Ross and Cromarty

Applecross

Dornie

Eilean Donan Castle

Situated on a rocky outcrop, where Lochs Long, Loch Duich, and Loch Alsh meet, Eilean Donan has been a fortified site for at least 800 years. Today's castle, was re-built from the ruins of its predecessor between 1912 and 1932 by Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap.

Gairloch

Loch Ewe

Inverewe Gardens

The Gardens date back to 1862 as the idea of Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842-1922). At that time, he lived at Flowerdale House in Gairloch. He was a son of Sir Francis Mackenzie, laird of Gairloch and he was one year old when his father died. His mother and brothers inherited the Gairloch Estate and with his mother's help, he acquired the 12,000 acre Inverewe and Kernsary Estate. At that time, the Inverewe peninsula was a barren and rocky promontory on the land side of Loch Ewe, but Osgood decided to build a new house there and by 1870, the Scottish mansion and garden were nearly finished.

The warm currents of the North Atlantic Drift help nurture an oasis of colour and fertility, where exotic plants from many countries flourish on a latitude  about the same as Hudson's Bay in Canada.

When Osgood died in 1922, the garden had received a lot of international acclaim. His daughter Mairi T Sawyer supervised and enhanced it until she died in 1953.