Scotland
is waiting - for you!
Discover beautiful Scotland by car!
Please choose:
Scottish castle tour
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B&B-Tour - - - - -
Scottish scenery tour
You can find prices and general informations below the itineraries.
All travel is offered by the specialized travel agency Kuoni, Klosterneuburg, Austria
PLEASE NOTE! Journeys to Scotland are much cheaper this year!
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Scottish Bed & Breakfast Trip
Car hire with accommodation in Scottish B&Bs (from EUR 325 = app $ 442 = app GBP 270 p.P.)
8 days / 7 nights
Daily to/from Edinburgh or Dalnaglar Castle
Individual round-trip in a hired car with accommodation in
excellent private guest houses or B&Bs which are already booked for you. Discover Scotland's beauties, majestic sceneries,
historic buildings, cultural wonders, and archipelagos on your own account and get in touch with the friendly people there.
And here is our trip plan for you (can be, of course, modified!):
1st Day:
Edinburgh
After your arrival at Edinburgh airport (Turnhouse) and taking possession of your hired car you have time to discover
Scotland's beautiful and vivid capital for the rest of the day.
Go for a long walk down or up the historical Royal Mile, go shopping in Princess Street or say a prayer in the medieval
cathedral of St Giles. Then visit the old castle and stroll down to famous Holyroodhouse at the other end of the Royal Mile.
Accommodation in or near Edinburgh is already booked for you.
2nd Day:
Edinburgh - Oban (app 240 km or 150 miles)
Today you discover the beautiful area around Loch Lomond which is the largest lake of Great Britain. This ice-age glacier
lake is for many Scotland fans the most romantic and most beautiful of all Scottish lochs and should actually be a part and
one of the highlights of a Scotland trip. Unfortunately there is only very scarce secure parking space along this often narrow and
winding road along the bank of the loch.
In the little town of Luss you can visit an interesting bagpipe manufacture.
Next stop is in beautiful Inveraray with its snow-white houses, the famous Jail and majestic Inveraray Castle.
From here you should drive through Kilmartin Glen where you can visit a lot of (chambered) cairns and stone circles of
the neolithic and bronze age. Then you can visit the former capital of Scotland (around 500 AD) called Dunadd Fort and
will then reach the busy ferry port Oban at the west coast.
Here you will spend the next two nights.
3rd Day:
The isles of
Mull and Iona (app 60 km or 40 miles)
Drive on the A83 back as far as Lochgilphead and then take the A816 north which is running partly along the shore.
If you want you can have a closer look at the little Isle of Seil
which you can reach over a hundreds of years old stone bridge of Clachan - a bridge which is
spanning the sea!
Oban is a very colourful and vivid town. Allow yourself a long
walk through this important port where the ferries to Mull and other isles of the Hebrides are leaving and visit the
curious so-called "Oban Folly" on a hill above the town.
In oban you can book guided tours to Mull, Iona, and Staffa with the famous Fingal's Basalt Cave. Of course, you also
can reach the isles by ferry.
The beautiful and quiet abbey island of Iona can be
easily reached by car if you take the main single-track road (A849) on the Isle of Mull
heading to the south-west to Fionnphort where it is ending. There a little passenger ferry will take
you over the Sound of Iona to this wonderful picturesque island which should really be one of the highlights of your
Scotland trip. Here, at the birthplace of the occidental Christianity, where St Columba founded a little cloister in the
6th ct, here, from where the Christianity began its victorious career throughout Europe, and here where 48 Scottish kings
were buried, here you can deeply feel the breeze of the past.
Hint:
The ferry from Oban to Craignure on Mull and back should be booked in advance if you are travelling in the main season.
Of course, we can do this for you!
4th Day:
Oban
- Fort William Isle of Skye (app. 200 km or 125 miles)
On the A828 your journey through Scotland continues along the shore from Oban to
Fort William at the foot of Ben Nevis, which ist Great Britain's highest mountain.
Please stop here! It is a really beautiful and busy little town on the northern end of Loch Linnhe. Walk through the
tourist bursting passenger zone with its many souvenir shops and make a little boat tour on the famous Caledonian Canal
which contains of three big lochs (Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness).
Now continue along the shore of Loch Lochy to Invergarry and leave this road to discover the perhaps most famous and
beautiful road of Scotland - the A87 and so-called "
Road to the Isles". At the quiet shores of great Loch Cluanie you are entering Glen Shiel
with the famous majestic peaks of the "Five Sisters of Kintail" in the
background.
Near Shiel Bridge you reach Loch Duich in which one of the most famous castles of Scotland is still standing since
the Middle Ages - Eilean
Donan Castle. It was built in the 13th ct on a rocky spit of land and can be reached
over an ancient stone bridge. This unforgettable sight will doubtlessly be another highlight of your Scotland trip.
Passing through some picturesque little villages you finally reach Kyle of Lochalsh
which is the end of the railway and an important ferry port of former times. Since several years you can
reach the Isle of Skye by taking the new big Skye bridge.
You'll spend the next night on the Isle of Skye.
5th and 6th Day:
Insel Skye - Inverness (app 180 km or 115 miles)
Today you'll make a round tour on the Isle of Skye. You should definitely visit the old castle of the Clan MacLeod called
Dunvegan, the great rock formation of the Old Man of Storr, the famous cliff of Kilt Rock, the open-air museum of Kilmuir,
the colourful and busy island capital Portree, the Talisker destillery, the mighty mountain range of the Cuillins, and
Armadale Castle, the residence of the MacDonalds of Skye.
Near Kyle of Lochalsh you reach the Scottish mainland again. Now take the A87 for a while and then branch off
to the A890 to Achnasheen.
Along Loch Carron you will experience one of the most beautiful regions of the Scottish Highlands. In Achnasheen
you should take the A832 which will lead you through remote glens of Wester Ross to Kinlochewe and the quiet and lonely
Loch Maree to
Gairloch where you are back at the west coast.
Some miles to the north-east of Gairloch, directly on the A832, you will pass the parking place of the next great
highlight of your Scotland trip - the wonderful Inverewe Gardens
. You shouldn't miss them although it will take you at least three hours to visit them. You will be
delighted by the various colours and smells of the partly even subtropical flowers and plants.
In Gruinard Bay there isw little Gruinard Island which
is a forbidden area. After the Second World War the government has contaminated the island with anthrax.
Along Little Loch Broom your way will now lead you eastwards as far as Braemore
Junction in the middle of the solitude of the Scottish Highlands. Here the A832 meets
the A835 which would take you to the main town of the western Highlands - Ullapool
. But here you should continue going eastwards to discover one of the remotest regions of
the British Isles - a road on which there is only the picturesque Inn of Aultguish
after passing Loch Glascarnoch.
Shortly before you reach Garve you will see the A832 again. Near the little health-resort
Strathpfeffer you can find a typically medieval Scottish tower house
called Castle Leod. Then you should go for a relaxing walk
through the main street of Dingwall. Near Conon Bridge
you cross the Cromarty Sound and are now on the peninsular of Black Isle. Now it's not very far to the capital of the
Highlands called Inverness where you'll spend the next night.
7th Day:
Inverness
Perth (app 220 km or 140 miles)
On this morning you have to choose your further way along Loch Ness. You can either take the A82 southwards on which
you can find the medieval Urquhart
Castle and the Nessie centre
Drumnadrochit. Or you choose the more beautiful route along the
eastern shore of Loch Ness with its lonely single-track roads. Both roads are meeting again at
Fort Augustus with its relatively new but fine Benedictine abbey.
Now go for a drive on the A82 along the Caledonian Canal as far as Spean Bridge and then
take the A86 along Loch Laggan to Laggan. Here - you are now in the centre of Scotland -
you'd take the A889 leading south over the mysteriously dark Pass of Drumochter with
its famous Dalwhinnie whisky distillery. Crossing the mighty Cairngorm mountain range
you finally reach another highlight of your Scotland trip -
Blair Atholl Castle,
the marvellous and very old tower house residence of the Dukes of Atholl who are allowed to
have a private army!
Near Bridge of Garry you can have a short stop at the wonderful view point
Queens View overlooking the
great scenery of quiet Loch Tummel - don't miss it!!! Passing the little towns of
Pitlochry
and Dunkeld
with a fine medieval cathedral and restored houses of the 16th - 18th ct you finally
reach the big city of Perth. Only
Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen have more inhabitants than Perth who gave its name to a even bigger
city in western Australia. Go for a walk through the city centre - there is a busy pedestrian zone -
and visit the cathedral of St John. A few miles north-east of Perth you then should visit
Scone
Palace and the near Moot Hill where the ancient Scottish kings
were crowned. Also within only a few miles are the medieval tower houses of
Elcho Castle
and Huntingtower Castle.
You'll spend this night in or around Perth.
8th Day:
Perth - Edinburgh
From Perth you can take the motorway south to Edinburgh. If you still have some time visit the small town of Kinross
which lies directly beside the motorway and Dunfermeline which was the capital of Scotland in early times.
At North Queensferry you cross the Firth of Forth over a several miles long motorway toll bridge, the
Forth Road Bridge. Scotland's capital
Edinburgh lies to the left side. Leave the A90 after reaching the other shore of the Firth.
On the last day you can make a shopping tour through Edinburgh's busy city centre or visit some of the
already above mentioned sights.
Then you give back your hired car
and leave Scotland by plane.
Dates:
daily
Included services:
7 nights in rooms with bath or shower and
toilet.
Scottish breakfast
Touring guide
Excluded:
Flights to/from Scotland
Car hire (we can easily book a car for you if you want!)
Ferry tickets
Admission tickets
Prices:
You will be pleasantly astonished
how cheap a Scotland trip can be this year!
from EUR 325 = app $ 442 = app GBP 270 per person
for a double room from EUR 485 = app $ 660 = app GBP 405
for one person in a single room
Please add some dollars/pounds (app 10 - 15) if you want to travel
in summer.
Add also a small booking fee
Of course, this itinerary can be modified adn adjusted to your personal wishes.
Please make an enquiry!
Send us an email telling us your
detailed wishes (how many persons, exact travel dates and duration, special wishes, if you additionally
want to hire a car (which car?) or book flights to Scotland and back home etc.)
Please DO NOT send us general enquiries. It's impossible
to give a good estimate if we don't know such important details!
If you provide us with full details and a correct
email address we'll send you non-binding informations about your Scotland tour. Please enter "Scottish B&B Tour" in the
subject line of your email - thank you!
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