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The Black Isle
Inverness, The Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom
$893.23
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Overview
The Black Isle offers breathtaking views and rich history along a stunning peninsula nestled between the Moray and Cromarty Firths. This eight-hour tour promises an unforgettable journey through Scotland's natural beauty and cultural heritage.
- 🏞️ Visit the Clootie Well, an ancient site dedicated to St Boniface where visitors tie a cloth to a tree, symbolizing healing for those who are ill.
- ⛪ Explore the historic Fortrose Cathedral, dating back to around 1300, and learn about its fascinating history, including its decline after the Reformation.
- 🐬 Enjoy stunning views of Chanonry Point, renowned for spotting Bottle-Nosed Dolphins in the Moray Firth, with a lighthouse and Fort George in the backdrop.
- 🏺 Discover the Groam House Museum in Rosemarkie, home to remarkable Pictish art and the George Bain Collection, showcasing intricate Celtic designs.
- 🌊 Experience the enchanting Fairy Glen Falls, a site steeped in legends and natural beauty, known as a fairy haunt in local folklore.
- ⚓ Visit Cromarty, a historic fishing town with a rich naval history, featuring the birthplace of geologist Hugh Miller and the striking Sutors of Cromarty headlands.
- 🚢 Marvel at the Cromarty Firth, praised as one of Europe’s finest deep-water natural harbors, significant for both historical naval operations and contemporary shipping.
- 🚐 Enjoy private transport throughout the journey, ensuring comfort and convenience while exploring the sights.
- 🗣️ Benefit from live commentary provided by your professional guide, enriching your understanding of each location visited.
- 🍽️ Lunch is included, allowing you to savor local flavors while on your adventure.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
The Black Isle (1-3)
The Bonnie Black Isle is, on a bright summers day, not black. Nor, on any other day is it an island. Bonnie (Scots for beautiful).
Pickup included
The Bonnie Black Isle is, on a bright summers day, not black. Nor, on any other day is it an island. Bonnie (Scots for beautiful).
Pickup included
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 8 hours
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Transport by private vehicle
- Live commentary on board
- Driver/guide
- Live entertainment
- Professional guide
- Hotel/port pickup
- Hotel/port drop-off
- Private tour
- Lunch
- Gratuities
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Clootie WellThis ancient site is dedicated to St Boniface. The tradition of tying a cloth or "clootie" to a tree after dipping it in the well signifies that the patient, from whom the cloth has been taken, lying ill at home, will, as the cloot dries out, be relieved of the suffering from which he, or she, is afflicted.
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Fortrose CathedralThe cathedral dates to around 1300. Not popular after the Reformation in 1560 services ceased at Fortrose. In the 1650s the stone from the now roofless and decaying nave and choir were removed. This, the Priory at Beauly, and other sacred sites were savaged, barges of stone transported to Inverness to build Oliver Cromwell's Citadel, reportedly costing £1,000 per barge, a huge amount of money in those times.
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Chanonry PointChanonry Point is a spit of land extending into the Moray Firth between the villages Fortrose and Rosemarkie. It is regarded as probably the best viewpoint to see Bottle-Nosed Dolphins. They, who make these waters home is reputedly the biggest of their kind in the world. A Stevenson lighthouse stands guard over the narrows here and across the Firth, starkly visible, is the garrison Fortress of Fort George built after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion to pacify the Highlands. It is still an active garrison today home to the Black Watch Regiment of the British Army.
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Groam House MuseumA museum of Celtic and Pictish Art, located in the village of Rosemarkie. Groam House is custodian, not only the Rosemarkie Stone, one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone, but also, the Rosemarkie sculpture fragments, that are 14 stone fragments, the most well known being Daniels Stone. The museum also hosts the George Bain Collection. Bain, is considered the father of modern Celtic design, he spent many years working out the intricate mathematical designs found in Celtic art. In 2015 the museum organised a Celtic felt banner-making project to create banners for the Celtic Connections Festival 2016
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Fairy Glen FallsWild scenes and wild legends and some of the traditions connected with this romantic and solitary dell illustrate this remark. Till a comparatively late period, it was known at many a winter fireside as a favourite haunt of the fairies…I have conversed with an old woman…who, when a very little girl, had seen myriads of them dancing as the sun was setting on the further edge of the dell…' (Hugh Miller 1835)
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CromartyCromarty and the sea are indivisible. Fishing was traditionally the major industry. Other trade was also by boat from an outstanding natural harbour, and was an important British naval base during the two World Wars. HMS Natal blew up close by on 30 December 1915 with a substantial loss of life. [ Cromarty gives its name to one of the sea areas of the British Shipping Forecast. In the nineteenth century, Cromarty was the birthplace and home of Hugh Miller, a geologist, writer, journalist. His cottage and the Old Courthouse are both open to the public. The Sutors of Cromarty are two opposing headlands which mark the entrance to the Cromarty Firth. They stand guard over the firth, and many stories have been told about them. Sutor is the Scots word for shoemaker, and one story tells of two giant shoemakers, the Sutors, who used the two cliffs as their workbenches.
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Cromarty FirthSaid to be the finest deep-water, natural harbour in Europe the Firth was home to the High Seas Fleet during World Wars 1 and 2. Even today the N.A.T.O fleet call in here and is an impressive sight. The port of Invergordon across the Firth is a significant base for visiting cruise liners and a service port for the oil industry.
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The Black Isle
Inverness, The Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom
$893.23
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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