Continue north through the Great Glen, an ancient valley which dissects Scotland in a great diagonal swathe from loch Linnhe to Inverness. Skirting the shores of Loch Lochy and Loch Oich, you are soon following the shoreline of what is arguably Scotland s most famous Loch, Loch Ness, famous of course as the home of the fabled Loch Ness monster. Pass the eerie ruins of Urquhart Castle and pass through the quaintly named village of Drumnadrochit. Continue to Inverness capital of the Highlands and the most northerly major city in Britain. Overnight in Inverness.
Dinner is provided tonight, along with full Scottish breakfast tomorrow morning.
Sunday August 5th - Aberdeen Depart Inverness in the morning and set off for Aberdeen. Our first stop this morning will be just outside of Inverness, at Culloden, site of the last battle to be fought on British soil. It was here in 1746 that Bonnie Prince Charlie s Jacobite forces were decimated by King George II s army and today the battlefield has been recreated to appear as it did in 1746. It was founded in 1224, but in 1390 it was burned by the Wolf of Badenoch. It was subsequently rebuilt but fell into disrepair after the Reformation.