Loch Lomond, The Highlands and Stirling Castle Day Trip from Edinburgh

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Loch Lomond

  Soon after passing the River Clyde, world famous for it’s heavy industry and shipbuilding, we stop on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, Britain’s largest expanse of water, with time for a boat trip or a ramble, as you wish. The Loch Lomond and Trossachs area was recently designated as a National Park, where the magnificent landscape has fired the imagination of writers and artists for centuries.

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 2
  Aberfoyle

  Moving on, we soon come to the village of Aberfoyle, the gateway to the Trossachs, where we will stop for lunch. With its lochs, glens and heather covered mountains’ this area is well known as ‘Scotland in Miniature’, and was a favourite destination of Sit Walter Scott, who used the location as the backdrop for his ‘Rob Roy’ and ‘The Lady of the Lake’.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• National Wallace Monument (Pass by)

  Take in the magnificent views over the Forth Valley towards the Wallace Monument, a 200-foot memorial to William Wallace, the man immortalised in the movie ‘Braveheart’.

  Admission ticket free
• 3
  Stirling Castle

  Then on to Stirling, with an opportunity to visit the Castle. With at least an hour’s stop on the castle esplanade you will be able to visit the castle or other nearby attractions and take in the magnificent views over the Forth Valley towards the Wallace Monument, a 200-foot memorial to William Wallace, the man immortalised in the movie ‘Braveheart’.

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 4
  The Kelpies & The Helix

  Kelpies - At 30m high, they are the largest equine sculptures in the world and portray mythical creatures from Scottish folklore

  20 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Minimum age is 6 years
• Children must be accompanied by an adult

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