Ring of Brodgar - Orkney Islands
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Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Islands
Ancient Scotland Tour including the Orkney Islands 2024
Take a micro-group, guided tour of the Ancient Sites of Scotland! With 7 pax max and 8 nights accommodations included, you'll be treated to the most spectacular sites of Scotland. The highlight is 2 full days on the Orkney Islands!
- Day 1 - Stirling
- Arrive Stirling and transfer to your pre-booked accommodations. Like most Scottish towns, Stirling is a friendly city with a good selection of traditional music at pubs around town and very good shopping choices.
- Overnight in Stirling.
- Day 2 - Journey begins - Medieval Cathedral and Priory of St Andrews
- The highlight of this day will be the royal burgh of St Andrews, once the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland. The medieval cathedral and priory began with a foundation of Augustinian canons established between 1127 and 1144. Built partly in the Norman and partly in the early Gothic style, it was by far the largest church in Scotland, with an internal length of 357 feet (109 metres). The cathedral and priory were enclosed by an elaborate precinct wall, much of which survives. This day will also include Abernethy, the Pictish Capital, and a visit to Tullibardine Distillery.
- Overnight Stirling.
- Day 3 - Loch Lomond, Ancient Seat of the Early Scottish Kings, Ancient Monuments in Kilmartin Glen
- This day will start with a drive up along the fabled Loch Lomond enroute to Lochgilphead and Kilmartin. Rising dramatically from Moine Mhor, Dunadd appears as a rocky outcrop near Lochgilphead. Many people have heard of Tara, the seat of the High Kings of Ireland. Well Dunadd Fort, in the Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, is the Ancient Seat of the Early Scottish Kings!! And just like Tara, when you climb to the top of Dunadd, you can feel the vibrations of ancient energy! The rest of this day will be spent investigating the ancient monuments in Kilmartin Glen which holds over 300 of them in a few square miles.
- Overnight near Kilmartin.
- Day 4 - Glen Lonan, Diarmaid’s Stone, Connel Bridge, Castle Stalker View
- Enroute to Inverness, we’ll stop and see some fascinating pieces of Scottish History. You'll see Glen Lonan with photostops at Diarmaid’s Stone, Connel Bridge, the Castle Stalker View. You'll also have a photostop and short walk at Old Fort William. After lunch at the Highland Soap Company, you'll go on to see the Well of the Seven Heads. Your guide will tell you all about it. From there, you’ll drive along the Great Glen, stopping at Fort Augustus then see the amazing length of Loch Ness, with a stop for photos at Urquhart Castle before arriving in Inverness.
- Overnight Inverness.
- Day 5 - Day in Inverness, Shopping, Whiskey, Music, Books, Hop-on Hop-off Bus
- This day will be a day off for the guide and a day for you to investigate Inverness with your included hop-on hop-off bus pass. Like most Scottish towns, Inverness is filled with friendly people and has traditional music and very good shopping. Recommended places to visit: The Whisky Shop just up the hill from the River Ness on High Street, Leakey's Second-hand Bookshop filled with thousands of books, MacGregor’s Bar (with regular music sessions), Gellions Bar (nightly live music) across the street from the Whisky Shop, Hootananny (more music) down Church Street, Highland House of Fraser - Kiltmaker & Supplier of Highland Dress, "The Bar" at the Glenmoriston Townhouse Hotel (for a wee dram), and just past there, the Ness Islands (a lovely walk thru tall trees). See my blog : Things to do in Inverness.
- Overnight Inverness.
- Day 6 - Old Man of Hoy, Cliffs of Yesnaby or Sheila Fleet Jewelry Designer, St Magnus Cathedral
- Today you will begin your journey to the remote Orkney Islands with a drive up to the far north of the Scottish mainland. You will drive up through the scenic Scottish Highlands before catching a ferry to the Orkney Islands. Your sites this day will be weather dependent. After visiting the Old Man of Hoy (iconic sea stack that soars out of the Atlantic Ocean on the island’s spectacular west coast), you will either walk the scenic cliffs of Yesnaby, (famous for it's sea stack called the Yesnaby Castle) or a visit to local jewelry designer, Sheila Fleet (one of Scotland's most renowned jewellery designers). And finally you will visit St Magnus Cathedral, known as the 'Light in the North' which was founded in 1137 in honor St Magnus who was martyred in Orkney.
- Overnight Kirkwall.
- Day 7 - Standing Stones of Stenness, Ring of Brodgar, Ness of Brodgar, Maeshowe, Skara Brae
- This day will include a plethora of intriguing ancient sites. You will begin your day with the captivating Standing Stones of Stenness, a henge which is older than Stonehenge by hundreds of years. Next you’ll visit the majestic circle of standing stones known as Ring of Brodgar, or Orkney's Legendary Dancing Giants. The height of the stones ranges between smaller stones at seven feet tall, and the largest reaching to above 15 feet, creating a circle that would have been over 300 feet in diameter. Near by you’ll drive by the extensive Neolithic archaeological site, the Ness of Brodgar. Next you’ll see Maeshowe, a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave built 5,000 years ago. On the southern shore of the Bay o' Skaill, in the West Mainland parish of Sandwick, is the Neolithic village of Skara Brae which was inhabited for around 600 years, between 3200BC and 2200BC.
- Overnight Kirkwall.
- Day 8 - Italian Chapel, Bishop's Palace, Earl's Palace then Ferry back to Mainland Scotland
- In the morning, visit the Italian Chapel, a beautiful Roman Catholic chapel in Lamb Holm which was constructed by Italian POWs during the Second World War. Then you will visit the Bishop's Palace and Earl's Palace, then catch the ferry back to mainland Scotland. You will drive through the highlands of Scotland and return to the charming capitol of the Highlands, Inverness, for your final night of the tour.
- Overnight Inverness.
- Day 9 - Inverness - End of Tour
- Breakfast is included on this final day but the tour is over after breakfast. You may schedule your flight home for this day (or you may choose to extend your stay and see more of Scotland).
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Mai — September
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30191 Kings Valley East
Conifer CO
Jefferson
USA
80433
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It's Celtic Time! is a boutique travel agency specializing in travel to Scotland and Ireland, including Outlander Tours of Scotland, Ireland Immersion Tours, and micro-group trips. From custom itineraries and tours to family fun vacations and sightseeing, our highly acclaimed tours and travel planning services can help make your Celtic journey the trip of a lifetime. It's Celtic Time!, a division of A Happy Place Travel LLC. Kathie is an IATAN accredited Travel Agent, Tourism Ireland Specialist, and CIE Tours Ireland Expert.
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