiful and it is that this is a professional Tour, one of the most complete in Scotland in just 5 days, remember, in our company we have Tours from 1 to 15 days, this is a great Tour that brings together everything that the beautiful Scotland can offer you. To finish we come to the gothic capital of Scotland: Edinburgh "The Athens of the North" and World Heritage Site. We wait for you here again, until next time!
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