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All our guides have a minimum of the Summer Mountain Leader Award and have an extensive knowledge of the history, culture and wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. The guides are paid a professional wage and in addition, have their accommodation, food and travel expenses covered.
This two week odyssey around the Highlands and Skye features a variety of rural venues - accommodation is in small family run hotels and guest houses with evening meals in local restaurants and pubs. There are lots of opportunities for interaction with local people as our groups are often invited to locally arranged events and evening entertainment.
Group size is limited to a maximum of 8 to minimize our impact out on the hills - transport is provided by our own VW Caravelle which is large enough to comfortably fit 9 people yet small enough not to be an issue on the narrow rural roads in the Highlands. Travel time on transfer days is never more then 3 hours and we always break the journeys with short walks or beach visits.
Our guides are either from Edinburgh area or Aviemore, Glencoe, Oban or the Borders. We take guests to local restaurants such as Café Arriba in Portree on Skye, Creelers on Skye – both have a menu dependent on local catch, Rivendell in Shieldaig likewise, The Glen in Newtonmore and Firhall in Grantown on Spey have locally shot pheasants and venison. A big part of our trips is the local history. The highland clearances are a visible backdrop to a lot of the walks, we also tale people to local ceilidhs if on.
We have a 'no litter on hill policy' (impromptu beach and mountain path clean ups where possible). We encourage guests to recycle their waste. We buy new bottles at the start of each trip end then refill in the week. Old bottles are turned into white-water rafts for another long term project – bottleraft adventures.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
