Storyteller Tours
Culloden, Loch Ness, Beauly Tour
A Shennachie’s Culloden, Loch Ness, Beauly Tour
8 Hour Tour
Leave Inverness: 08.30
Return Inverness: 17.30
Pick Up: Outside Highland House of Fraser Kilt and Dressmakers, 4-9 Huntly Street, Inverness, IV3 5PR. (On the North side of the bridge). For cruise ships: Invergordon port.
Standing Stone - Clava Cairns
Tour Schedule
Please note that the sequence and length of the stops can change if the weather is unfavourable. I try to keep you dry if possible, but it is Scotland!
First stop is Clava Cairns. This is a magnificent example of reverence for the dead in a civilisation from 2,000 to 6,000 years ago.
These cairns and the associated Standing Stone circles were ceremonially used but unfortunately the how’s and why’s can only be imagined by us today.
Next is Culloden Battlefield. Site of the last great battle and the end of the Highland way of life.
Culloden Battlefield
We then have a Loch Ness Photo Opportunity – Watch a Beastie whisperer call the Loch Ness Monster out for a wee £1M photograph.
I’ll tell you about the geological event of how the loch was created and how the beasties survived all this time, of scientists and enthusiasts who are still searching for Nessie. Also, a raft of other facts and legends including an introduction to the Legends of the Fae.
We will stop for a short walk down to the shores of Loch Ness, take some photos of the fantastic scenery and maybe even catch the monster hunting its breakfast.
Onwards to Urquhart Castle, on the shore of Loch Ness. Admire the military or financial setting of the castle, on a rocky promontory with an open outlook up and down Loch Ness which was the only way to travel when the castle was built.
Who fought over its ownership? Who destroyed it? (please note this is a viewpoint visit not a walk round the ruin which would eat up our time and incur entrance costs.)
Urquhart Castle
Beauly Priory
Now we climb over the Aird on to Beauly and visit the Monastery there which was robbed of much of its stonework to build Cromwell’s Citadel in Inverness.
On to the Glen Ord Distillery for a tour if we can book one, or a tasting at the bar and shop.
Now we move to the Clootie Well, an ancient tradition with origins back in time amongst the culture of the Fae we no longer understand but can still empathise with.