ANCIENT TRACKWAYS OF SCOTLAND - DRIVE A ROAD THAT GOES NOWHERE
All the RTGN are built on ancient trackways used for centuries, usually by drovers moving cattle and sheep to the market in Falkirk. Small Highland communities were built on them. The remnants of these communities are still there and these are the oldest roads in the Highlands. You can feel the past. The Road to the Isles went across the Corran ferry 6 miles away. 35 mins Gillian’s favourite, Glen Nevis, go right up to the top, and walk up beside the waterfalls. Braveheart was filmed there.
45 mins Go West side of Loch Lochy then turn on to the RTGN west to Loch Arkaig. On the way back, watch out for the buzzard which will lead you back
All day. The best. Loch Hourn by road. This picture is taken on the road. Gillian is by the tree.
This is the secret one. Make sure you’ve got petrol, cakes and a thermos. You are
doing old Scotland to-day. Do you know anyone else who has ever seen Loch Hourn? Neither
do we. Start at Invergarry, turn left, and keep left when the main road turns off to Skye. You will
go through ancient forests, into the hills past Loch Quoich. There are five Munroes over 3,000
feet within three miles of your car. You’ll end up at Kinlochourn. Neat little hamlet, little walk
alongside the sea-loch, a winding Norwegian-like fjord. Only the odd fishing boat, the
occasional day boat, or tourist boat out of Mallaig go there. No wonder the Vikings ran this
area for centuries. They felt at home here. Back the way you came.
