• One night’s accommodation (B&B or hostel, depending on which package you choose - see below)

• Transportation in contemporary, air-conditioned Mercedes coach

• Services of an experienced, professional driver-guide

• Two full days touring

• Free miniature of Famous Grouse whisky per adult booking

• Free online access to discounts and offers on other tours and visitor attractions with our Pocket Pass

• Stirling & Doune Castles
• Rannoch Moor
• Black Mount
• Glencoe
• Fort William
• Ben Nevis
• Clava Cairns
• Tomatin Distillery option
• Ruthven Barracks
• The Hermitage

From Edinburgh:

When: 9am Mondays

Where: the Timberbush shop at 555 Castlehill, at the entrance to Edinburgh Castle, at the top of the Royal Mile

From Glasgow:

When: 10.15am Mondays

Where: outside the Tourist Information Centre at 11 George Square

*please arrive 15 minutes before scheduled departure time to check in for tour

Day 1
If departing from Edinburgh, we'll head north-west, via Stirling, where we'll stop for photos of its magnificent Castle then after a stop at Kilmahog we'll travel past Doune, Callander and through the Trossachs climbing up via Crianlarich, into the Highlands. If departing from Glasgow, first we head west, making a stop at the 'Bonny, Bonny Banks' of Loch Lomond and the pretty conservation village of Luss before moving up via Tyndrum.

Both departures follow the scenic routes into the Highlands where we descend into the desolate expanse of Rannoch Moor, passing the Black Mount, to the valley of Glencoe - infamous for its bloody massacre of the MacDonalds in 1692 - where we can enjoy a leisurely walk. We continue north towards the Highland town of Fort William, nestling in the shadow of Scotland's tallest mountain, Ben Nevis. After lunch in the Fort William area, our final destination is Inverness, capital of the Highlands, where we'll arrive early evening.

Day 2
Enjoy a flexible itinerary today with your guide. We may choose to visit the fascinating Culloden Battlefield, where the Jacobites and Bonnie Prince Charlie were defeated by the Duke of Cumberland, then returning to the A9 road, on the south edge of the moor we'll see the ancient stones of the Neolithic Clava Clairns, before the opportunity for a visit and whisky tasting at Tomatin Distillery.
  

After a lunch stop in the ski resort area of Aviemore we'll move south to get a glimpse of the ospreys at the Loch Garten Osprey Centre* or visit the old military garrison of Ruthven Barracks, built by General Wade. At the Highland Folk Museum in Kingussie we can see examples of domestic and agricultural Highland life. We'll start our return journey via Perthshire, stopping at the pretty woodland of The Hermitage for a forest walk, glimpsing the 18th 'folly' of Ossian’s Hall before crossing the Forth back to Edinburgh.
    

*Subject to seasonal opening time

Optional extras: Tomatin Distillery, Loch Garten Osprey Centre

• All meals & drinks

• Admissions to visitor attractions and/or cruises

• Ensuite bed & breakfast accommodation in a single, twin, double or family room in a three to four-star bed & breakfast. There is no single occupancy charge.

• Price-Buster package:
  Accommodation in shared single-sex (on request) or mixed dormitory of varying room-sizes from four beds upwards, in two, three or four-star hostel accommodation or equivalent (all accommodation subject to availability).

• In the event that we are not able to source hostel accommodation for the client we will upgrade the client to a room in a Bed & Breakfast or Guest House – as per our VisitScotland terms & conditions.

*The exact itinerary of this tour will vary slightly depending on whether the coach is departing directly from Edinburgh or is travelling via Glasgow to collect passengers.

**In order to limit the environmental impact from our extended tours, our 2 and 3 day tours pick up passengers in Edinburgh first and then pick up in Glasgow. On the return journey the coach returns to Edinburgh only. Our passengers returning to Glasgow are provided with a free Edinburgh - Glasgow rail ticket for this part of the return journey by train. Passengers are dropped at Waverley Rail Station for the return journey to Glasgow. Please bear this in mind when making any onward travel connections you may have after your tour with us.

***children must be over five years old