Alan Coppin · Updated 4 weeks ago
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Loch Ness
Loch Ness is the reason most people come, and it's the part of a Highland trip that's easiest to get wrong — there are five ways to get on the water, a dozen car parks charging for the same view, and an entire industry built on a monster.
Inverness
Most guides treat Inverness as a car park with a castle — somewhere to sleep before the real trip starts. That's a mistake. The city rewards a proper day: an under-rated covered market, a genuinely good whisky scene, and river walks that beat half the 'must-see' viewpoints out of town.
Day trips
The Highlands are big, and a lot of trip planning goes wrong by trying to do too much. These are realistic loops and itineraries built around how the driving actually works from Inverness — with honest timings and the stops worth making.
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