Haste Ye Back

Our Route & Itinerary

Route

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

Itinerary
Day One

Edinburgh

  • Edinburgh Castle
  • Scott Monument
  • Victoria Street & hot choccy from Knoops
  • Greyfriars Kirkyard & Voldemorts Grave
  • Dinner at The Witchery by the Castle

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

TRAVEL DATEs
Day Two

Edinburgh → Glencoe

  • Breakfast at the Edinburgh Larder
  • Cockburn Street
  • Midhope Castle, e.g., "Lallybroch"
  • Blackness Castle
  • Linlithgow Palace
  • Rannoch Moor
  • Wee White House
  • Dinner at Ballachulish Hotel

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

Itinerary

Day three

Glenfinnan & Glencoe

  • Eilean na Moine & Dumbledore's Grave
  • Glenfinnan Viaduct
  • Loch Shiel & Glenfinnan Memorial
  • The Highland Soap Company
  • Old Inverlochy Castle
  • Braveheart Village
  • Lunch at Crafts & Things
  • Clachaig Gully & Hagrid's Hut
  • Glen Etive
  • Dinner at The Holly Tree Hotel

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

TRAVEL DATES


Day four

Glencoe → Isle of Skye

  • Breakfast at Costa Coffee
  • Loch Cluanie
  • Sligachan Old Bridge
  • Quiraing
  • An Corran Beach
  • Kilt Rock
  • Lealt Falls
  • The Storr
  • The Fairy Glen
  • Lunch at The Galley in Uig
  • Portree
  • Dinner at Cuillin Hills Hotel

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

Itinerary
Day Five

Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

  • Breakfast at Cuillin Hills Hotel
  • Eilean Donan
  • Loch Ness
  • Culloden Battlefield
  • Fort Augustus
  • Dinner at Crannog at Garrison West

1. Edinburgh

2. Edinburgh → Glencoe

3. Glenfinnan & Glencoe

4. Glencoe → Isle of Skye

5. Isle of Skye → Culloden → Loch Ness

6. Glencoe → Edinburgh

Itinerary
Day six

Glencoe → Edinburgh

  • Falls of Falloch
  • Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
  • Stirling Castle
  • The National Wallace Monument
  • Dinner at The Scran and Scallie

Day One: Edinburgh

Edinburgh Castle, Victoria Street, Greyfriars Kirkyard

Edinburgh Castle from the Fennel Viewpoint

Edinburgh Castle's cemetery for royal dogs, which acts as the final resting place for honored canine companions of the regimental officers.

Victoria Street

Scotland's national animal, the unicorn: a symbol of purity, innocence & power in Celtic mythology.

Victoria Street

Tom Riddle's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard, the inspiration for Harry Potter's own Voldemort.

Day Two: Edinburgh → Glencoe

Midhope castle, Blackness Castle, Linlithgow Palace, Rannoch Moor

Midhope Castle, more famously known as "Lallybroch" from the TV series, Outlander.

Blackness Castle

Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots

The light from Linlithgow's Royal Chapel

Rannoch Moor, Glencoe

Wee White House, Glencoe

Day Three: Glenfinnan & Glencoe

Harry Potter's Scotland

Dumbledore's Grave, Eilean na Moine

Loch Shiel and the Glenfinnan Monument, built as a tribute to "the generous zeal and undaunted bravery" of those Highlanders who "fought and bled in that arduous and unfortunate enterprise" – the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

Loch Shiel, the backdrop of Hogwarts in several of the films and the Black Lake in The Prisoner of Azkaban and The Half-Blood Prince.

Glenfinnan Viaduct, the iconic site of the Jacobite Steam Train, most famously known as the Hogwarts Express.

The site of Hagrid's Hut, Glencoe

Glencoe | Braveheart's Scotland

Glen Etive, Glencoe | Skyfall's Scotland

This vantage point in Glen Etive was made famous from the movie, Skyfall.

Wee White House, Glencoe

Day Four: Glencoe → Isle of Skye

Panorama of the sunrise over Loch Cluanie and Bun Loyne

Roadtrip pancakes

Isle of Skye

Sligachan old bridge, Quiraing, kilt rock, lealt falls, Storr, the fairy glen

Entering Isle of Skye

The Old Man of Storr from afar

Sligachan Old Bridge, Isle of Skye

The welcome committee of Quiraing

The sheep of Quiraing

Quiraing

Panorama of Quiraing

Leaving Quiraing

Kilt Rock

View from Lealt Falls

View from Storr

Along the hike to the Old Man of Storr

The Fairy Glen, Uig, Isle of Skye

Uig | Sunset

The most beautiful hydrangea

Uig Bay, Isle of Skye

Day Five: Portree → Glencoe

Sunrise from Cuillin Hills Hotel

Sunrise from Cuillin Hills Hotel

Sunrise from Cuillin Hills Hotel, Portree, Isle of Skye

The colorful houses of Portree

Morning on Portree Bay, Isle of Skye

Eilean Donan Castle

Panorama of Eilean Donan Castle, Kyle of Localsh

Last Day/Day Six: Glencoe → Edinburgh

"Woven Sound" at Falls of Falloch

Falls of Falloch, Trossachs National Park

"Woven Sound" at Falls of Falloch

Stirling Castle, our favorite castle of the seven we visited.

The National Wallace Monument from Stirling Castle

Circus Lane, Edinburgh

Film Dump