Your first stop, Mull, is an island of peaceful moorland glens and dramatic peaks, little crofting villages and home of clan McLean. Your tour coach will take you across the island to the port of Fionnphort to catch a boat to Iona. On the sacred isle of Iona you can see the Benedictine Abbey which is supposed to be built on the site of the original community established by St. Columba fourteen centuries ago. Return to Mull from Iona, and board your waiting motorcoach which will take you across by ferry to Oban. Overnight in Oban.
Dinner is provided tonight along with full Scottish breakfast tomorrow morning.
Saturday August 4th - Inverness Leaving Oban this morning, head north towards Fort William and the great bulk of Ben Nevis. 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.