Eilean Donan Castle tours, visit the heart of the Highlands - Glencoe and Buachaille Etive Mor

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Eilean Donan Castle , the Highlands, Scotland

Eilean Donan Castle Tours & the Highlands of Scotland from Edinburgh

Private tours of Eilean Donan Castle and the Highlands from Edinburgh including a visit to Glencoe & Buachaille Etive Mor. We take you to the best spots for taking pictures of the beautiful scenery of the Highlands.Phone +44131-549-9785 for booking

Private tours of Eilean Donan Castle and the Highlands from Edinburgh including a visit to Glencoe and Buachaille Etive Mor .

Take an epic journey through the Highlands to the iconic Eilean Donan Castle . Where are the top three locations for pictures of Eilean Donan Castle ? Your guide will take you to the best spots for taking pictures of the castle and the beautiful scenery of Glencoe and the Highlands . Phone / Whatsapp +447305294773 for more details and availability or contact us online .

What makes our tours unique ?

  • professional driver / guide
  • private tours - only small groups up to four people
  • Scottish music - TV / film themes and Scottish artists
  • photography - we help customers to take the best possible pictures on their trip
  • information about Scottish culture and arts

Check availability for the Eilean Donan Castle tour

This photo tour is ideal for beginners/ intermediate photographers . Your photo guide will offer assistance as required with taking pictures. Shore excursions- all of our tours are available as shore excursions from the Edinburgh ports South Queensferry, Newhaven and Rosyth . Daytime phone number +44131 549 9785.

Check out our custom tours of Scotland - choose where you want to go .

Also available castle tours of Scotland and Lallybroch tours ( Midhope Castle in Outlander, the ancestral home of Jamie Fraser).

Also available - our new Game of Thrones and Eilean Donan Castle Tour


featuring a visit to Doune Castle / Winterfell and Eilean Donan Castle in the Highlands.

Our promise – your guide will always be friendly , helpful and informative .

Private tours Edinburgh - Eilean Donan Castle Tours

  • Glencoe
  • Eilean Donan Castle
  • Buachaille Etive Mor
  • Private tour of the Highlands
  • Photography tour
  • Tour of the Highlands from Edinburgh 

Eilean Donan Castle

Eilean Donan Castle is the stunning Highlands castle set on an island in the middle of three lochs. The castle is the most photographed castle in the UK and it featured in the films Highlander and James Bond . There have been rumours that Game of Thrones was filmed at Eilean Donan Castle , but that is not true . Your tour guide will take you to the three best locations for pictures of the castle .

Eilean Donan means Island of Donan (a religious figure from the 12th century). Eilean Donan was Clan MacKenzie's most important stronghold from the 13th Century until it was destroyed in 1719.

Robert the Bruce was given refuge in Eilean Donan Castle by John MacKenzie, Second of Kintail when he was being hunted by the English .

In 1719 three English frigates sailed into Loch Duich and bombarded the castle until a direct hit on the arsenal left it in ruins. The castle them lay in ruins for nearly 200 years. In 1911 John MacRae-Gilstrap bought the castle and spent 20 years restoring it .

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What is the connection between Eilean Donan Castle and the Game of Thrones ? There seems to be a lot of GOT fans who think the show was filmed at Eilean Donan Castle , for some reason . Actually Doune Castle is the GOT castle in Scotland - it was where the Feast of Winterfell was filmed in the first episode.

Eilean Donan Castle has appeared in a number of films , including the James Bond film the World is not Enough and Highlander .

Eilean Donan Castle t-shirts and prints can be bought online . Phone +44-7305-294773 for more details .

Castle gifts and souvenir prints are available - ask your driver for details . 


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Glencoe

Glencoe - see the stunning scenery of the paps of Glencoe , one of the most impressive peaks in Scotland. Glencoe is a beautiful rocky landscape featuring the Paps of Glencoe – giant mountains of solid rock. In the summer you might hear the piper in the car park playing a lament . When it goes quiet the silence is quite eery . Listen carefully and you might hear the wailing of ghosts from the Massacre of Glencoe.

Your guide will take to the two best viewing points in Glencoe . One of the viewing points involves a short walk up the hillside facing the paps of Glencoe . Glencoe prints

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On the way to Buachaille Etive Mor we will pass Black Mount and Lochan nah Achlaise . Check out this video of the Highlands .

Black Mount is a range of mountains stretching from Glen Orchy to Glen Coe, beside Rannoch Moor. The range features two Munros (Scottish mountains over 3000ft) and Lochan na h-Achlaise , a small loch in front of the mountains .

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Buachaille Etive Mor

Buachaille Etive Mor is the iconic mountain in the heart of the Highlands. Your guide will take you to the best viewpoints for capturing great pictures of Etive Mor and the waterfall on the River Coupall in front of the mountain .

On the tour we pass the Kelpies - 100 feet high sculptures of Clydesdale horses and each one was made from 300 tonnes of steel . In five years the Kelpies have had over two million visitors. Kelpies gifts and souvenirs can be bought online .

Our photo tours of Scotland set off from Edinburgh and feature visits to the top scenic locations in the Highlands of Scotland .

This tour starts at 10 am and costs £425

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Our photo tours of Scotland set off from Edinburgh and feature visits to the top scenic locations in the Highlands of Scotland. Perfect for iPhone and DSLR users with a passion for landscape photography .

For more details about availability phone / Whatsapp +447305-294773 . Shore excursions- all of our tours are available as shore excursions from the Edinburgh ports South Queensferry, Newhaven and Rosyth .

This day trip from Edinburgh is ideal for solo travellers and small groups of up to to four people . We have a wide range of Castle tours of Scotland .

Each tour features

  • music - relevant TV / film themes and Scottish music
  • photography - we help customers to take the best possible pictures on their trip
  • information about Scottish culture and arts

Day trip from Edinburgh

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Your tour guide is David , an experienced tour guide and travel photographer. He is a landscape photographer on Photogold

Our photo tours of Scotland set off from Edinburgh and feature visits to the top scenic locations in the Highlands of Scotland. Perfect for iPhone and DSLR users with a passion for landscape photography ( and Instagram ) . Your guide will give you his unique Insights into Scottish culture ,music and art including Jack Vettriano

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January — December

Contact details

Private tours Edinburgh Scotland

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Tour information

Starting

  • Edinburgh
  • Edinburgh - City Centre
  • Edinburgh Airport

Length

1 Day

Transport

  • Driver guide

Type

  • Bespoke
  • Private
  • Small Group (1-16)

Languages

  • English

Themes

  • Castles
  • History
  • Landscapes

Tour Stops

Private tours Edinburgh Scotland

Tour company information

Private tours Edinburgh Scotland

Private Tours Edinburgh offers custom tours of Scotland with a professional guide on hand to give advice & information . Our four castles tours of Scotland including Stirling are five star rated . Outlander & Blood of my Blood tours to Lallybroch ( Midhope Castle ), Castle Leoch (Doune Castle) and other locations . Game of Thrones & James Bond tours. Tour the amazing scenery of Glencoe and the Highlands. Custom tours of Scotland .Shore excursions. Five star reviews . Private Tours Edinburgh distillery tours.Whatsapp +447305294773 for more details of special offers and availability

Opening times

10 am to 6 pm seven days a week
Text / Whatsapp customer services 24/7 on +44-7305-294773

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