
Loch Tay taster via the Trossachs & Highland Perthshire - short day tour #8
Loch Tay taster via the Trossachs & Perthshire Short day tour - departures from the Scottish Central belt 10 hour full day tour is £240 (if group of 8 is £30 per person), so a 5 hour half day tour works out £120 (if group of 8 is £15 per person)
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Loch Tay taster via the Trossachs & Highland Perthshire - short day tour
-stops and route along the way flexible and personalised depending on your preferences, interests, the weather and your tour start off pick up/drop off location
Loch Tay via the Trossachs & Highland Perthshire
Short day tour #8
click the link for more info/itinerary/tour details:
SD#8 - Loch Tay - via the Trossachs & Highland Perthshire - Short day tour - Unicorn Tours
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Sample routes/stops of a full day tour
On this short day tour we can select and visit a few of these
Stunning route outbound through the Trossachs nationalpark &
to Killin & the falls of Dochart
along the northside of Loch Tay to Kenmore & the Crannog centre
returning through scenic Perthshire – Aberfeldy, Grandtully, Dunkeld & Birnam, River Garry/Tummel with optional viewpoint walks.
We pass the Deanston distillery
which also runs guided tours.
Through Doune and past the historic Doune castle
which also featured as “Castle Leoch/home of the MacKenzie clan in the Outlander series” and was used as a historic backdrop to film Monty Python and others.
We leave the Lowlands behind and cross the Highland boundary.
Callander is the gateway to the Trossachs & you can go out exploring the Bracklinn falls or for a coffee and snack in Victorian Callander.
You may wish to visit Hamish and Moira the Hairy Coos at Kilmahog
we drive past the Falls of Leny
and then along to the shores Loch Lubnaig
or take a break at the cosy log cabin cafe at the Loch Lubnaig Forestry commission cabines
Rob Roy MacGregor, the famous clan chief of the local Clan MacGregor lies buried not far in Balquhidder
near Loch Voil
After having driven up spectacular Glen Ogle “Britain’s Khyber pass” we arrive at Killin & the falls of Dochart.
Scenic River Tay nature walk near Taymouth castle
Birks of Aberfeldy woodland waterfall walk
http://www.visitscotland.com/destinations-maps/perthshire/
http://www.visitscotland.com/about/wildlife/perthshire/
http://www.visitscotland.com/about/nature-geography/forests-woodlands/perthshire/
http://www.visitscotland.com/see-do/activities/walking/Perthshire
plus optional upgrade/extension from short day to full 1 day tour
- to have more time for the above itinerary
- or/and to include the very spectacular, but longer route through the Ben Lawers national nature reserve to include Glen Lyon,
A scenic drive through parts of the Ben Lawers national nature reserve
http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Ben-Lawers-National-Nature-Reserve/
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glenlyon/glenlyon/
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Prices for short day tours are proportionally based on the cost of a 10 hour full 1 day tour (see below),
- i.e. a short day tour of 5 hours will cost 1/2 of the 1 day tour price
- i.e. a short day tour of 3.3 hours will cost 1/3 of a the 1 day tour price
- and so on (1 hour is costing a 1/10 of the full 1 day 10 hour tour)
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Price for a full day tour
- 10 hour full day tour is £240
(if only 1 person = £240 for the tour / for a couple it is £120 per person / for 3 it is £80 per person / for a group of 4 is £60 per person / if 5 = £48 pp / if 6 = £40 pp / if 7 = £34 pp / for 8 passengers is £30 per person - these are the discounted winter prices up to February 2022)
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- Departures from the Scottish Central belt (Stirling, Falkirk, Dunfermline, etc. area & pick ups up to 1 hour drive away from our Alloa/Clackmannanshire base)
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Tourstyle:
- short distance multi-stop day tour allowing for some good free time, flexible activities, walking, castles, waterfalls, bens, lochs & glens, whisky and more
Is this the right tour for me?
Spectacular tour through Perthshire – “the heart of Scotland”From Stirling we have various scenic route options to Dunkeld, incl. via Sheriffmuir, Gleneagles,
Free time to wander around scenic Dunkeld, its cathedral, along the River Tay and its historic buildings
(Optional / short detour to visit of Pitlochry, its Victorian architecture, the dam visitor centre, the dam, fish ladder, the festival centre and the old mill)
before we drive through Aberfeldy, Kenmore and along Loch Tay to the waterfalls of Dochart in Killin.
Drive across Glenogle and along scenic Loch Earn to St Filans and Comrie with possible stops also at the prisoner of war museum or the Auchengarrich wildlife park.
Scenic mountain route back to Stirling & the Scottish Central belt.
(Depending on the weather the route might also be reversed or in case of wintry conditions on higher grounds, we might instead spend some time in the city of Perth instead or chose some alternative routes, in very mild and good conditions, this could possibly even incl. the stunning Glen Lyon – Ben Lawers route, etc.)
- How to enquire, book & pay
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At Unicorn Tours we offer over 45 one day and short day tours -personalised, flexible, private small group tours for up to 8 passengers:
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1 day tours (short) - Unicorn ToursPrice for short day tour:
- 5 hour half day short day tour is half the price of a 1 day tour
(or more if the tour is longer/or less if the tour is shorter)
(see 1 day tour prices below)
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Contact details
42 Bridge Terrace
Alloa
(* pick ups from anywhere in the Scottish Central belt & beyond. We are close to Stirling & its University, Falkirk & Dunfermline; * 45 minutes from Edinburgh, Glasgow & Perth; * just 1 hour from Dundee & St. Andrews)
Clackmannanshire
Scotland
FK10 1HY
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Unicorn Tours
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