Highlights of Scotland – Spirit Journeys Worldwide
Description
Enjoy our Highlights of Scotland with a small group luxury tour by Spirit Journeys Worldwide. This beautiful introductory tour to Scotland will showcase some of the best highlights, the most beautiful scenery, and the many sights that Scotland has to offer. From Edinburgh to the white sands of Harris and the Highlands of Scotland. Enjoy and feel the Spirit of Scotland. This exclusive tour will take you on a journey of discovery with the people who know Scotland well. From Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, you will hear all about our History, battles, the Jacobite’s, Outlander, and much more up to the Isle of Harris and Lewis with the most magnificent sandy white beaches and the mystical Callanish Standing Stones. This tour will show you the Highlights of Scotland like no other tour; we will visit some hidden gems, take you off the beaten track, tell you unknown stories about the people and places of Scotland plus much much more.
Itinerary
Today you will arrive in Scotland’s largest city – Glasgow also known as the “City of Smiles”, where you will stay for one night. Upon arrival at Glasgow airport, we will meet you and transfer you to your hotel for check-in. In the afternoon we will enjoy a tour of Glasgow's Hidden Gems.
Highlights:
Glasgow Cathedral
Kelvin Grove Art Gallery
Transport Museum
The Tenement House
Pollock Country Park
Glasgow Green
Today, after breakfast, we start our journey to the Highlands.
Highlights:
Loch Lomond
Glencoe
Fort William
After breakfast, we will start our journey to the Outer Hebrides.
This stunning tour takes us past film locations from movies such as Highlander, Local Hero, Skyfall, and Harry Potter.
Highlights:
Glenfinnan
Isle of Skye
Discover Harris with its white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters, its rich history and stunning scenery, a truly memorable day exploring the Outer Hebrides.
Highlights:
The magnificent Standing Stones of Callanish
Black Houses – an insight into Past Western Isle Life
Beautiful White beaches with crystal clear waters
Harris Tweed
Harris Gin
Travel to Inverness where you will spend the next two nights. During your stay in Inverness, you will have the opportunity to visit such sites as the world-famous Loch Ness.
Highlights:
Corrieshalloch Gorge
Rogie Falls
Explore Inverness and Loch Ness area. After breakfast, we will take a beautiful boat journey up Loch Ness to Urquhart Castle followed by exploring some of the beautiful countryside around Loch Ness.
Highlights:
Loch Ness Boat trip
Urquart Castle
Strathglass
Highland village of Beauly
Journey back to Edinburgh, where you will stay for the next two nights, the capital city of Scotland.
Highlights:
Rannoch Moor
Kelpies
Distillery visit
Discover Edinburgh with its stories and secrets as we take you on a walking tour of Edinburgh
Highlights:
Royal Mile with its closes and secrets
Edinburgh Castle
Today you will say farewell to Scotland. After breakfast, we will transfer you to the airport for your departure home.
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
All meals per itinerary
All transfers
All Entrances and tours
Tour guide
Accommodation
Excluded
Visa
Personal expenses
Meals not provided in itinerary
International Airfares
Health insurance
Things to know
Tour Suitability
Solo: Yes
Couples: Yes
Children: Yes
Groups: Yes
Wheelchairs: No
Solo: Yes
Couples: Yes
Children: Yes
Groups: Yes
Wheelchairs: No
Essential Info
This is a Small group tour.
This is a Small group tour.