Loch Ness Glencoe Highlands and Whisky-Distillery Day Tour from Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 12 hours
Enjoy a full day tour in an air-conditioned mini coach taking you to discover the incredible natural beauty of Loch Ness, Glencoe and the highlands. A professional guide will take you for beautiful nature walks to see highland wildlife and you will have the opportunity for an optional boat cruise on Loch Ness or an optional whisky-tasting tour at a traditional scotch whisky-distillery.
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Enjoy a full day tour in an air-conditioned mini coach taking you to discover the incredible natural beauty of Loch Ness, Glencoe and the highlands. A professional guide will take you for beautiful nature walks to see highland wildlife and you will have the opportunity for an optional boat cruise on Loch Ness or an optional whisky-tasting tour at a traditional scotch whisky-distillery.Choose from our 7 different Edinburgh departure points closest your hotel (7.20am-8.00am), and hop on your air-conditioned, luxury minibus.
9.00AM: Pass by Stirling Castle, the Wallace Monument and Linlithgow Palace — the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots — en route to Deanston Distillery, where you can take an optional tasting tour of this working whisky-distillery. Breakfast is available in the distillery cafe.
10.30AM: We enter the 'Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park', where your Scottish guide will tell you the story of Rob-Roy MacGregor, the most infamous Highlander to have ever lived.
11.45AM: You can then follow in the footsteps of James Bond (Skyfall) and Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban) when we travel to the stunning and haunting 'Glencoe', a Highland valley whose eerie tales you’ll learn regarding the Clan MacDonald massacre of 1692.
12.30PM: We travel through Fort William, home to the largest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis, standing at 4,409 feet
1.30PM: We arrive on the Southern banks of Loch Ness, in the charming village of Fort Augustus. There are lots of cafes, shops and restaurants here for you to have a relaxing lunch, and stroll along the banks of the Caledonian Canal. Experience the majesty of Loch Ness on a relaxing, hour-long Boat Cruise (from 2-3 PM), where you might be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Nessie herself!
3.45 PM: We visit the impressive ‘Commando Memorial’ at Spean Bridge, and indulge in the breath-taking views of the Nevis Range, a sight that will delight keen photographers.
4.15 PM: Entering the beautiful Cairngorms National Park, ‘Monarch of the Glen’ country, we drive along Loch Laggan, before stopping at the ‘Pattack Falls’. A short walk here takes us to pretty waterfalls, tumbling through a rocky gorge, as the river makes it way through our beautiful native forest. Look out for wild berries through Spring and Summer.
5.00 PM: We make our way over the ‘Pass of Drumochter’, a mountain pass created by glacial-action during successive Ice Ages, and links the Northern and Southern Central Highlands.
5.45 PM: We make a stop in beautiful Victorian town of Pitlochry, a popular Victorian tourist destination.
8.00 PM: We arrive back to Edinburgh City Centre.
9.00AM: Pass by Stirling Castle, the Wallace Monument and Linlithgow Palace — the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots — en route to Deanston Distillery, where you can take an optional tasting tour of this working whisky-distillery. Breakfast is available in the distillery cafe.
10.30AM: We enter the 'Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park', where your Scottish guide will tell you the story of Rob-Roy MacGregor, the most infamous Highlander to have ever lived.
11.45AM: You can then follow in the footsteps of James Bond (Skyfall) and Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban) when we travel to the stunning and haunting 'Glencoe', a Highland valley whose eerie tales you’ll learn regarding the Clan MacDonald massacre of 1692.
12.30PM: We travel through Fort William, home to the largest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis, standing at 4,409 feet
1.30PM: We arrive on the Southern banks of Loch Ness, in the charming village of Fort Augustus. There are lots of cafes, shops and restaurants here for you to have a relaxing lunch, and stroll along the banks of the Caledonian Canal. Experience the majesty of Loch Ness on a relaxing, hour-long Boat Cruise (from 2-3 PM), where you might be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Nessie herself!
3.45 PM: We visit the impressive ‘Commando Memorial’ at Spean Bridge, and indulge in the breath-taking views of the Nevis Range, a sight that will delight keen photographers.
4.15 PM: Entering the beautiful Cairngorms National Park, ‘Monarch of the Glen’ country, we drive along Loch Laggan, before stopping at the ‘Pattack Falls’. A short walk here takes us to pretty waterfalls, tumbling through a rocky gorge, as the river makes it way through our beautiful native forest. Look out for wild berries through Spring and Summer.
5.00 PM: We make our way over the ‘Pass of Drumochter’, a mountain pass created by glacial-action during successive Ice Ages, and links the Northern and Southern Central Highlands.
5.45 PM: We make a stop in beautiful Victorian town of Pitlochry, a popular Victorian tourist destination.
8.00 PM: We arrive back to Edinburgh City Centre.
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