Spirit of Scotland Barge Cruise

Investigate with an Expert

Meet your private guide and transportation at your lodging and leave on an entire day visit through Scotland’s uneven capital, Edinburgh, established more than 1,200 years prior. Visit the notorious Edinburgh Castle, roosted on Castle Rock with an overwhelming position upon the memorable old town underneath. Walk the patio and find out about the noteworthy regal home from an external perspective prior to leaving your guide while you visit within the palace, where you can see the sumptuous insides and surprisingly the Crown Jewels. Make an independent visit to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Queen’s true home when she visits Edinburgh (subject to a conclusion when Her Majesty is in-home), getting information from your guide in the forecourt and nunnery prior to entering. Your day will likewise incorporate a visit to the prestigious Royal Yacht Britannia, home to Her Majesty The Queen for more than forty years.

See the Signature Sights in Style

Withdrawing with a private driver-direct, you’ll set out today for an entire day visit to St Andrew’s and its picturesque encompasses in the province of Fife. As a waterfront region 1.5 hours upper east of Edinburgh, fishing actually has a part here, at the end of the day, it is to St Andrews, Scotland’s most seasoned college town and the home of the world-popular Royal and Ancient Golf Club, that most guests are drawn. Walk the noteworthy old town, where two of the first archaic entryways are as yet flawless – the West Port, and the Sea Yett. See the most seasoned church in St Andrews, the Holy Trinity which dates to 1144, highlighting a wonderfully reestablished archaic outside. Visit the bluff top vestiges of the sixteenth century St Andrews Castle just as the staggering cemetery and remnants of the twelfth-century Cathedral of St Andrew. South of St Andrews, the small stone harbors of the fishing towns of the East Neuk – Anstruther, Crail, St Monans, and Pittenweem – are irrefutably engaging, and worth devoting some an ideal opportunity to as you visit this piece of Fife.

Lose Yourself in Nature

Withdrawing with a private driver-direct toward the beginning of today, move from Edinburgh to Inverness. As the capital of the Scottish Highlands, Inverness offers a plenitude of dazzling Highland view in transit; rough mountain ranges, tranquil lochs, and clearing vistas. En route, you’ll stop for a little while and visit through Blair Castle, the old seat of the Dukes and Earls of Atholl. Tracing all the way back to the thirteenth century, see more than 700 years of Atholl family ancestry become animated inside flawless eighteenth-century insides. The palace appreciates perhaps the best setting in the core of Highland Perthshire. A short time later, proceed forward to Inverness, making a stop on the way at either the Dalwhinnie or Tomatin Distillery for a small measure of whisky and a visit through the distillery. Please note the specific refinery visited will rely upon refinery opening timetables.

All Aboard!

With a get-up at your assigned gathering place, you’ll be moved as a little gathering to Banavie for your anticipating transport.

Welcome on board!

Set aside some effort to get gotten comfortable in your stateroom. A champagne invite will be trailed by an evening stroll before your first supper ready.

If it’s not too much trouble, note, your journey agenda is an example. It might work backward request, and perspectives are liable to change.

Sights and Insights

Your gathering outing today will take you to the supernatural space of Glencoe, renowned for its geological magnificence and renowned for one of the darkest days in Scottish history. Alternatively, you can appreciate some breath-taking all-encompassing perspectives on a trolley ride to the summit of Aonach Mor mountain. On the off chance that time grants, you can visit the remains of the thirteenth century, Old Inverlochy Castle, prior to setting out on your first voyage, through Moy Bridge, the last hand-worked connect of its type on the Caledonian Canal. En route, you may visit the Clan Cameron Museum, prior to intersection Loch Lochy. Drawing nearer the mooring at Laggan, a Highland Piper might be there to greet you with a mixing interpretation of customary Scottish music. Dinner on board.

Adventure into the Outdoors

On your journey today, take in probably the best view Scotland has to bring to the table as you drive to one of its most popular and most shot palaces, Eilean Donan, which has included in motion pictures, for example, ”Highlander” and James Bond’s ”The World Is Not Enough”, and ignores three ocean lochs. Your evening journey today heads across the grand Loch Oich, with the chance of getting a charge out of a walk-in transit, at that point onto a lovely securing at Kytra. Supper ready.

A Journey Back in Time

Today, journey to Fort Augustus and down the ”flight” as local people call it, to secure inverse the Benedictine Abbey at the passage to Loch Ness. Appreciate the time to investigate this lovely town prior to eating ready. Then, you’ll visit the private Highland Club, a breathtaking restrictive arrangement of homes, and a previous nineteenth-century Benedictine Monastery. Climate forthcoming, you’ll be blessed to receive falconry and flying predators exhibit on the banks of Loch Ness, the grandness of the dipping birds against the scenery of the broad Scottish Highlands a sight isn’t handily neglected. This evening you’ll appreciate supper shorewards at a neighborhood café.

Sustained by Nature

Toward the beginning of today, appreciate a beautiful voyage across world-popular Loch Ness, with maybe a possibility of spotting ”Nessie”, prior to securing at the village of Dochgarroch. After lunch, visit Cawdor Castle, everlastingly deified in Shakespeare’sMacbeth’. The pleasant nurseries have been recorded as being among the main 100 in the UK. The palace contains a heavenly assortment of embroidered works of art, pictures, and goods that are as yet being used as a permanent place to stay for the Dowager Countess of Cawdor who lives there for a while of the year. At that point, visit Culloden Moor, the location of the keep going significant fight on British soil in 1746, and end your visit at the Clava Cairns, a pre-notable faction clan leader entombment site tracing all the way back to 2,000 B.C. Supper ready.

Winding the Wind-Swept Shorelines

Today, your last voyage brings you through the Tomnahurich swing extension and afterward the locks to the Muirtown space of Inverness, where there will be the chance to take a bike ride or stroll to the ocean lock with brilliant perspectives over the Moray and Beauly Firths. After lunch, you’ll visit Culloden Moor, the location of the keep going significant fight on British soil in 1746. Proceed to the Muir of Ord refinery, established in 1838 by permit holders Robert Johnstone and Donald MacLennan. Appreciate an intriguing depiction of the developing and maturing cycle of their whiskies, each with its unmistakable attributes, trailed by our unique tasting of a few single malts. Experience a critical Captain’s Farewell Dinner ready.

On the Road Again

Earlier today you’ll land from your canal boat, saying goodbye to your commander and group as you make landfall.

Upon disembarkation, you’ll be moved by minibus back to your underlying gathering point.

Meet your private driver and vehicle for a move to Edinburgh. The rough travel time is 3 hours.

Bon Voyage

Meet your private driver and vehicle for an air terminal exchange.