Day tour to Isle of Skye and Fairy Pools from Inverness

Leave Inverness and cross the Kessock Bridge onto the Black Isle, following part of the North Coast 500 through remote and beautiful scenery, including Loch Carron and the mountains of the North-West Highlands. Enjoy a short break in the hamlet of Achnasheen, beside the River Bran.

Continue west to Eilean Bàn, the tiny island where naturalist Gavin Maxwell once lived and which now forms part of the Skye Bridge. Stop to stretch your legs and take photos in Kyleakin before heading deeper into the Misty Isle.

Pass the Cuillin Hills and Sligachan Bridge as your driver-guide shares tales of Skye’s history and mythology. In Portree, the island’s largest town, stop for lunch and explore the charming harbour lined with colourful cottages, but watch out for the seagulls!

Spend around 90 minutes at the Fairy Pools, where a gentle walk leads to a network of blue-green waterfalls and streams in the shadow of the Cuillin mountains.

On the way back to the mainland, stop at Eilean Donan Castle, perched on its own island at the head of Loch Duich and familiar from many films and TV shows.

Finish the day with a bit of monster spotting as we travel through the Great Glen and along the shores of Loch Ness back to Inverness.