The Great North Road, the A9 Highway slices northwards into the Highlands at Dunkeld and then follows the Rivers Tay and Tummel to Pitlochry before reaching a formidable barrier at Killiecrankie. For centuries the narrow gorge and steep mountain slopes looming large above have provide an engineering challenge for any road builder carving a route [...]
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Outlandish Adventures
February 7, 2011
Our Outlandish Adventure tour is an eight-day romp based on the hugely successful Outlander Books series written by Diana Gabaldon. In it we combine fiction with fact as we draw the traveler back in time to the world of the Jacobite Rebellions of the 18th century, and walk in the footsteps of our heroes, Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser. The tour weaves its way from the turrets and towers of Edinburgh to the wild Highlands, and visits the key places found in the books – a time-travelling quest that shows how modern Scotland was born amid the blood and romance of the Jacobite Civil Wars












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