Here's what you can see and do when staying at one of our Scottish cottages in the northern Highlands. For many people around the world, the Highlands 'are' Scotland, living up to their picture-postcard images with majestic scenery, awesome wild places, towering mountains and broad expanses of dark and shimmering lochs.
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In the very north lie Caithness and Sutherland, a great northern wilderness, offering sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of life. For visitors to this part of Scotland holiday cottages make an ideal base from which to explore this undiscovered corner of the Highlands. Caithness is relatively flat in contrast to the rest of the far north of Scotland. Most of this unspoilt landscape is dominated by open moorland and peat bog (the world's best preserved area of natural peat bog and its flora and fauna) broken by straths (river valleys) of more fertile farm and croft land and occasional scattered settlements.
Sutherland has scenery varying from wild cliffs, tiny islands and remote sandy beaches on its three coastlines, to vast expanses of barren moorland with panoramic mountain views. The beautiful eastern seaboard is quite fertile and farms are numerous, no more so than around Dornoch, a historic small cathedral town. In contrast the west coast is much more rugged. Lochinver is still an important fishing village, as is Kinlochbervie further up the coast. Sutherland also has a north coast, overlooking the Pentland Firth and the location of the most northerly point on the UK mainland - Cape Wrath. This stunning landscape is easily accessed from any of our Scottish holiday cottages in Sutherland.
Ross-shire is one of the most beautiful counties, stretching from the Black Isle on the east coast above Inverness to Applecross on the dramatic west coast. The interior of the county is mainly mountainous which gives rise to some spectacular scenery and landscapes. Glen Shiel, on the Invergarry to Kyle of Lochalsh road, sits at the bottom of the Five Sisters of Kintail, a quintet of peaks overlooking the mountain of Rattigan and the road to Glenelg with its tumbling rivers. Stunning is the only word to use about this scenic splendour and when exploring the Highlands of Scotland holiday cottages offer the type of flexible accommodation most families will require.
Inverness stands at the northern end of the magnificent Great Glen, a geological fissure separating the north west of Scotland from its south-eastern corner. The mountain-fringed glen is dominated in the south by Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, and through it runs Loch Ness, famous for its monster. The Cairngorms National Park is Britain's biggest national park and a great choice of Scottish holiday cottages. With moorland, forests, rivers and glens, it contains the largest area of arctic mountain landscape in the country - and some of the best skiing to be found anywhere.
With some of Britain's most dramatic scenery and recently voted the 4th best island in the world by National Geographic magazine, the Isle of Skye is an unforgettable destination. The largest and best known of all Scotland's many islands, it is 50 miles long with a beautiful coastline, deep fjord-like lochs, inlets, sandy beaches, bays and smaller islands. The island is dominated by the Cuillin mountains, Britain's finest mountain range, in the south west.
Morayshire lying between the Moray Firth to the north and Cairngorm Mountains to the south. The Firth is one of the most important places in Britain for observing dolphins and whales, while the mountains give rise to the River Spey, one of the finest salmon rivers in the world and also supplier of the precious water that makes the finest whiskies in the world, the Speyside Malts.
Aberdeenshire can boast the most famous holidaymakers in Britain! Since Queen Victoria purchased the Balmoral Estate, Deeside has been known as the summer holiday home of the royal family. The River Dee runs through magnificent Grampian scenery from Balmoral, through the former spa town of Ballater, Banchory famous for its lavender fields, past Crathes and Drum Castles to Aberdeen, the Granite city with many buildings built from this local stone. Visitors to our Scottish holiday cottages in Aberdeenshire will find attractive coastal fishing villages, famous whisky distilleries, majestic castles, and some of the finest salmon fishing rivers in the world.
For visitors to Scotland holiday cottages make an ideal base from which to explore. So, why not browse our selection of Scottish cottages in the northern Highlands to find something that catches your eye?Scottish cottages in the northern Highlands.
Aberdeenshire cottages
Cottages in Caithness
Inverness cottages
Isle of Skye cottages
Moray cottages
Cottages in Ross-shire
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