While travel might be limited these days, discovering incredible experiences from across Scotland doesnโt have to be. At Tour Skye we are bringing our top tours, activities, and attractions to you.
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Loch Coruisk is an inland fresh-water loch, lying at the foot of the Black Cuillin in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands. It is reputed to be the home of a kelpie or water horse, a shape-shifting creature that can assume human form.
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The mountains of Glencoe are built from some of the oldest sedimentary and volcanic strata in the world. They were subsequently moulded, sheared and repositioned by a geological event known as a 'cauldron subsidence' 380 million years ago.
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Book your 2-day Inverness to Skye Tour for this Summer. We'll take you to the most spectacular places on the Isle of Skye: Fairy Pools, Fairy Glen, Neist Point, just to name a few.
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The filming of Harry Potter and the Chambers of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban took place in this area with the Hogwarts Express calling at Glenfinnan!
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This magical location has been given the name Fairy Glen to explain its unusual landscape. Jutting up from the small hills stands what looks like a ruin but is really a basalt rock formation. Funnily enough, it has a name: Castle Ewan.
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On the foot of the Five Sisters is located the site of the Battle of Glen Shiel, which took place on 10 June 1719, opposing British government troops and an alliance of Jacobites and Spanish, resulting in a victory for the first.
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Doune Castle was used as a film location for the BBC production of Ivanhoe and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Doune Castle was also used in the award winning TV series Game of Thrones, as well as Castle Leoch in Outlander.
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Did you know that Eilean Donan Castle was partially destroyed in a Jacobite uprising, and laid in ruins for the best part of 200 years? Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap bought the island in 1911 and proceeded to restore the castle to its former glory? It re-opened in 1932.