3 day / 2 Night Scottish Highland Experience from Glasgow – Spirit Journeys Worldwide
Description
Start and end in Glasgow! With the discovery tour 3 Day / 2 Night Scottish Highland Experience from Glasgow, you have a three-day tour package taking you through Glasgow, Scotland, and two other destinations in Scotland.
This 3 Day / 2 Night Scottish Highland Experience from Glasgow includes accommodation as well as an expert guide, meals, transport, and more.
Itinerary
Today we leave Glasgow and start our drive north to the Scottish Highlands. Travel via the “bonnie banks of Loch Lomond”, where our first stop will be before carrying onto the scenic Glencoe, one of the most spectacular and famous Highland Glens.
Carry on up the Great Glen we reach Fort William, home to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Scotland, where we will have time to explore before.
Travelling along the great glen fault line, a natural geographic fault line, now home to 4 lochs. Loch Linnhe, Loch Lochy Loch Oich, and the most famous Loch of all Loch Ness, we will see spectacular scenery before reaching Inverness, the Capital of the Highlands.
Overnight in bed and breakfast in Inverness Area
Today we explore the Highlands of Scotland, starting with the Capital City “Inverness”. An ancient stronghold of the Picts and was once visited by St Columba. Hear the history of this city.
We will then visit Culloden; the last ever pitched battle to be held on British Soil. The struggle also changed the Highlands of Scotland forever. Hear all about this from our historian guide and the lasting effects it had on the Highland people.
Overnight Bed and Breakfast in Inverness Area
Today we leave the Capital of the Highlands and travel South back to Glasgow. Leaving behind the Highlands of Scotland, the real Scotland that you dream about, and our homeland.
Carry on to Perthshire, the heart of Scotland as its also known. With many Glens and Forrest, we will stop at some off-the-beaten track for a “Kodak” picture moment.
Visit Stirling, the site of one of the most notorious battles in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Hear all about one of our many Scottish Heroes “Sir William Wallace”.
Visit Stirling Castle.
Carry on back to Glasgow
Be sure to return, as you will always be sure of a warm welcome.
Turas math dhuidh! (Have an enjoyable journey)
Tour info
Why take this tour?
Scotland, land of Celtic myth, history, and breathtaking beauty, has countless treasures crammed into its relatively compact territory – from big skies to ancient architecture, from spectacular wildlife to superb seafood and to top it all incredibly friendly, hospitable, and down-to-earth people.
Outside the ancient and beautiful UNESCO World Heritage capital city, Edinburgh, and other urban centres like Glasgow, once home to the largest shipping industry in the world but now a lively city of art, culture, great dining, and bars, the visitor is entranced by mountains glistening with the silver threads of icy rivers and waterfalls tumbling from highlands to lowlands. Here you’ll find villages with stations where you need to put your hand out to request a train stops and then suddenly, around the next mountain corner, a landscape peppered with gleaming lochs and expansive vistas.
Scotland has some of the last significant wilderness areas left in Western Europe. Here you can see golden eagles soar above the lochs and mountains of the northern Highlands, watch minke whales off the coast of Mull and spot otters tumbling in the kelp along the shores of the Outer Hebrides.
Scotland is also an adventure playground: you can tramp the sub-arctic tundra plateau of the Cairngorms, sea kayak among the seal-haunted mystic isles of the Outer Hebrides, mountain bike on world-class trails near Scotland’s highest mountain, trek along the valley or mountain trails and balance along tightrope narrow ridges between the peaks of the great Cuillins on Skye or take a speedboat ride into the legendary white water of the Corryvreckan whirlpool.
Scotland is a land with a rich and multilayered history. A place where every corner of the landscape is steeped in the past. A deserted croft on an island shore is a testament to generations past.
Included
2 Nights Accommodation on a Bed and Breakfast Basis
Expert English Speaking guide
Transport
Entrances where mentioned
Excluded
Tips
Items of a personal nature
Anything not mentioned in the itinerary
Things to know
Essential Info
Luggage space is limited on this tour. Please only take one small overnight bag with you. There is left luggage at Waverley train station Edinburgh where you can store excess luggage.
Luggage space is limited on this tour. Please only take one small overnight bag with you. There is left luggage at Waverley train station Edinburgh where you can store excess luggage.
Tour Suitability
Solo: Yes
Couples: Yes
Children: Yes
Groups: Yes
Wheelchairs: No
Solo: Yes
Couples: Yes
Children: Yes
Groups: Yes
Wheelchairs: No