Days of operation:
Saturdays, 5 May – 29 September 2012.

Tour starts: 8:45am at 60 High Street, Edinburgh
Tour finishes: 5.30pm at 60 High Street, Edinburgh

• one night's accommodation in a 3* B&B/Hotel - room with private facilities
• full Scottish breakfast
• two full day excursions in a state-of-the-art Mercedes midi-coach
• services of fully trained local guide throughout the trip
• optional Loch Ness boat cruise
• return journey from Edinburgh

Excludes:

• lunches & evening meals

• Loch Ness cruise and admission to visitor attractions

DAY ONE: Heading north, savour stunning views of the Forth Bridge and enter the Highlands through Perthshire, a land of forests, rivers and mountains. We make a stop at Dunkeld, a quaint village by the River Tay, famous for its cathedral. Then, skirting the dramatic Pass of Killiecrankie, site of the famous 17th Century Jacobite battle, we journey on to the haunting ruins of Ruthven Barracks. It was on this spot the last remnants of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army regrouped after their bloody defeat at Culloden. We discover the beauty of the Cairngorms National Park, with a stop for lunch in the Highland village of Aviemore. Then we follow the shores of legendary Loch Ness en route to the charming village of Fort Augustus. There is the opportunity to take an optional boat cruise and go Nessie spotting docking at Urquhart Castle, where the monster has been spotted many times…

DAY TWO: We start the day passing through Fort William, a coastal town that sits beneath Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. We continue our journey through dramatic Glencoe, scene of the infamous massacre in 1692 and over the wilds of Rannoch Moor onto Loch Earn in Rob Roy country. We visit the Famous Grouse Experience, one of Scotland’s oldest working distilleries, have lunch and you have the option to take a guided tour and discover how Scotland’s most famous drink is made. On our return to the capital, we stop in Stirling (the ancient capital of Scotland) and visit the impressive Wallace Monument, a mighty tower constructed in memory of one of our most famous heroes.