The Queens View Pitlochry and the Sma Glen Panoramic Tour from St. Andrews
Saint Andrews, United Kingdom
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 8 hours
For this tour we will collect you from your accommodation, and driver north to in to the Hioghlands to the picturesque village of Pitlochry, and the lovely Edradour Distillery. After free time in the village over lunch time, we move on to the Queens View, and finally through the Sma' Glen, before heading back to your accommodation
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For this tour we will collect you from your accommodation, and driver north to in to the Hioghlands to the picturesque village of Pitlochry, and the lovely Edradour Distillery. After free time in the village over lunch time, we move on to the Queens View, and finally through the Sma' Glen, before heading back to your accommodationWe collect you from your accommodation, at a time based on your location. We will drive up passed Perth and Dunkeld arriving at Edradour just before 10am. Time will be given to take the whisky tour and to enjoy the setting, before heading in to Pitlochry
Pitlochry is a lovely highland town which was developed in Victorian times. Free time is given here to have lunch, talk a wander down by the river, where you maybe lucky to see a salmon or two leaping, or do some shopping.
We will travel the few miles north to the Queens View, a spectacular view point over Loch Tummel. Queen Victoria is said to have remarked that the spectacular view was named after her, when she visited the area in 1866. However, it has also been suggested that the view was in fact named after King Robert the Bruce’s wife, Queen Isabella of Scotland some 550 years yearly
We will once again board the minicoach doe our journey south, but this time through the Sma' Glen.
The fast flowing River Almond runs along the narrow valley floor and the glen itself, is rather small, at only 4 miles (6.5 km) in length. The Romans built a fort and watchtower here, and the glen featured in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
At the northern end of the Sma' Glen keep an eye out for Clach Ossian or Ossian's Stone, an 8 ft high monolithic stone sited where the river and the road almost touch. This is reputed to be the burial place, in about 300 AD, of the legendary Gaelic bard Ossian. He was the father of Fingal who was immortalised in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture.
From here, we will return to your accommodation
Pitlochry is a lovely highland town which was developed in Victorian times. Free time is given here to have lunch, talk a wander down by the river, where you maybe lucky to see a salmon or two leaping, or do some shopping.
We will travel the few miles north to the Queens View, a spectacular view point over Loch Tummel. Queen Victoria is said to have remarked that the spectacular view was named after her, when she visited the area in 1866. However, it has also been suggested that the view was in fact named after King Robert the Bruce’s wife, Queen Isabella of Scotland some 550 years yearly
We will once again board the minicoach doe our journey south, but this time through the Sma' Glen.
The fast flowing River Almond runs along the narrow valley floor and the glen itself, is rather small, at only 4 miles (6.5 km) in length. The Romans built a fort and watchtower here, and the glen featured in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.
At the northern end of the Sma' Glen keep an eye out for Clach Ossian or Ossian's Stone, an 8 ft high monolithic stone sited where the river and the road almost touch. This is reputed to be the burial place, in about 300 AD, of the legendary Gaelic bard Ossian. He was the father of Fingal who was immortalised in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave overture.
From here, we will return to your accommodation
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