Vacation Scotland

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 [...]

The Trotternish Peninsula in the north of the Isle of Skye is a Tolkienesque world of ridges, pinnacles and plateaux; a staccato terrain that forms a stunningly beautiful landscape. At the north end of the peninsula, as it juts out into the sea facing the broad horizons of the Western Isles beyond, is the Cuithraing, [...]

25,000 years ago Scotlandwas buried under a huge ice-cap over 4000ft thick; and as it slowly flowed towards the oceans the action at the base ground away nearly everything in its path, carving through the bedrock. As the ice moved down the Forth valley it reached an immovable object: Edinburgh Castle Rock; a tough plug [...]