The Highlands and Islands

Few places in the British Isles are as wild and evocative as Scotland ’s Highlands and Islands. Rugged natural beauty, unfettered wildlife, tragic history and romantic myth and legend, are all rolled into one making this stunning region an unmissable part of any visit to Scotland.

The Highlands are one of Europe’s last untamed wildernesses; of mountains, moorland, coasts and lochs urging you to stop every five minutes to take a picture of a distinctive landscape that will be etched into your hearts forever. Teaming with wildlife on land and in water, it’s a place of unbridled beauty whether you’re taking a hike into or even up the peaks or just admiring them from a comfortable distance. The Highlands and Islands

The land is dotted with baronial castles linked with evocative memories of the past. Of famous Scottish Heroes such as Rob Roy, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobites. Places etched into the tumultuous history of Scotland; Culloden , Bannockburn , Glen Coe and Glenfinnan and places where myth and beauty blend, to create legends like Mount Ben Nevis, the Great Glen, Loch Ness and its famous monster.

As well as experiencing the scenery and romance of the Highlands, people come to sample its culture and Scotland’s greatest export; whisky . Scotch single malt whiskies, each with its own distinctive flavour, have been distilled in the region for centuries from the Isle of Islay , and the Isle of Skye in the west, to Orkney in the north and most commonly the Speyside and Deeside glens Aberdeenshire, home to Glenfiddich and one of the Queen’s favoured royal residences, Balmoral Castle. The Highlands and Islands

Scotland has 790 islands of which 130 are inhabited and these remote yet beguiling islands present a rewarding challenge. From the northern most Shetland Isles and the once Nordic holding of Orkney, to the islands the Vikings called the ‘lands at the edge of the earth’; the Outer Hebrides and their inner Hebridian cousins of Skye, Mull and Iona , each island has a distinct sense of individuality, that is as much apart from Scotland as it is the rest of mainland Britain.

Sample the Magic! You simply haven’t visited Scotland unless you’ve made the trip up north to the Highlands and if you get as far as its islands you’ll certainly have some unique memories to talk about.

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