Ardnamurchan & Kintyre - Scotland's Tranquil Peninsulas

We will begin meet­ing every­one in Glas­gow and head north west from there. We will begin our tour at Ard­na­mur­chan which is prob­a­bly the most remote of the West High­land Penin­su­las and is home to the most west­er­ly point on the British main­land stay­ing in the sleepy vil­lage of Achar­a­cle. Because of its remote­ness it remains a beau­ti­ful and peace­ful land­scape fea­tur­ing ancient oak wood­lands, lochs and beaches.

We will explore the coast and wood­land exten­sive­ly, allow­ing time to take in both the spec­tac­u­lar views towards the inner isles of Coll and Rum and the more seclud­ed bays with fas­ci­nat­ing inter­tidal areas. We will vis­it the ancient wood­lands that flank Loch Sunart and the two huge glacial-cut lochs, Loch Shiel and Loch Sunart, nes­tled in the land­scape and each are sur­round­ed by a rich and diverse vari­ety of woodlands.

Beach­es have beau­ti­ful names like the Singing Sands and Samala­man Bay that boast white sands that look out over the Inner Isles of Eigg, Rum and Muck to the south­ern tip of the Isle of Skye. The beau­ty of Ard­na­mur­chan is bound­less and it often feels like the land that time forgot.

After spend­ing time in Ard­na­mur­chan the adven­ture con­tin­ues as we head south towards Kin­tyre. This day will not sim­ply be a day of trav­el, but one filled with many pho­to­graph­ic loca­tions to choose from such as the moun­tain views from the shores of Loch Linnhe, the ancient trees of Bar­cal­dine For­est or the stun­ning coast at Loch Melford. There are too many to list here but a lunch stop at the pic­turesque fer­ry town of Oban is a must! That evening we will arrive at our sec­ond hotel, the West Loch Hotel sit­u­at­ed just out­side the tran­quil fish­ing vil­lage of Tar­bert at the top on the Kin­tyre Peninsula.

Kin­tyre is a 30 mile long penin­su­la that runs from Tar­bert in the south­west of Argyll and Bute its norther­ly point, down to its most souther­ly point, the Mull of Kin­tyre and at no point does it exceed 11 miles across. Because of its shape, Kin­tyre has two very dif­fer­ent coastlines.

To the west where the sun sets there are sandy beach­es with gin clear waters that look out over to the isles of Jura and Islay. The east­ern coast­line is only accessed by small ​‘B’ roads and is a haven of fas­ci­nat­ing wave-cut rock for­ma­tions in many rocky bays that look out over the calm water of the Kil­bran­nan Sound and offer the most astound­ing views of the Isle of Arran from any­where in Scotland.

We will vis­it both these coast­lines dur­ing our time in Kin­tyre and explore, Skip­ness, and Claon­aig along with Ronachan, Chleit and the huge sandy beach of West­port Bay as well as ven­ture into the ancient oak forests above Car­radale and at Kil­ber­ry. Kin­tyre is often over­looked by pho­tog­ra­phers who head north on the A82 towards Glen­coe, but we can assure you it is a land­scape rich in diver­si­ty and pho­to­graph­ic oppor­tu­ni­ties. After our days in Kin­tyre we will grad­u­al­ly head north along the banks of Loch Gilp, Loch Fyne and past the mighty Loch Lomond on our way to Glasgow.