The Scottish Highlands hidden delights
When you visit the Scottish Highlands you’d be forgiven in thinking that you are in another world let alone still in the UK, many people often forget what natural beauty lies within this country and how much there is to enjoy. The Scottish Highlands offer a treasure trove of fresh fish, fine whisky, astounding lochs, and stunning scenery to explore, to see the best you can stay in one of many holiday rentals in the area from rustic log cabins to quaint little cottages to get a real feel.
Scottish Highlands, Gruinard Bay, Wester Ross,
Picture courtesy of HighlandBlade
The Highlands cover an extensive area and are home to a quarter of a million people, spread among some vibrant cities such as Inverness to small crafting communities as well as some of the sparsely populated islands around the coast. Covering the Northern Highlands, Skye & Lochalash, Inverness, Loch Ness & Nairn, Aviemore & Cairngorms, Fort William & Lochaber and Moray, you may need more than one holiday here!
There’s a lot to see and do in the Highlands whether your taking a family holiday, a romantic weekend away or an action packed group holiday why not give walking, cycling, golfing, kayaking, sailing or pony trekking a go. If you want to learn some of the history of the area, you can take a look around at some of the Scottish Castles such as Dunvegan Castle & Gardens which was built on a rock in an idyllic loch side setting, it’s also the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland and has been the ancestral home of the Chiefs of Clan MacLeod for 800 years.
Dunvegan Castle & Gardens
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There are many things that Scotland is famous for one of which is its best export, Whisky, for centuries the Gaelic speaking clans produced ‘uisge beatha’ (Gaelic: ‘water of life’), now known as Whisky, you can visit one of many distilleries and learn about its heritage and the importance to the culture and history of the country.
If you stay in a holiday cottage or cabin you can go out and enjoy all the fresh locally sourced food in the area such as fresh sea food, prime Aberdeen Angus beef and lots of whisky to wash it down.
Aberdeen Angus
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