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The reality in the thrill Travelling alone gives an awesome experience as it encourages your growth and freedom. It also allows you to make all decisions while you travel for yourself. You will be able to feel your environment better when alone than when your friends are around disrupting your…

Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival & Games The Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival and Games held between May 18th and 19th. It is the best chance to discover and appreciate the rich traditions and history of the Scottish and Scots-Irish settlers. You can find a wide variety of Scottish food and scotch….

The Museum In the National Museum of Scotland you will find artifacts from the age of dinosaurs to the technology of the future, the galleries contain treasures from around the world. From meteorites to monsters from the deep, the Natural World galleries tell the story of our planet, while the…

The GlenKinchie distillery is one of the six distilleries in the Lowland region. It is situated about 15 miles from Edinburgh and will take about 30 minutes by bus to get to. It lies, as the name might suggest, in a glen of the Kinchie Burn near the village of…

No visit to Edinburgh is complete without a trip to Arthur’s Seat. Arthur’s Seat is an extinct volcano and is the highest peak in Holyrood Park. This forms a unique historic landscape in the heart of the city, whose dramatic crags and hills give Edinburgh part of its distinctive skyline. Arthur’s…

Visit Cramond island You can visit Cramond Island in Edinburgh by foot because it’s connected to the mainland at low tide across the Drum Sands. A paved path, exposed at low tide, allows easy access. This causeway runs at the foot of a row of concrete pylons on one side…

While you are in Edinburgh, why not visit the Rosslyn Chapel where a scene from the Da Vinci Code based on the famous book by Dan Brown was filmed? According to legend, the treasure of the fabled Knights Templar is stowed in a still-deeper vault inside the Rosslyn chapel whose…

We used our local knowledge to create 5 great itineraries for a 3 days visit to Edinburgh using Inspirocks travel planner. Historic sights and nature This plan gives you a great introduction to the city on your first day with the excellent free walking tour from Sandemans after which you…

Want to get out of the city for the day and visit a stunning sea-side town with islands, rivers, glens, many many birds and a castle to discover AND that is less than an hour away from Edinburgh!?! How to get there There are 2 ways to get to North…