The city in perspective
Old streets, viewed from the heights and living neighborhoods give matter to several days. Choose the visits that attract you and leave time to walk.
Travel Ideas in ScotlandTravel to Scotland.
Travel to Scotland.
Beauty, directly experienced.
Edinburgh, the lochs and reliefs of the Highlands. Great landscapes to discover with the time they deserve.
At every wish, his journey
The Highlands or the islands as your guiding thread?
Scotland offers several trips: a tour of cities and castles, a landscape tour, or a parenthesis on an island. The pleasure comes from the good balance between roads, walks and places to stop.
These ideas help you to choose a direction. Caroline then studies with you the steps, links and possible benefits for your dates.
Places, atmospheres and desiresby Edinburgh Glencoe and the Highlands Skye or another island
What you come to find.
Observe the lines of the landscape
The valleys and lochs can be discovered with short or longer walks. The weather and your easy walking guide the program.
The desire for a distinctive stop
One island deserves more than one day of passing. Housing, access and possible crossings must be coordinated before fixing the rest of the route.
Drawing the right steps
Your choice of nights shapes the journey
A succession of remote hotels quickly turns the stay into driving days. Two well-placed bases can give access to very diverse landscapes and allow you to adapt to the conditions of the day.
An itinerary idea to personalise
A project can associate Edinburgh and the Highlands, and then book a real step in Skye. For a more remote island, re-think the route around the crossroads and available days rather than add it at the end of the circle.
Discovery suggestions, to adapt to your dates and local possibilities. No group departure, accommodation or price is announced as confirmed on this page.
The guide to make your choices
Prepare your discovery.
Which period should you choose?
The duration of the day, road conditions and the opening of the places vary depending on dates. The period is selected with the desired activities and the restrictions of the route.
What will influence your budget
Transportation to destination, the category and location of the nights, travel on the site and accompanied visits are compared together. Give Caroline a cover and your priorities: the project can be adjusted by playing on the steps, comfort or duration, before you stop the services.
Before booking
The formalities and conditions of access are checked for your nationality, your situation and the scheduled dates. Updated practical information is to be consulted with the competent authorities; the report describes the services effectively offered.
Before you launch
Your questions about Scotland.
Can you find Scotland without long trips?
and yes. A route can prefer villages, castles, accessible views and short walks. The distance and relief of each visit must be specified.
How can I plan my Scotland trip with Odyssée Voyages?
Contact Caroline by phone or by email with your dates, duration, number of travellers and priorities. A first study allows to clarify the possibilities, before any detailed proposal.
Are these ideas matching an already scheduled accompanying start?
not to. This page is an inspiration for a personalized project. The accompanied departies actually published are presented in the accompanied travel section, with their own information.
Take discovery further
From Edinburgh's lanes to wide-open spaces, find the right transition
Scotland is not only on the Highlands roads. Edinburgh and Glasgow offer different cultural entrances; lochs, coasts and islands give other ways to take time. A beautiful journey articulates these contrasts without changing decor every night. The problem is to keep a region that you can truly live and understand for a few days.
The images of castles, land and reliefs give the desire to draw a large circle on the map. However, a prolonged stop near a hole or coastal village leaves more space for discoveries. Secondary routes, detour and crossroads require a margin; they are part of the journey as much as the arrival places we expected.
Two directions to shape your journey
What thread will connect your itinerary?
Ideas for discovery to personalise according to your dates, pace and local possibilities.
Edinburgh and a first taste of the Highlands
A construction begins with Edinburgh and its neighborhoods, then gains a Highlands region. Urban stay deserves its own days: old streets, collections and walks according to your interests. The departure to the big spaces then becomes a change of rhythm, not a race after a visit that we would have done just arrived in the capital.
Glencoe or a set of lochs can then serve as an anchorage. The program does not presume a sport level: looking at the landscape from accessible stops and walking long are two distinct projects. Several nights in the industry make it easier to choose the next day according to your conditions and energy, with pauses and alternatives.
An island or a coast as a destination in its own right
Skye attracts by its reliefs but deserves a thought-step for its distances and access. Presenting it as a simple crochet would make you forget the time needed to discover it. Another island, such as Mull, may correspond to a different desire. These choices are compared instead of systematically adding in a first path.
The west coast, without island cross, also offers beautiful contrasts between small locations, views and suitable stairs. A pleasant address to find at night is sometimes better than a spectacular accommodation whose every departure requires a tour. The nights are selected for the entire route and the pace you want to keep every day.
The number of islands
Ferries and access structures the journey. A single deep island can constitute a richer stay than a set of trips and nights too short to enjoy landscapes or villages.
The landscapes you wish for
Lochs, coasts, forests and open reliefs do not require the same geography. We retain the sectors that correspond to your images rather than the stages of a supposed unavoidable circuit.
The weather
The days are adaptable. Cultural place, shorter walk or break can replace an outdoor discovery when the conditions are not suitable, without promising the same access at any time.
Give the journey the right pace
A week allows a city and a region, with a reasonable progress. Ten to fourteen days can include an island stage or a distant coast. The durations remain indicative: they depend on the number of transitions, travels and the desired time in the landscapes rather than the number of addresses that are added to the trip.
Extend without spreading too thin
A urban sequence and a natural sequence already form a complete Scotland. If you hesitate with Ireland or Norway, compare your atmosphere and your drive desire rather than the number of famous places. We will then build the destination held around a clear thread, at your pace and with really useful steps.
Continue the discovery
Other horizons to explore.
At Perpignan and at distance all over France
What if your next Odyssey began here?
Share your wishes with Caroline. Together, let us give a direction to your next trip.