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Tours from Skye · Run by Timberbush Tours
Old Man of Storr · Lealt Falls · Kilt Rock · Fairy Pools
The best of Skye in one day from Portree, from the Old Man of Storr to the Fairy Pools.
If you're staying on Skye and don't want to drive the single-track roads yourself, this is the day to book. It starts in Portree and heads up the Trotternish coast to the Old Man of Storr, Lealt Falls, Kilt Rock and the Quiraing, then walks through the Fairy Glen. In the afternoon you visit Dunvegan Castle, home of the MacLeods (or Neist Point when the castle is closed), and finish with a walk to the Fairy Pools below the Cuillin. It's a small group of 16 and runs from mid-March to October, back in Portree at 6.30pm.
The places it stops at, in order. Routes can change with the weather and the traffic.
The day
Where it starts
Somerled Square, Portree, Isle of Skye
Leaves at 8.30am
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
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
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
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 walk
Grassy hillocks and lochans above Uig, left by landslips after the ice, under a basalt crag called Castle Ewen.
More about Fairy Glen
A stop
The seat of the chiefs of MacLeod for 800 years, on a rock above Loch Dunvegan, with the Fairy Flag inside.
Entry optional; lunch stop
More about Dunvegan Castle and Gardens (Neist Point when the castle is closed)
A walk
Clear pools and falls under the Black Cuillin in Glen Brittle, 2.4 km there and back from the car park.
More about Fairy PoolsWhere it ends
Back at about 6.30pm
Photographs: Timberbush Tours
Somerled Square
Somerled Square, Portree, Isle of Skye
Leaves at 8.30am. Opens 15 minutes before departure and closes 5 minutes before.
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.
8.30am to 6.30pm from Portree, from £65 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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