Tours from Inverness · Run by Timberbush Tours
Loch Carron · Dunvegan Castle · Quiraing · Fort Augustus
Two days from Inverness with a night in Portree, the easiest way to see Skye properly.
Starting from Inverness puts Skye within easy reach, and two days gives you time to enjoy it. On the first day you cross the Highlands by Loch Carron to the Kyle of Lochalsh and over to Skye, visiting Dunvegan Castle (Neist Point in winter) and the Trotternish coast before the night in Portree. The second morning is the Fairy Pools, then lunch in Broadford, a visit to Eilean Donan Castle and a last stop at Fort Augustus on Loch Ness. It runs every day, in a small group of up to 19. Rooms aren't included, but the tour can book them for you.
Day by day, the places it stops at and the roads between. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
Day one
Where it starts
Railway Terrace, Inverness IV1 1NW
Leaves at 8am
A break
A photo stop
A break
A stop
The seat of the chiefs of MacLeod for 800 years, on a rock above Loch Dunvegan, with the Fairy Flag inside.
Castle entry optional; lunch in Dunvegan village
More about Dunvegan Castle (April–September; Neist Point in winter)
A photo stop
Britain's largest landslide, a jumble of rock towers and cliffs at the northern end of the Trotternish ridge on Skye.
More about Quiraing
A photo stop
Sea cliffs of dolerite columns like the pleats of a kilt, with Mealt Falls dropping to the sea beside them.
More about Kilt Rock
A photo stop
The River Lealt dropping through a gorge to the Sound of Raasay, seen from a viewing platform just off the A855.
More about Lealt Falls
A photo stop
A pinnacle about 50 metres high above Loch Leathan, two hours there and back on foot, seven miles north of Portree.
More about Old Man of Storr
The night
Skye's main town, on a sheltered east-coast bay, with a harbour built by Thomas Telford in the early nineteenth century.
More about PortreeDay two
A walk
Clear pools and falls under the Black Cuillin in Glen Brittle, 2.4 km there and back from the car park.
Walking boots advised
More about Fairy Pools
A photo stop
The Sligachan Hotel and the old stone bridge below the Cuillin, where the A87 meets the road to Dunvegan.
More about Sligachan and Sconser
Lunch
Skye's second village, strung along Broadford Bay under the Red Cuillin, a stop for fuel, food and the road south to Elgol.
More about Broadford
A stop
The castle on an island where three sea lochs meet, bombarded in 1719, rebuilt between 1912 and 1932 and reached by an arched stone bridge.
Entry optional
More about Eilean Donan Castle
A stop
The village at the southern end of Loch Ness, cut in two by the Caledonian Canal and its flight of locks, named after a fort built after 1715.
More about Fort Augustus, Loch Ness
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Railway Terrace
Railway Terrace, Inverness IV1 1NW
Leaves at 8am. Opens 15 minutes before departure and closes 5 minutes before.
Rooms are not in the price. Timberbush Tours can book them for you, paid on arrival; roughly:
Children aged 4 to 16 pay less; their price shows when you book.
Run by
Timberbush Tours has been taking visitors round Scotland since 1998. June and Gary Voy, a husband and wife team, started it with a single coach, and it now runs its own fleet, with driver-guides who have been with the company for years. Their tours leave every day from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness, and from Portree on Skye, and you book with them directly.
Timberbush Tours answer them, and you book with them directly.
2 days from Inverness, from £156 an adult.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before a day tour, and up to 7 days before a tour of several days, by Timberbush’s own terms.
Booked with Timberbush Tours, or call them on +44 (0)131 226 6066
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Urquhart Castle · Fort Augustus · Falls of Foyers · Dores Beach
Loch Ness without the long drive: a relaxed day out from Inverness, back by teatime.
About 2½ hours of it on the roadUp to 37 on a coach
From £51 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
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Eilean Donan Castle · Portree · Kilt Rock · Strome viewpoint
Skye in a day from Inverness: Eilean Donan, Portree and the Trotternish coast.
About 7½ hours of it on the roadUp to 37 on a coach
From £63 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
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Cawdor Castle · Dores Beach · Inverness · Glen Ord Distillery
Off the ship at Invergordon for Cawdor Castle, Loch Ness, Inverness and a distillery.
About 3 hours of it on the roadUp to 53 on a coach
From £75 an adult
Run by Timberbush Tours
