Scotland Travel Guide
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Scotland has astonishing variety, even within a small area. North Sea to Irish Sea, Highlands to Lowlands, the landscapes of Scotland—lush woodlands, windswept moors, lochs as deep as the imagination—may take your breath away. Edinburgh is a gloriously dignified city; Glasgow, a Victorian powerhouse. An excursion to St. Andrews is a pilgrimage for golf aficionados and numerous castles polka-dot the northeast. Its local products, customs, music, and traditional dress—from tartans and bagpipes to tweeds—travel all over the globe, but there's nothing like experiencing them firsthand.
Regions in Scotland
Cities in Scotland
- Aberdeen
- Aberfeldy
- Aberfoyle
- Aberlour
- Achiltibuie
- Alford
- Alyth
- Anstruther
- Appin
- Arbroath
- Arisaig
- Auchterarder
- Aviemore
- Ballater and Balmoral Castle
- Balquhidder Glen
- Banchory
- Banff
- Birsay
- Blackwaterfoot
- Blair Atholl
- Boat of Garten
- Bowmore
- Brae
- Braemar
- Brechin
- Brodick
- Callander
- Coldstream
- Coll
- Colonsay
- Craigellachie
- Craignure
- Crail
- Cramond
- Crieff
- Crinan
- Cullen
- Culloden Moor
- Cupar
- Dalbeattie
- Dervaig
- Dollar
- Dornoch
- Drumnadrochit
- Drymen
- Dufftown
- Dumfries
- Dunbar
- Dunbeath
- Dunblane
- Dundee
- Dunfermline
- Dunkeld
- Durness
- Elgin
- Ellon
- Falkland
- Findhorn
- Fochabers
- Forfar
- Forres
- Fort Augustus and Loch Ness
- Fort George
- Fort William
- Gairloch
- Galashiels
- Gatehouse of Fleet
- Glamis
- Glasgow
- Glen Trool
- Glencoe
- Glenfinnan
- Golspie
- Grantown-on-Spey
- Gretna Green
- Haddington
- Helmsdale
- Innerleithen
- Inveraray
- Invergarry and the Caledonian Canal
- Inverness
- Iona
- Jedburgh
- John o'Groats
- Jura
- Kelso
- Killin
- Kingussie
- Kintyre Peninsula
- Kirkcudbright
- Kirkwall
- Kirriemuir
- Kyle of Lochalsh
- Lamlash
- Lerwick
- Loch Awe
- Loch Leven
- Loch Lomond
- Lochcarron
- Lochgilphead
- Lochinver
- Lochranza
- Lower Largo
- Machrie
- Mallaig
- Meigle
- Melrose
- Montrose
- Nairn
- Newton Stewart
- North Berwick
- Oban
- Ochil Hills
- Peebles
- Perth
- Pitlochry
- Pittenweem
- Port Askaig
- Port Charlotte
- Port Ellen
- Portpatrick
- Ruthwell
- Scalloway
- Scourie
- Selkirk
- Shieldaig
- South Queensferry
- St. Andrews
- Stirling
- Stonehaven
- Stranraer
- Strathpeffer
- Stromness and the Neolithic Sites
- Thurso
- Tiree
- Tobermory
- Ullapool
- Unst
- Weisdale
- Whithorn
- Wick
- Wigtown
- Yell
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