1) The Isle of Staffa
Fingal’s Cave, showing basalt columns, Isle of Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK
Staffa’s name means “Pillar Island”. It’s covered in strangely-shaped basalt rock formations and columns, the most impressive of which can be found in Fingal’s Cave: A huge, echoing, vaulted chamber that was created by the action of the waves on the soft volcanic rock millions of years ago.
2) The Stacks of Duncansby, John o’ Groats
These bizarre sea stacks in the far north of Scotland look like somewhere a Jedi might hide out, but they’re actually home to hundreds of nesting sea birds like guillemots, fulmars, razorbills, and gannets (not Luke Skywalker).
3) Finnich Glen and The Devil’s Pulpit
This dramatic, 100-foot deep gorge in the west of Scotland looks like a gateway to another dimension, largely thanks to the rocks that jut up through the surface of the water and create stunning eddies and whirlpools. It’s definitely out of this world.
4) An Teallach, Dundonnell
The name of this stunning mountain means “the hearthstone of the forge” in Gaelic. It takes its name from the incredible, burning, lava-like glow of the red sandstone when the dawn sun strikes it in August. If it wasn’t for the water it could definitely pass for Mars.
5) St. Kilda
The isolated, dramatic archipelago of St. Kilda is the most remote part of the British Isles, and lies 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. It’s no longer inhabited: The last inhabitants left in 1930, leaving their oddly-shaped stone walls and strange, beehive-like shelters behind them like the remains of a lost civilization.
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3DAYS ISLE OF SKYE TOUR GLASGOW WITH LOCH NESS
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