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Country Roads of Scotland

9 Days

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Tour Description

You begin on Edinburgh Castle’s esplanade, home of the Military Tattoo, before wandering St Andrews’ cobbled streets and enjoying cream tea at Atholl Palace, with the buttery sweetness of scones adding to your memories of Scotland. Travel north into the Highlands and on to Wick, where your choice experience takes you to Old Pulteney Distillery for a wee dram that warms the tongue. On Orkney, you explore Kirkwall’s 1,000-year-old Norse roots and stand among the ancient stones of the Ring of Brodgar, before sailing across open water to Skye, watching the island rise from the sea among the Inner Hebrides. Your journey ends in Glasgow, among its grand Georgian façades.

Priced From:

$ 8225pp *

From: 2027-04-10

To: 2027-09-27

Start Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

End Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Trip Type: Country Roads

Tour Advisors

Beccy Hayes

Travel Specialist

Tiffany McCrea-Lennon

Managing Director

Russell Mein

Travel Specialist

Caitlin Lennon

Travel Coordinator

Gaylyn Murdoch

Administration Manager

Holly Skene

Travel Co-ordinator

Kim Thomas

Broker

Itinerary

Arrive in Edinburgh
Day 1
Duration: 1
Accommodation: Malmaison Edinburgh, Leith
At a local restaurant, you’ll join your Travel Director for dinner, catching the scent of something rich and savoury as the first plates arrive. On select departures, you take your seat on Edinburgh Castle’s esplanade for The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Pipes pierce the evening air before drums roll through the grandstand while Highland dancers cross the arena and military performers march beneath the floodlit fortress as colour washes over the castle walls.
Discover Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile
Day 2
Duration: 1
Accommodation: Malmaison Edinburgh, Leith
With your Local Specialist, you trace Edinburgh from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the King’s official Scottish residence, to the long sweep of Princes Street. The Scott Monument stands in dark, ornate stone before you continue through the 18th-century New Town, its neoclassical Georgian buildings arranged in graceful rows. You climb the Royal Mile to Edinburgh Castle, crossing the stone threshold to stand beside Mons Meg’s great iron barrel and the polished gleam of Scotland’s Crown Jewels. Afterwards, you can follow your own curiosity, perhaps pausing before a painting that catches your eye in the National Gallery. Later, you can partake in a Scottish cultural dinner, taste peppery haggis and join the turning steps of a ceilidh.
Fife and Beyond: Coast to Highlands
Day 3
Duration: 1
Accommodation: Kingsmills, Inverness
Crossing the Firth of Forth into Fife, you’ll travel north to St Andrews. You pass the Old Course, where golf has been played since the 15th century. From there, you might stop at St Andrews University, where the Prince and Princess of Wales first met, or listen to the surf break along West Sands, where the famous running scene from Chariots of Fire was filmed. At the Victorian Atholl Palace and Gardens, you split a warm scone, spoon over cool cream and jam before savouring each sweet mouthful. You’ll continue through Blair Atholl and past the Grampian Mountains towards the Spey Valley, watching wooded slopes fall towards the River Spey in the heart of Scotland’s whisky country.
Loch Ness to Wick: Legends and History
Day 4
Duration: 1
Accommodation: The Pentland, Thurso
Following the shore of Loch Ness, you watch its dark water stretch beneath the Highland hills, every unexpected ripple making you wonder what moves below. At Culloden, you walk across the open moor where Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army was defeated in 1746, passing clan markers before the Visitor Centre’s artefacts and immersive battle theatre recreate the devastating final clash. In Wick, your choice experience might lead you among the copper stills and oak casks of Old Pulteney Distillery before you lift a wee dram to your lips. Alternatively, during a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience at Wick Heritage Museum, you explore old photographs, furnished rooms and fishing displays as local voices recall the herring boats that once crowded the harbour.
Sail to Orkney and Explore Its Past
Day 5
Duration: 1
Accommodation: The Pentland, Thurso
As the ferry cuts towards Orkney, low green islands spread across the horizon. With your Travel Director, you follow stone-edged roads to the Italian Chapel, where two joined wartime huts are lined with painted brickwork, soft colour and delicate metal screens. In Kirkwall, you’ll move through an old Norse town before the road unwinds towards Skara Brae. Here, you look into 5,000-year-old homes, their stone beds, dressers and hearths still resting beside the sea. At the Ring of Brodgar, you walk between weathered stones as the wind presses through the grass and the great circle stretches beneath the open Orkney sky.
Scotland’s Far North: Wick to Skye
Day 6
Duration: 1
Accommodation: The Dunollie, Broadford
Along Scotland’s northern coast, you’ll follow white beaches beneath low hills while burns rush over dark rock beside the road. Further inland, mist may drift through the glens and over the lochs before you cross to Skye, the largest island of the Inner Hebrides. On the way to Broadford, you hear how young Flora MacDonald helped Bonnie Prince Charlie evade capture and reach the island after Culloden. The Cuillin’s jagged ridges cut into the sky ahead, dark against the light and dwarfing the land below.
Cross from Skye into the Highlands
Day 7
Duration: 1
Accommodation: Ballachulish, Glencoe
With Skye yours to explore, you may follow heather-fringed roads until the sea flashes between the hills. Crossing to Kyle of Lochalsh, you pause at Eilean Donan Castle, its towers poised above three sea lochs and mirrored in the water below. At the Commando Memorial, bronze soldiers face the Highlands as you gaze up at Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain. In Glencoe, a ranger leads your MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience through this rare ecosystem, sharing how its fragile habitats are protected and lost native species are being reintroduced. Market-fresh Scottish ingredients and wine fill the dinner table as you dine with your fellow travellers. Perhaps you raise a glass during ‘Toasting to the Lassies’ or lend your voice to ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as the room joins in.
Scotland’s Lowlands: Loch Lomond and Glasgow
Day 8
Duration: 1
Accommodation: Radisson Blu, Glasgow
Beside Loch Lomond, you trace its broad expanse between wooded banks and distant hills, the landscape Sir Walter Scott named the ‘Queen of Scottish Lochs’. You may choose an Optional Experience on the loch, listening to the low hum of the boat and water brushing the hull as the shoreline slips by. In Glasgow, you pass the grand sandstone buildings of George Square before the pointed arches and time-darkened stone of St Mungo’s Cathedral. With the afternoon free, perhaps follow the scent of roasting coffee into a cafe or wander beneath the city’s carved stone frontages.
Say Farewell to Scotland in Glasgow
Day 9
Duration: 1
With Scotland’s lochs, glens and stone-built cities still fresh in your memory, you'll transfer to the airport.

Dates & prices

Start Date: 2027-04-10
End Date: 2027-04-18
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Adult Price: 8975
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Adult Price: 9265
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Adult Price: 10585
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End Date: 2027-09-21
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Adult Price: 8225
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Adult Price: 8515
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Adult Price: 8975
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triple
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Adult Price: 9265
single
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Adult Price: 10585
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End Date: 2027-09-28
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Adult Price: 8225
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