Walking
holidays in Scotland
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Isle
of Arran Coastal Way, is a walking
holiday around the Isle of Arran, the most southerly of
the collection of Scotland’s beautiful Western Isles.
Only 12 miles from the mainland across the Firth of the
Clyde, within easy reach of Glasgow, a Walking Holiday on
the Arran Coastal Way on the beautiful Isle of Arran is
a world away from the busy Scottish mainland.
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Great
Glen Way The Great Glen Way leads from
the popular hiking centre of Fort William, near the foot
of Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, diagonally northwards
to the self-proclaimed 'capital of the Highlands', Inverness,
linking the Atlantic Ocean on the north coast of Scotland
and the North Sea on the east coast.
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Highland
Drovers' Trail As its name suggests,
the Highland Drovers' Trail follows part of a route taken
by the Highlanders of the Isle of Skye between the 15th
an 19th Centuries as they 'drove' their cattle every Autumn
across the Western Highlands to the markets in the Scottish
Lowlands.
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Rob
Roy Way Scotland’s most infamous
outlaw, Rob Roy MacGregor, roamed the Southern Highlands
of Scotland during the latter part of the 17th and early
part of the 18th Centuries. Now you can trace the legend
of this famed Scot and his clansmen on the Rob Roy Way,
a walk of some 80 or 90 miles from Drymen to Pitlochry,
depending on your personal route of choice.
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St
Cuthberts Way Walking Holidays St Cuthbert’s
Way provides an immensley enjoyable walking holiday through
the beautiful Scottish border countryside. Walking St Cuthberts
Way traces the footsteps of the 7th century saint who spread
the Gospel through Scotland and northern England, performing
many healing miracles along his way.
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Speyside
Way is one of four official Long Distance
Routes in Scotland (the others are the West Highland Way,
the Southern Upland Way and the Great Glen Way). It was
first opened in 1981, to run from Spey Bay to Ballindalloch,
with a spur to Tomintoul being added in 1990. A northern
extension from Spey Bay to Buckie followed in 1999, with
the route finally being completed between Ballindalloch
and Aviemore in April 2000.
Southern
Upland Way Opened in 1984, the Southern
Upland Way is Scotland's longest walk and Britain's first
official coast to coast long distance footpath , beating
a trail of some 212 miles (340 kms) from Portpatrick on
the south west coast of Scotland, to Cockburnspath's North
Sea coastline in the east.
West
Highland Way Scotland’s most popular
trail, the West Highland Way is a challenging 95 mile (152
km) walk from Milngavie, near Glasgow, Scotland's largest
city, leading northwards to Fort William, beneath Ben Nevis,
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