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Tour of the day20 hours ago

Jura Guided.

Guided walks on Jura with an islander, from a shore walk to the long day out to Barnhill and Corryvreckan.

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Did you know19 hours ago

From Glenmore in the Cairngorms, the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd's hill trip ends with a short session of feeding the reindeer by hand.

A herder leads the way on a walk of 20 to 40 minutes, depending on the time of year, until the group stands right among the herd, within a metre of the animals. Apart from the hand-feeding, the reindeer keep their personal space and do not like being stroked. From February to April the walk is steeper and trickier, and children under four cannot come. Dogs stay at home: to a reindeer they look like wolves.

See Cairngorm Reindeer Centre · Cairngorms
From the magazine19 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 06Issue 06Spring / Summer 2023

The wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin searched more than a million trees on Glen Tanar Estate, in Aberdeenshire, to find one golden eagle nest for the BBC.

Hamza, a Sudanese-British cameraman and presenter, was working on Wild Isles, the series presented by Sir David Attenborough. Only 20 pairs of golden eagles in the UK nest in trees, all of them in Scotland, and one of those pairs lives on the estate. While the birds gathered material for their nest, Hamza spent countless hours scanning the treetops through binoculars. After several days, a lot of caffeine and some methodical searching, the nest was found: a large eyrie, 1.5 metres deep, high in a Scots pine in a remote corner of the estate. That spring the female laid two eggs, and both chicks hatched.

Read the full story in Issue 06
Did you know18 hours ago

On the Isle of Canna in the Small Isles, the northern lights are often seen, and the islanders have named four places to watch the night sky.

The four are Coroghan Beach, the Sheep Fank and Tarbert, Sanday Beach, and St Edward's Church. The Milky Way is a common sight, even on late summer evenings. The community is applying to become a Dark Sky Sanctuary, and has bought equipment to run star-gazing tours. To see any of it, plan to stay the night on the island.

Quiz18 hours ago

In 1911 Henry Alexander took something to the summit of Ben Nevis, above Fort William, and brought it back down again. What was it?

From our collectionsA collection17 hours agoGlasgowWEST on the GreenGlasgowThe Clydeside DistilleryGlasgowGlengoyne Distillery Guided Tour & Whisky TastingGlasgowGlengoyne DistilleryGlasgowThe Mackintosh TearoomsGlasgowUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowTennent's Story Heritage Centre

Tours Worth Taking in Glasgow

Glasgow rewards being shown round by somebody who knows it, because so much of the best of it is behind a door. From distilleries and breweries to grand old buildings, these are the tours worth taking.

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From Issue 3 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 317 hours ago

Turning Point: Traveller’s Tales to Cape Wrath

Photographer Richard Gaston's 240-mile walk from Fort William to Cape Wrath, two and a half weeks through glens, bogs and remote beaches to the north-west tip of the mainland.

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Did you know16 hours ago

The Kintyre Way runs 161km, about 100 miles, from Tarbert in Argyll down the Kintyre peninsula to Machrihanish.

It is waymarked all the way and takes seven or eight days on foot. It passes Skipness Castle, Clachan, Tayinloan, the crossing to Gigha, Carradale and Campbeltown, and between Clachan and Tayinloan seals bask on the rocks. About a quarter is on tarmac, and most sections can be cycled. The last stretch, 16 miles from Southend to Machrihanish, is strenuous, with steep climbs, boggy patches and no facilities.

See Tarbert · Argyll and Bute
True or false16 hours ago

True or false: puffins stay at Scotland's seabird cliffs all year round.

From the magazine15 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 06Issue 06Spring / Summer 2023

After days of looking, the writer Ben Lerwill saw an Islay otter at dawn from the foot of the squat lighthouse north of Port Charlotte, on Loch Indaal.

Otters are notoriously hard to spot, and from a distance a rock, a diving cormorant or a seal's head can all make the heart skip. On his last morning on the island, Ben got up at 6.30am and went back to the spot where he had already spent hours with his binoculars. After about 20 minutes a silhouette skimmed past some fifty feet offshore. For the next half-hour the otter fished its way through the sea loch, at times tremblingly close, and dragged something long and spiny onto a rock to eat. Even on the days with no otter, as he puts it, 'on a Scottish island, there’s no such thing as nothing'.

Read the full story in Issue 06
Did you know15 hours ago

The Old Man of Storr drew 293,000 walkers in 2024, and the money from its car park now goes back into local roads.

Visitor numbers rose by 43 per cent between 2022 and 2024. To cope, the Highland Council opened Ionad an Stòir, the Storr Centre, in July 2024, with parking, toilets and a shop at the foot of the path. In its first year the site made a surplus of £450,296 after costs, and that money has gone into roads across the area.

See The Old Man of Storr · Isle of Skye
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