Tartan Travels

You've heard of it but now is the opportunity to experience it for yourself. Loch Ness holds more fresh water than the rest of the United Kingdom combined. Is that all it's famous for? Let's travel to Urquhart Castle and go Nessie Spotting. The famous Loch Ness Monster or "Nessie" as she is called, brings myth and legend to life and you will learn all about Nessie at the Loch Ness Visitor Centre before heading back towards the beautiful village of Beauly. Here you will explore the ruins of Beauly Priory. The Beauly Priory website states that it "is one of three priories founded in Scotland in about 1230 for monks of the Valliscaulian order. The Valliscaulians came from Val-des-Choux (‘Valley of the Cabbages’) near Dijon in France, and adhered to strict ideals of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Beauly, meaning ‘beautiful place’, must have seemed to the monks a wonderful location in which to devote themselves to worship. Only the abbey church still stands today, housing some fine funerary monuments."

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Tours start from £420 for a group of 4. Contact for more details.