Gateway to the Highlands

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Inverness audio tour: Gateway to the Highlands

This is a 1.8mi walking tour

It takes an average of 75 mins to complete.

Inverness

The United Kingdom

$8.99

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About the Tour

Kilts, bagpipes, Gaelic, clans and hot Jacobites (I'm looking at you, Jamie Fraser) - so many of our Scottish stereotypes come from the Highlands.

Inverness has always been the capital of the Highlands, the gateway between the Highland and Lowland communities. Yet Inverness has a complicated relationship with its highland heritage. On this tour you will delve into that relationship through ancient legends, invented traditions and a battle about a cheese.

Tour Producer

Scot Free Tours

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Scot Free Tours was started in 2016 by born and bred Aberdonian Lia Sanders. Since then we have expanded across the North-east of Scotland and have started making audio tours. The idea is to give you the freedom to explore at a time that suits you - while still getting our 'take' on a place, with all the funny, gruesome or unexpected details that involves.

We'd love to hear what you think of the tour so get in touch via Facebook or our website.

Preview Location

Location 1

Start - Inverness Townhouse

If you're standing across the street from the imposing building that looks a bit like a church, you're in the right place.

That's the Inverness Townhouse, the seat of local government.

In 1851, 61 men, women and children from the island of Barra got off the canal steame... Read More

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Major Landmarks

Inverness Town House
The Steeple
Dr Black Memorial Hall
Abertarff House
Old High Church
Leakey's Bookshop
River Ness
Greig Street Bridge
Balnain House
Ness Bridge
Inverness Cathedral
Eden Court Inverness
Infirmary Bridge
Cavell Gardens
Faith
Great Glen Way
Inverness Castle
Flora Macdonald statue

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Getting There

Route Overview

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Start location
High St, Inverness IV1 1JJ, UK
Total distance

3km
Final location
Flora MacDonald and Border Collie, View Pl, Inverness IV2 3EG, UK
Distance back to start location

204.5m

Directions to Starting Point

The tour starts on High Street, on the pavement across the street from Inverness Town House. It is 4 minutes walk from Inverness railway station and 6 minutes away from Inverness bus station.

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Places to stop along the way

Leakey's Bookshop, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness Castle, Harry Gow bakery (try one of their delicious dream rings)

Best time of day

The tour is best completed between 12pm and 4pm, Tuesday to Friday, and between 11am and 4pm on Saturdays when Leakey's Bookshop and the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery is open.

Precautions

Inverness can get quite chilly, particularly in the winter months. Make sure to dress appropriately for the weather.

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“Great app. walk around at your own pace, stop where you want, move on or speed up when you want. Read the script before you go or during the commentary, speed it up or replay it. Repeat the tour whenever you like.”