Private tours: This tour is available most days from 1 May to 30 September (NOT 31 July-12 August - please click here for further information

Wild moorland, mountain and coastal scenery Learn about the Highland Clearances, Viking history, and much more

Click on thumbnail, above, for a more detailed map of this and other routes. The light blue line - MEY - is the Castle of Mey itinerary

We leave Inverness northwards by the A9. In the Cromarty Firth we sometimes see seals. Beyond the Dornoch Firth we pass by the estate of Andrew Carnegie into Sutherland. We leave the main road for Dornoch, the charming county town of Sutherland, where we have a 35/45-minute break. Have a coffee at one of several cafés, walk the pleasant streets, visit the 13th century cathedral (right) where Rocco, baby of Guy Ritchie and Madonna, was christened in December 2000. Shortly after leaving Dornoch we come in sight of an astonishing statue, 27m (90') high. This is of the First Duke of Sutherland, who did many improvements in Sutherland but whose agents were involved in the most notorious of the Clearances in the Highlands in the 19th century.

We continue north and stop for lunch at Lybster's scenic harbour where a building linked to the herring fishing is now the Waterlines Café and exhibition.
We continue to the Castle of Mey, situated with beautiful views over the Pentland Firth. We spend an hour-and-a-half here at the castle; its gardens; andbefore driving east and then south through Wick, county town of Caithness, and thence to Inverness.

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