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The Northern Lights
- if you're lucky you might see one of the north's most spectacular natural phenomenons... |
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Beaches
The Highlands are home to some of Britain's best beaches |
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Waterfalls
The Highlands is home to Britain's most spectacular waterfalls |
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Natural Attractions
You could say that the Highlands themselves were just one big natural attraction. Take the sheer variety of mountain landscape as an example. You can soak up the atmosphere of Glencoe, or take in the craggy rock terraces of the Torridon hills or, say, the weird mountain profiles of Inverpolly which lies in the Northwest Highlands Geopark - and see all this without even leaving your car!
You can peer dizzyingly down and into the depths of the Corrieshalloch Gorge (from a nice safe viewing platform and bridge!), or admire the curious stack of the Old Man of Storr beyond Portree. You will need your walking boots for two of our spectacular waterfalls, the Falls of Glomach in Kintail, and the Eas Coul Aulin by Kylesku (but there are lots more within a few moments of the road).
Clothing all this spectacular rock are other features worth getting to know. The pinewoods of Speyside, descendants of the ancient woodlands; the oakwoods on the way to Ardnamurchan, Scotland's own temperate rainforest; or the unique landscape of the Flow Country of Caithness. All of these are magical places.
Then there is the coast. Dazzling beaches by Morar and the Moray Firth, endless sands by Nairn, Dornoch, Thurso - and special, secret coves along the north coast to Durness and beyond. The Clo Mor cliffs (also by Durness) are the highest in mainland Britain, the Stacks of Duncansby are another icon of the north.
From the roadless wilds of Knoydart to the gentle firths of the east, the natural Highlands are a visual delight.
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