Hebridean Adventure

From a morning pickup in your local area, we travel by coach to the Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport where we stay overnight on a bed and breakfast basis.

Hebridean Adventure

A day of scenic beauty awaits. Leaving the hotel, we travel north to the pretty port of Mallaig and get a first glimpse of what Skye has to offer as we board a ferry for the short trip across to Armadale on the striking Sleat Peninsula. We make our way across the Isle of Skye, enjoying the stunning scenery and rugged landscapes to Uig, where we catch the ferry to Lochmaddy. We continue on to our hotel on the Isle of Benbecula, our base for the next two nights.

Hebridean Adventure

Today’s island hopping begins by taking the causeway across to South Uist, where the west coast boasts a beautifully unbroken sandy beach in contrast to the east, which is dominated by mountainous peaks. We then continue on to Eriskay, famous for its Eriskay Ponies and also for being the real ‘Whisky Galore’ island. It was just off Eriskay, between Great Todday and Little Todday that the SS Politician ran aground in 1941 with 50,000 cases of whisky aboard. The locals managed to save several hundred cases before the ship sank, providing them with a good supply of their ‘Water of Life’.

From here, enjoy the short ferry crossing to the Isle of Barra, considered by many to be the most beautiful little island in Britain. Its tranquil beaches, distinctive culture, where Gaelic is widely spoken, and an ancient history make any visit to Barra a memorable one. If time allows, we also venture across the causeway to stunning Vatersay, the most southerly inhabited island in the Outer Hebrides.

Hebridean Adventure

After a leisurely morning in Benbecula, we collect a packed lunch and continue onwards to North Uist, a birdwatchers’ paradise. We board the afternoon ferry for the one-hour crossing to Harris before travelling up the west coast past numerous unspoilt, white sandy beaches and some of the most breathtaking scenery in the Western Isles. The final leg of today’s journey is to lovely Lewis and our hotel in Stornoway, where we stay for two nights.

Hebridean Adventure

The Isle of Lewis is the most northerly island in the Hebrides with a history that goes back thousands of years and where ancient standing stones can be found everywhere. We make the short journey over to the west coast and visit Callanish, home to an awesome collection of stone circles known as the Hebrides Stonehenge. Other sights on today’s excursion include the moorland interior where peat is still cut for fuel, traditional croft dwellings and Dun Carloway Broch, one of Scotland’s most well-preserved defensive structures dating back over 2,000 years.

Hebridean Adventure

Enjoy some time at leisure in Stornoway this morning, perhaps picking up some souvenirs, before we catch the ferry to Ullapool on the mainland and head to our overnight hotel.

Hebridean Adventure

We continue our journey, stopping in the historic city of Stirling, arriving back at the Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport where we stay overnight on a bed and breakfast basis.

Hebridean Adventure

After checking out of the hotel, we board the coach for our journey home.

Visit the otherworldly Callanish Standing Stones, a Late Neolithic circle often called the Hebrides’ Stonehenge. Walk among weathered Lewisian gneiss pillars as wind skims the moor and Atlantic light shifts across the stones’ dramatic silhouettes.

Continue to the Iron Age stronghold of Dun Carloway Broch, a remarkably preserved drystone tower. En route, pass peat-cut moorland and traditional blackhouse crofts that reveal how islanders shaped this landscape over millennia.

Explore North Uist, a birdwatchers’ paradise of tidal inlets, lochans, and shell-sand shores. Scan for hen harriers, waders, and the elusive corncrake while wandering flower-rich machair wildflowers backed by Atlantic dunes and lochans.

Learn how crofting traditions and gentle grazing sustain this rare habitat, creating spring and summer blooms that carpet the coast. Quiet lay-bys offer time to frame wide horizons and the island’s wide skies and salt-sweet air in your photos.

Discover Harris’s Atlantic edge on a coastal drive past the luminous sands of Luskentyre and Seilebost. Gaze over turquoise shallows and silver beaches framed by rugged hills, a canvas of unforgettable mountain-and-sea vistas.

Hear how ancient gneiss bedrock and crofting townships define this landscape, and how the islands’ looms still power the renowned Harris Tweed heritage. Short photo pauses reveal shifting light, wind-combed grasses, and seabirds skimming the surf.

Journey across Skye from the Sleat Peninsula to Uig, tracing sea lochs, glens, and the dark silhouettes of the Cuillin ridge. Windows frame sea lochs and heather moor as the road curls past crofting townships and rocky inlets.

Learn how Norse and Gaelic place-names echo Skye’s layered past while the island’s geology rises in misty mountain passes. Occasional viewpoints offer time to absorb the changing light over cliff edges, skerries, and distant isles.

Cruise from Mallaig to Skye and sail the Sound of Sleat, with the Sleat Peninsula and mainland peaks sliding by as gulls wheel above the wake. Open decks invite sea air and views toward Knoydart’s rugged hills.

Later, cross the Little Minch crossing from Uig to Lochmaddy, watching for seabirds and distant isles as the Minch opens wide. On this route, dinner served on board adds a warming Highland flavour to a classic sea passage.

Cruise the broad strait of The Minch from Stornoway to Ullapool, a sea road long used by traders, crofters, and mariners. From the deck, scan for gannets, spot dolphins and porpoises, and watch Hebridean light play across open water.

As the mainland draws near, the Summer Isles scatter across the horizon and the mountain silhouettes of Assynt rise inland. It’s a serene crossing that frames the wild northwest in sweeping, cinematic views.

Discover Stirling’s storied heart, where cobbled lanes climb toward Stirling Castle and skyline views take in the National Wallace Monument. Stroll the medieval core and sense the strategic power of this rocky outcrop above the River Forth.

Hear of the Wars of Independence and monarchs who shaped Scotland from this gateway between Highlands and Lowlands. Quiet viewpoints invite a pause for photos and reflection over battlements, kirks, and the winding old town.

Explore the chain of the Southern Isles on a guided island-hopping excursion, crossing causeways to South Uist’s sweeping Atlantic sands before continuing to Eriskay, home to the gentle Eriskay Ponies. Sail onward to Barra, where turquoise bays and a proud Gaelic culture shape everyday life around Castlebay’s harbour.

Hear the tale of Whisky Galore, when the SS Politician ran aground in 1941, and admire sea views to Kisimul Castle, the “castle in the sea”. If time allows, venture across the causeway to Vatersay to stroll its twin beaches divided by a narrow isthmus.