Experiences
Things to do and places to visit in the Scottish highlands
Bask in the Highlands' glory and experience some of the most beautiful scenery and wildlife that this stunning part of Scotland has to offer.
Explore our recommendations for places to visit and things to do across the Scottish Highlands, all within a couple of hours drive from Kincraig Castle.
Explore Our Recommendations
Tarbat Discovery Centre
Tarbet Discovery Centre is a museum, learning and activity centre dedicated to displaying and preserving the heritage of the Tarbat peninsula.
Speyside Cooperage
In the heart of Scotland’s rolling hills lies Speyside Cooperage, the only working cooperage in the UK where you can experience the ancient art of coopering.
Clava Cairns
Clava Cairns are a well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery complex of passage graves, ring cairns, kerb cairns and standing stones in a beautiful setting.
Fairy Glen, Rosemarkie
An easy walk up a delightful wooded glen, with two attractive waterfalls.
Clootie Wells
Clootie wells like the one here at Munlochy are found in Celtic places like Cornwall and Ireland and are linked to ancient healing traditions.
Bone Caves Circuit, near Inchnadamph
This beautiful and popular walk leads up a limestone valley to visit the dramatic Bone Caves.
Mermaid of the North
The Stunning 11ft tall Mermaid of the North sits on her rock on the shore of the Seaboard Village of Balintore.
Cnoc Fyrish Monument
All walkers will be keen to visit this prominent, rather strange monument atop the hills near Alness.
Urquhart Castle
Urquhart Castle The magnificently situated Urquhart Castle, on the shores of Loch Ness, has seen some of the most dramatic chapters in our nation’s history.
Cawdor Castle
Cawdor Castle is a medieval, and 17th-century castle near Nairn is perhaps best known for its literary connection to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, in which the title character is made "Thane of Cawdor".
Inverness Castle
Inverness Castle sits on a cliff overlooking the River Ness in Inverness.
Castle Leod
Castle Leod is the seat of the Clan Mackenzie and located near the Victorian spa village of Strathpeffer. Viewing by appointment only.
Brodie Castle
Brodie Castle is stuffed to the turrets with antique furniture, paintings and ceramics, the legacy of generations of Clan Brodie.
Attadale Gardens
A unique 20 acre garden on the south side of Loch Carron which was initially established by the Victorians.
Inverewe Gardens
Inverewe Gardens is the biggest botanical garden in the Scottish Highlands.
Leckmelm Shrubbery & Arboretum
This is one of the 'West Coast' gardens with a variety of exotic and tender plants, thriving due to the high rainfall and warm temperate climate.
Flora Hall
Floral Hall Inverness is a botanic garden with a tropical house, carp pond, waterfalls, formal gardens and a cafe.
Inverness Cathedral
Situated in the city of Inverness in Scotland close to the banks of the River Ness.
Jail Dornoch
Dornoch’s 19th century town jail was transformed into a contemporary designed shop in 2000 offering a superb selection of unique gift ideas.
Dunrobin Castle
Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland's great houses and the largest in the Northern Highlands with 189 rooms.