• 6 Dinner (D)
• 8 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Afternoon Tea (AT)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• Premium regional accommodation

• Edinburgh: Enjoy a relaxing dinner at a local restaurant and get to know your fellow travellers. 
• Pitlochry: Atholl Palace, built as a Victorian Baronial retreat over 130 years ago, hosts your afternoon tea. You’ll be welcomed into the banqueting room to enjoy a traditional afternoon tea accompanied by sandwiches, scones, Scottish shortbread and traditional Scottish tablet.
• Glencoe: Your adventure culminates with a wonderful evening enjoying the best Highland hospitality and market-fresh ingredients.

• Wick: Visit the highly rated Wick Heritage Museum to gain a full picture of this once thriving fishing community and how your visit helps keep the story of this town alive. The Wick Society is committed to preserving and promoting Wick’s proud heritage for the inspiration of future generations. They collect, collate and display the many artefacts that tell the history of Wick and their community ethos is one of welcome and sharing. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities. 
• Wick: Share a wee dram with a master distiller during a whisky tasting.

Experience the spectacle of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo on the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, where massed pipes and drums, precision drill teams and Highland dancers perform beneath a floodlit fortress. Feel the skirl of the pipes carry across the night as patterns of tartan, sound and light unfold in the open air.

Staged each August, this world-renowned event blends military ceremony with contemporary choreography and fireworks. Seats are included on select August departures, placing you at the heart of Scotland’s most stirring summer tradition.

Explore St Andrews, a sea-breezed university town of cobbled lanes and medieval ruins. Gaze across the Old Course, a pilgrimage ground for golfers, and stroll the dune-backed West Sands Beach, where Chariots of Fire filmed its iconic opening.

Absorb the scholarly atmosphere of quadrangles dating to 1413 and admire stone fragments of the once-mighty cathedral. As the birthplace of modern golf, St Andrews weaves sport, learning and North Sea light into a uniquely Scottish coastal scene.

Taste tradition with a traditional afternoon tea served in the grand surroundings of Atholl Palace, a Victorian baronial retreat overlooking landscaped gardens. Tiered stands arrive with warm scones, jam and cream, delicate sandwiches and buttery Scottish shortbread.

Savour the unhurried ritual as you admire period details and Highland views. This elegant pause echoes the era of railway excursions and Highland holidays, where hospitality and conversation were enjoyed at a genteel pace.

Trace the shores of Loch Ness as dark waters stretch beneath misty Highland hills. Photo stops reveal shifting light on the loch’s long, glacial corridor and quiet pebbled bays framed by pines and heather.

Hear tales of the legendary Loch Ness Monster while learning how the Great Glen geological fault carved this dramatic landscape. The result is a brooding, beautiful waterway whose scale, depth and folklore captivate in any weather.

Walk the Battlefield of Culloden, where the Jacobite cause met its fate in 1746. Among heather and wind-tossed grass, clan stone markers commemorate the fallen, inviting a moment of reflection.

In the award-winning Visitor Centre, an immersive battle theatre and artefacts illuminate the Jacobite Rising of 1745–46 and its consequences for Highland life. This moving encounter connects the quiet moor to the human stories that forever changed Scotland.

Explore the volunteer-run Wick Heritage Museum, a labyrinth of galleries where sepia photographs, fishing gear and furnished rooms bring the herring boom era to life. Hear how the harbour once thronged with drifters and cooperages bustled with barrels.

Guided by a community-led museum, discover how Caithness folkways, craftsmanship and resilience shaped this far-north town. This is an included choice in Wick; selecting it supports the ongoing preservation of Caithness heritage.

Join a master for a guided whisky tasting at the storied Old Pulteney Distillery. Tour gleaming copper pot stills, inhale warm malt aromas and learn how maturation by the coast shapes the spirit’s character.

Sample drams famed for their subtle salinity and toffee notes—the signature of a true maritime malt style rooted in Wick’s seafaring past. This is an included choice in Wick; select it for a flavoursome window into Highland craft.

Explore Orkney’s layered history, stepping inside the hand-painted Italian Chapel, a place of wartime devotion built by POWs. Wander through Kirkwall’s Norse-flavoured streets before travelling to the Neolithic village of Skara Brae, its stone beds and hearths revealed by Atlantic storms.

Walk among the great stones of the Ring of Brodgar, part of the UNESCO-listed Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The sense of time and sea-lit space here makes these islands a rare encounter with deep human past.

Explore the Isle of Skye, where sea lochs cut into heathered slopes and the serrated Cuillin Hills rise like a dark skyline. Pause in the harbour village of Broadford and watch tides shift beneath distant peaks.

Skye’s stories blend geology and Jacobite legend—hear of Flora MacDonald’s daring aid to Bonnie Prince Charlie and learn how island life is shaped by weather and water across the wild Inner Hebrides.

Pause to photograph Eilean Donan Castle, an island fortress poised where three sea lochs meet. Its stone bridge, turrets and tidal reflections create a scene that defines the romance of the Highlands.

Originally a 13th-century stronghold and sensitively restored in the 20th century, this emblematic landmark rewards every angle—especially when soft weather lights the water at the meeting of three sea lochs.

Visit the hillside Commando Memorial near Spean Bridge, where bronze figures face the mountains in silent tribute. From here, take in a sweeping view towards Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest peak.

Learn how elite WWII units trained in these rugged glens and why this vantage remains a place for remembrance and contemplation. The stark Highland panorama underscores the endurance demanded by both landscape and history.

Join a ranger-led walk through the Valley of Glencoe to discover how fragile habitats are protected and restored. Learn to spot rare alpine flora, mosses and signs of red deer while keeping an eye out for soaring eagles.

Hear of volcanic origins and cultural memory—from clan life to the 1692 tragedy—while your visit supports ongoing habitat restoration and the return of native species. Conservation and storytelling combine in Scotland’s most storied glen.

Spend time by the shores of Loch Lomond, where wooded islands dot mirrored water and paths weave beneath oak and birch. Capture shifting reflections and distant hills in this tranquil corner of the Highlands.

Within The Trossachs National Park and celebrated as the Queen of Scottish Lochs, Loch Lomond rewards a gentle wander and a quiet pause—pure Scotland distilled into light, water and forested shoreline.

Take a guided orientation through Glasgow’s grand boulevards and sandstone facades, pausing in George Square to admire statues and civic pride. Step into the time-darkened nave of St Mungo’s Cathedral, a masterpiece of Scottish Gothic.

From shipyards to design studios, discover how industry and creativity forged the city’s character. The sweep of Victorian architecture frames a story of reinvention that continues to energize Scotland’s largest city.

Cruise Loch Lomond to see wooded isles, sheltered bays and mountain silhouettes from the water. Glide across wooded islands and listen to live commentary on local wildlife, folklore and clan history as the loch opens around you.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour, offering relaxed views of mountain-framed water and ample time for photos in Scotland’s beloved national park.

Enjoy a Scottish cultural dinner featuring local flavours—think haggis, neeps and tatties—paired with music and stories. As the pipes strike up, join in lively ceilidh dancing with easy, caller-led steps.

This is an optional experience at additional cost, bookable on tour. Hosts share toasts, humour and song, creating an evening that blends Highland warmth with spirited tradition.

Insight Vacations

Discover the capital on a guided panoramic tour, travelling along Princes Street past the dark spire of the Scott Monument, through the graceful Georgian avenues of the New Town, and by the royal gates of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Continue up the historic Royal Mile to the castle crowning volcanic Castle Rock.

Inside Edinburgh Castle, view the Scottish Crown Jewels and the mighty medieval cannon Mons Meg. From the ramparts, look across rooftops to the Firth of Forth as your Local Specialist brings centuries of Scottish power, pageantry and resilience into focus.