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Are you looking for an extraordinary experience for up to six people (eight people by prior arrangement or if booking Graham), combining history, natural history and even the truth about Loch Ness? Our team of specialist independent guides include local historians, entertaining raconteurs and heritage enthusiasts with a vast knowledge of Scotland's history. These guides provide one of the most highly acclaimed tour experiences in the world. Whether you would like an Isle of Skye tour or a guided walk around Culloden Battlefield, to be sure of the very best look no further than this site. With taxis now charging over £40 per hour, our prices are very good value too!
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H3 Half Day Loch Ness Circular Tour - Six Hours

Inverness Castle, perhaps the location of eleventh century Macbeth's castleA fascinating tour picking you up from Inverness airport, station or hotel and taking you right around world famous Loch Ness. You choose your itinerary which can include a Loch Ness Cruise, the Loch Ness Centre exhibition, Urquhart Castle and many other local attractions. If you prefer to avoid the tourist traps we can do that too. 

A typical itinerary would begin with an Inverness Tour explaining the history of the castle, the natural history of the river and esker scenery, the story of city-status and the spire-less cathedral. Good photo-opportunities too.

Urquhart Castle - only Stirling and Edinburgh Castles are largerThen we cross the Caledonian Canal, pass the site of King Brude's sixth century fortress and approach the dramatic scenery of the world's most famous body of freshwater.

After a beach stop on the loch-side, our guides use a short sequence of DVD to help explain the bad news about the monster, but don't panic, there will more positive material later.

If you are taking a cruise you will now join the boat for a cruise which can even be combined with a waterborne arrival at Urquhart Castle where our guide will meet you and tell you about some of the stranger features of the castle which are not mentioned in the visitor centre.

After the good (relatively anyway) news about Nessie there are other options open to you like Loch Ness Centre for the insatiable Nessie Hunters.Fort Augustus Abbey from the air

We continue south west along the steep loch-side stopping to photograph the first of General George Wade's stone bridges we encounter.

Next Fort Augustus with Fort Augustus Abbey and staircase of locks on the Caledonian Canal. Perhaps a break here for lunch in the Bothy Bite or Lock Inn.

We continue now down the south side of Loch Ness, seeing the spectacular view down the length of the loch before the road climbs above Loch Tarff and on to Whitebridge, the location of another of General George Wade's bridges with its Redcoat Soldier Engineer's motif.The length of Loch Ness from Fort Augustus

The loch is rejoined at Foyers for a low level single track road journey back towards Inverness, passing haunted Boleskine House, Boleskine graveyard and Dores bay where monster hunter Steve Feltham continues his fifteen year vigil.

So if you'd like to spend a day of your vacation in the company of a local historian or history enthusiast  then this tour is for you.

Price: £210 for up to six passengers.

Loch Ness with Urquhart Castle to the right. Private Tours A1, H1, H3 & P1
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