Scotland plays a wonderful trick on you in the late afternoon. You can be standing thigh-deep in

heather, surrounded by the loveliest, emptiest terrain. And somehow the sun always seems to find a white manor house to strike, making it gleam against a cradle of blue-green mountains. We don’t know of another civilized place on earth where it’s so easy to feel so far from civilization. This Classic Journey offers plenty of gentility—in the regal streets of Edinburgh, in gracious hotels and inns, in manicured Victorian gardens. But that wonderful wild side is always as close as the next lochside walk…an hour of otter-watching…the chance to pace the perimeter of an Iron Age fort…the spectacular island paths that still tell the romantic stories of the Scots’ fierce heroes. Whether you’re sipping the local single-malt, drinking in a solitary sweep of the Highlands, or thrilling to the skirl of the bagpipers in Edinburgh Castle, you’ll love every moment of the Scotland we’ve prepared for you.