Day Tours from Edinburgh
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Option 1: Day Tours of Edinburgh
City tours of Edinburgh, including an option of a walking tour of the Old Town.
This would include a short talk on the history of the City, from a vantage point where you are able to see the geographic and geological layout of the city.
Visits to specific attractions arranged as per customers’ choice.
Of course city tours could be shortened to include visits to surrounding areas.
Option 2: Western Borders
Options could include:
Rosslyn Chapel and Castle, Stobo (supposed burial place of Merlin the Wizard), Dawyck Botanical Gardens, town of Peebles, including Neidpath Castle, the Cross Kirk, the Chambers Centre and the John Buchan Centre, Kailzie Gardens, Traquair House (oldest inhabited house in Scotland) and the Robert Smail’s Printing works. Added to this could be the Devil’s Beeftub, Moffatt Woollen Mill and the Grey Mare’s Tail.
Option 3 – Central Borders
Options could include:
Rosslyn Chapel and Castle, Mining Museum at Newtongrange, town of Lauder and Thirlestane Castle, Scott’s View, the Wallace Statue, Smailholm Tower, Dryburgh Abbey, the town of Jedburgh with Abbey and Jail, Thomas the Rhymer’s Stone,
Melrose and the Abbey, Abbotsford House, Selkirk and the Lochcarron Woollen Mill, the beautiful Yarrow and Ettrick Valleys, St.Mary’s Loch and the equally beautiful Tweed Valley.
Option 4 – Eastern Borders
Options could include:
Mellerstain House, the town of Kelso and Floors Castle, the town of Coldstream (origin of the Coldstream Guards), Paxton House, the town of Berwick- upon-Tweed, the town of Duns and the Jim Clark Museum, the coastal route of Berwickshire including the fishing port of Eyemouth, St. Abbs, Coldingham Priory, Fast Castle, the Lammermuir Hills and the pretty village of Gifford.
Option 5 – East Lothian
Options could include:
Prestonpans Battlefield, the coastal route of Aberlady, Gullane, Dirleton Castle, Yellowcraig Beach, North Berwick and the Seabird Centre, (in summer boat trips out the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth), Tantallon Castle, Preston Mill, East Fortune Museum of Flight, the village of Athelstaneford (founding place of the National Flag of Scotland – the Saltire), Myreton Motor Museum, county town of Haddington, Lennoxlove House, the village of Gifford and the Glenkinchie Distillery. Also the John Muir Trail could be visited,which starts in the town of his birth, Dunbar.
Option 6 – Great Houses of S.E. Scotland
Options could include:
Hopetoun, Dalmeny, Arniston, Thirlestane, Mellerstain, Abbotsford, Bowhill, Floors, Paxton, Manderston, Gosford (only open on occasions to the public) and Lennoxlove.
Option 7 – Burns Trail of Ayrshire
Plus Culzean Castle and Dumfries House.
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Option 8 – Central Scotland
Options include:
New Lanark Industrial Heritage town, the Kelpies, Linlithgow Palace, Blackness Castle and the Falkirk Wheel.
Option 9 – Kingdom of Fife
Options include:
Town of South Queensferry, (boat trips can be arranged out into the Firth of Forth), Forth Road Bridge, 16th and 17th century town of Culross,
Aberdour Castle and Church, to the East Neuk and the seaside town of Elie, St. Monan’s with her fine church, the fishing villages of Pittenweem, Anstruther and Crail, the Bunker, and up to the auld grey toon of St.Andrews with her University, Castle and Cathedral, and the”Home of Golf”, together with her magnificent beach, and Falkland Palace.
Option 10 – Perthshire and Angus
Options include:
Perth, Scone Palace, Glamis Castle, the town of Kirriemuir (birthplace of J.M. Barry), the House of Dun, the town of Arbroath (site of the Declaration of Independence) and the sculptured stones at Meigle.
Option 11 – Stirling and West Perthshire and the Trossachs
Options include:
Stirling Castle, Dunblane and her Cathedral, Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Innerpeffray Museum, Crieff, Famous Grouse Distillery, Huntingtower Castle, the Sma’ Glen, Dunkeld, The Hermitage, Pitlochry and the Edradour Distillery, Aberfeldy, Castle Menzies,
Fortingall and Glen Lyon, Kenmore and the Crannog Centre, Loch Tay, Killin and the Falls of Dochart, Loch Earn, Balquidder and the grave of Rob Roy Macgregor, Bonny Strathyre, Callender, Doune Castle, Loch Katrine, Aberfoyle, Lake of Menteith and Inchcolm Abbey.
Option 12 – Loch Lomond and Argyll
Options include:
Past the City of Glasgow, the Erskine Bridge, Loch Lomond, Arrochar, “the Rest and be Thankful”, Loch Fyne, Inveraray Castle town and Jail, Loch Awe, Tyndrum, Crianlarich and back as per 11.
N.B. All the above short day tours of Scotland from Edinburgh are on the basis of starting and finishing in Edinburgh or district. Longer tours can start and finish from/to anywhere.
All days can be arranged according to customer requirement as to length, albeit the Loch Ness Tour is likely to take a minimum of 10 hours.
Costs include vehicle, and driver/guide only, and all meals and tourist attraction entrance fees are for the customers’ account.
1-8 passengers.