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The tours
These nine are the tours people ask for most often. They are suggestions, not a menu — every one is a starting point rather than a script, and the stops, the order and the length of the day all move around the weather and around you.
The finest glen in Scotland, taken slowly — Dog Falls, the water at Affric before the wind gets up, and Plodda Falls on the way home.
From Inverness or Fort Augustus · All year, best in October
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The train everyone photographs, from the places the photographs are taken. A day that moves: one sighting at Glenfinnan promised, and two or three if you are quick back to the car.
From Fort William or Fort Augustus · June to late October
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Urquhart Castle in the first hour it opens, lunch and a walk at Dundreggan, and back up the single-track east shore that the coaches cannot use.
From Inverness or Fort Augustus · All year
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West until the road runs out, taken at its own pace — Glenfinnan before the car park fills, Arisaig, the white sands, and langoustines on the harbour at Mallaig. All year, and nothing to catch.
From Fort William or Fort Augustus · All year
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The single-track side of Loch Ness, which coaches cannot use and most hire cars will not. Foyers, the moor road, and Dores beach at the end of it.
From Fort Augustus or Inverness · All year
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The long way to Skye and a different road home — Glen Shiel, Eilean Donan, the Fairy Pools under the Black Cuillin, Talisker at Carbost, and back through Lochcarron and Achnasheen rather than the way you came.
From Inverness, Fort Augustus or Fort William · Best April to September
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The Bealach na Bà from sea level to the top in six miles of hairpins, a walk at the summit, and down the far side to the inn at Applecross for lunch on the shore. Back over the pass, or the long way round the coast.
From Inverness, Fort Augustus or Fort William · Best May to October
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Built around a ship’s day in port and run for anyone else who wants it — Corrieshalloch Gorge, the pink sand at Gruinard, Gairloch, and the old pinewood at Beinn Eighe, home over Glen Docherty. Twelve hours, and the clock is the point.
From Invergordon, Inverness or Fort Augustus · Best April to October
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Down the A82 into Glen Coe for the Three Sisters and the Kingshouse, then off it entirely — twelve miles of single track down Glen Etive to the sea, past the corner every Bond film crew has stood on. A waterfall first, if you fancy the climb.
From Fort Augustus or Fort William · Best April to October
Book this tourYou decide how long you spend anywhere. If the light is right at Affric we stay until it is not, and if a stop is doing nothing for you we leave early and give the time to somewhere better. Nothing on this page is a schedule, and none of it is priced by the stop.
Nor is this a list to choose from. Tell us what you actually want to see — a place you read about, somewhere you came as a child, a photograph you want to take at a particular hour — and we will build the day around it and tell you honestly whether it fits. These nine are simply the ones asked for most often. A day of your own is most of what we actually drive.
Every one of them can also start from any of the pick-up points; the line on each card is only where it makes most sense. If you are in Aviemore and want the Road to the Isles, say so and we will tell you what it does to the length of the day.
Pick-up
We are based in Dundreggan, up Glenmoriston, which puts Fort Augustus fifteen minutes away, Drumnadrochit thirty, Inverness fifty and Fort William an hour. Collection is from the door of wherever you are staying, at the hour we agreed.
The hour is a guide rather than a boundary. Aviemore is already beyond it at an hour and a half, because the road east goes around the Monadhliath rather than over.
Driving times from Dundreggan, not straight-line distances. The drive out to collect you is ours — it is not billed and it does not come off your day.
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Every day is quoted individually — party size, pick-up point and how far you want to go. Expect a reply from Dan within a working day, and a written itinerary before you pay anything.
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