Their unique cultures and wild, unspoilt, often breathtaking scenery have long attracted travellers. Today, they still do. For although this is not quite the land that time forgot, it is a place where time is slowed and, distorted. Priorities are re-ordered.
Perspective is renewed.
Here, the interplay of land, sea, light, weather and people creates and recreates the possibilities for an endless journey of. delights and surprises. Although having some of the oldest rocks and human habitation in the world, the islands remain a frontier for undiscovered or long forgotten lifestyles, for the soul of Scotland, and for Europe's last great wilderness. Many travellers want to distance themselves from their usual lives - in the cliche, to get away from it all. They savour the quiet thrill of escaping by boat, and take time to enjoy the peace and the islands' rugged scenery. For the motorist or cyclist, there is hardly a road that does not offer great views.