Castelo de Urquhart, Culloden, Clava Cairns, Lago Ness
Descrição
Viagem de regresso: Teremos você de volta ao seu navio cerca de 1 hora antes de sua hora de partida. Quase sempre chegamos de volta antes dos próprios ônibus do navio. Somos muito eficientes e temos feito isso há 7 anos, atendendo milhares de passageiros de cruzeiros a cada temporada de verão. Você verá Clava Cairns da fama Outlander, campo de batalha de Culloden, Castelo de Urquhart, Inverness, Loch Ness e as famosas vacas de terra alta em Beauly. Este passeio é feito geralmente em um minivan de 8 lugares, mas às vezes até 33 lugares, que ainda é um pequeno ônibus. Nosso tour é baseado em uma experiência de qualidade a partir de feedback de nossos clientes em 2019. Somos uma nova empresa que visa agradar e nossos guias vão oferecer-lhe o conhecimento local e responder a todas as suas perguntas. Nosso passeio partirá de 30 minutos a 1,5 horas após a chegada do navio. Este passeio pode ser em qualquer coisa de 8 lugares para 33 lugares, dependendo dos números. Você vai adorar nossos guias turísticos experientes em seus uniformes roxos ou roupas de tartan e kilt.
Opções de passeio
Itinerário
⸻ Culloden Battlefield • Culloden Moor, apenas fora de Inverness, é o local da Batalha de Culloden (16 de abril de 1746), a última batalha disputada em solo britânico. • Marcou o fim do levantamento jacobita de 1745, quando o príncipe Charles Edward Stuart – “Bonnie Prince Charlie” – tentou recuperar o trono para a dinastia Stuart exilada. • O exército jacobita, constituído em grande parte por membros do clan de Highland, enfrentou as forças governamentais do duque de Cumberland. Isso inclui o tempo de viagem para chegar lá do porto de 45 minutos. 30 - 45 minutos no local.
• Os Clava Cairns são um grupo de cairns enterrados da Idade do Bronze, cerca de 4.000 anos de idade, localizado perto de Culloden Battlefield, apenas fora de Inverness. • O local inclui túmulos de passagem, cairns de anel, pedras de pé e cairns de quebra, dispostos em um padrão circular. • Os fãs da série Outlander reconhecerão Clava Cairns como a inspiração para o fictício Craigh na Dun, onde Claire Randall é transportada de volta no tempo através das pedras de pé. • Embora a própria Clava Cairns não tenha uma mágica “pedra dividida” como na série, o cenário – com seu círculo de pedras de pé – se sente muito parecido. Inclui 15 minutos de tempo de viagem a partir da última localização.
Chegue ao centro da cidade de Inverness, onde sua entrada está incluída na nova galeria de visualização do Castelo de Inverness. Ver ao longo da cidade. Visite a estátua de Flora MacDonald fora do castelo e veja as lojas e cafés em Inverness. Talvez tente uma cerveja local no bar mais antigo de Inverness, os Gellions, que remonta a 1841. Infelizmente apenas fotos até 2024 como vasto ele é nuvem para renovação completa. Inclui 30 minutos de tempo de viagem a partir da última localização
Viaje ao longo do Loch Ness por 24 km, parando para tirar fotos de Nessie (se tiver muita sorte).
Passe pela pitoresca vila parando ao visitar o centro Nessie e a loja de gin
Visite as ruínas do Castelo de Urquhart, bem como o centro de vídeo. Assista a um vídeo histórico de 6 minutos com subtítulos em seu próprio idioma. Vagueie até as ruínas ou navegue na loja ou no café. Inclui condução pelo loch ness por 30 minutos
Veja coos de highland da vida real e alpacas na fazenda de Robertson na periferia de Beauly. Inclui 30 minutos de viagem a partir da última localização.
Estrutura • O viaduto é o mais longo viaduto de muralhas da Escócia, estendendo-se 1.800 pés (549 metros). • É feita de areia vermelha e consiste em 29 arcos graciosos, cada um com cerca de 50 pés de altura. • O viaduto tem uma curva esmagadora, dando-lhe uma aparência muito elegante em toda a paisagem.
Deixe a vila Drumnadrochit e depois volte para o navio por terra selvagem a 300 metros de uma montanha que desce até a vila de Beauly, passando pelo antigo Priorado.
Destaques
O que está incluído
Avaliações dos viajantes
Informações importantes
- Acessibilidade para cadeira de rodas
- Bebês e crianças pequenas podem andar em um carrinho
- Assentos infantis disponíveis
- Opções de transporte com acessibilidade para cadeirantes
- Requer condicionamento físico moderado
Avaliações(125)
Rabbie is wonderful. An authentic Highlander.
What a lovely description of Rab — “an authentic Highlander” is a compliment we know he’ll appreciate! We’re very fortunate to have guides who bring their own personality and love of the Highlands to our tours. We’ll be sure to pass this on to him.
I can’t say enough good things about Thistle tours. Our guide was so friendly and knowledgeable and customized the tour to our interests. The second half of the day was rainy but it was still great! The rain made for excellent moody castle and Loch Ness photos! So many thanks to our guide June for making this such a memorable day!
We love that you embraced the Highland rain — it really can make Loch Ness and the castles look wonderfully atmospheric! June will be thrilled to know that her friendly approach, knowledge and willingness to tailor the day helped make it so memorable for you. Thank you for choosing Thistle for your Highland adventure.
Great experience at Invergordon, they picked up us at the port just outside the ship, excellent guide tour, Robbie was great, lot of knowledge and very friendly, we really enjoyed, we really recommend this tour.
It’s great to hear that everything went smoothly from meeting you at the port through to your day exploring the Highlands. Robbie/Rab will be very pleased to know that his knowledge and friendly nature made such a good impression. Thank you for choosing to spend your time in Invergordon with us and for recommending the tour to others!
We booked a Thistle Excursion as an alternative to a more expensive Princess Cruise Tour. It well-exceeded our expectations! Though it was rainy, Thistle tour guides were right where they said they would be when we disembarked the ship, and we had no trouble finding them! We were pleasantly surprised to find that our transportation for the day would be a Mercedes van as opposed to a larger coach bus. This made it much more comfortable and easy to hear our tour guides and to get in and out at all of the stops. Speaking of tour guides, Simon was AMAZING! He shared so much knowledge and history of Scotland and the highlands with us. He also had a way with his storytelling that was engaging and never felt like too much or a bore. We learned the whole time we were with him, and I think he went above and beyond to share his country with us. The highlights of the trip for our family were Urquahart Castle and Loch Ness, but we also appreciated Clava Cairns, Culloden, and the Highland Cows. As far as timing, it was definitely a busy day, but we felt like we had enough time at each of the stops. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this tour to anyone!!
What a wonderful review — thank you! We’re especially pleased that choosing a smaller independent excursion over the ship’s larger tour worked so well for your family. Simon has a real gift for bringing Highland history to life without making it feel like a history lesson, and we know he’ll appreciate your comments enormously. It’s also lovely to hear that the smaller Mercedes made the day more comfortable and personal. Thank you for trusting us with your day in port and for recommending us so highly.
Aileen was an absolute joy and an amazing guide. We saw all of the local highlights and had an exceptional day seeing ancient burials, historic battlefields, the loch, the castle and even highland cows. My family said it was the best excursion we have ever done. Aileen made the day perfect and allowed my family to create lifelong memories.
Thank you so much for this wonderful review. We’re delighted Aileen helped make your day so special. Knowing your family described it as the best excursion you’ve ever done means the world to us. We hope those Highland memories stay with you for many years, and we’d love to welcome you back again!
Our day with Danny, exploring the Scottish Highlands was amazing. Danny made our whole experience special. We loved the small group tour. I would highly recommend this experience, Thistle Tours and Danny.
Here’s a friendly, professional reply: Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We’re delighted to hear you had such an amazing day exploring the Scottish Highlands with Danny. Small group tours really do make for a more personal experience, and we’re so pleased Danny helped make your day extra special. Your recommendation of Thistle Excursions and Danny means a great deal to us. We hope to welcome you back to the Highlands again in the future. Safe travels and thank you for choosing Thistle Excursions!
Very nice day, guide Rab did well, although Scottish for NL is quite difficult to understand.
Thank you so much for your lovely review. We’re delighted you had such a good day with Rab. 😊 We completely understand that the Scottish accent can take a little getting used to! We hope Rab’s enthusiasm and local knowledge still made the tour enjoyable and memorable. We’d love to welcome you back to Scotland again one day. Safe travels!
Wonderful introduction to the Scottish Highlands. The best part was Urquhart Castle overlooking the Loch Ness. Oh, and the brief visit to the Highland Cow farm. We could have spent less time in Inverness, though that could have had something to do with the early timing of our arrival (and therefore too early for lunch). Our guide was very knowledgeable and pleasant - and he got us back to the cruise exactly on time.
Thank you so Much.
I really enjoyed this tour! The journey was beautiful and our guide, Seoris, is from the area and has such an intimate and personal knowledge of Scotland as a whole and every site we visited. He is so informative and engaging and I loved each and every stop along the tour! The pickup and drop off from port could not be more convenient. I would highly recommend this!
Thank you for your kind words.
My wife and I can confirm that this operator’s aggressive and sarcastic responses to their one-star reviews are authentic, since my wife received a similar diatribe with a logical red herring thrown in: “You not being in the queue at the earlier time was not my fault either.” Here’s what happened: our cruise ship, the Norwegian Star, apparently has a reputation among Inverness area tour guides for disembarking at a snail’s pace. Maxine had emailed us the night before to say that the Thistle tour’s departure would be adjusted to between 9:30-10 to accommodate a new face-to-face UK immigration process aboard the ship. Strangely enough, Maxine’s email directed us to meet at “Invergordon Tours,” and so I thought it would make sense to send a WhatsApp message to tell Invergordon Tours that we were on our way and update our progress through the immigration queue. (My wife and I were too flustered by the possibility of missing our tour to coordinate on the name of Thistle.) The gentleman on the other end of that WhatsApp chat was indeed quite helpful, though he had nothing to do with Thistle Tours. He was appalled by how Maxine treated us. Read on: We arrived at 10:05 after a 2.5 hour wait to meet one of the TWO immigration agents apparently necessary to match our faces to our passport pictures for thousands of passengers. Another tour operator (Invergordon Bus Tours; please take them instead!) let us know that Thistle had been there last time he had turned around, but apparently had left without us. Maxine cannot decide whether the tour left at 10:02 or 10:08, but the fact is that the tour had left before we arrived at 10:05 and that one of her tour guides told us that *she was not there.* We immediately booked a tour there at the port with Invergordon Bus Tours then logged on to TripAdvisor to request a refund from Thistle for missing the departure due to circumstances far outside our control. Maxine will not refund our money after several requests. Some losses due to clients’ unforeseen circumstances are certainly par for the course in the tourism industry. Treating customers in the way that she has us and others dissatisfied with Thistle’s services should not be. (Please see attached screenshot of one of her email responses to our request for a refund.)
You were at fault. Everyone else was waiting for you over 40 minutes. We were under pressure to go but we waited until AFTER 10am. Of course you’re upset because you lost money but if us refunded you then I’d lose the money for the seats I kept for you plus the castle entry. Yes it’s par for the course but you were at fault.
