3. The Footsteps Tour

Day One
Leave Edinburgh at 8.30am for majestic Loch Lomond; via Inveraray to lunch at wholesome and tasty food at Kilmartin House with a visit to the standing stones at Temple Wood and Dunadd Fort (with a footprint that marks the capital of the Scots). To Oban, and the ferry to the Isle of Mull; stay at the highly cherished Argyll Hotel on the Island of Iona or at the Seaview B&B.

Iona Abbey

Day Two
A tour of Iona Abbey, the cradle of Celtic Christianity, followed by a leisurely half day boat trip to Staffa to travel in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott, and Mendelssohn to name but a few who were inspired by the island with its famous Fingle's Cave, and a panoply of puffins and seals. Stay at the Argyll Hotel or at the Seaview B&B.

Day Three
Leave Mull for glorious Loch Awe and Loch Tay; enter verdant and mysterious west Perthshire, perhaps search for the famed yet elusive Cave of Caerbannog; stay at the hideaway, Ardeonaig Hotel above the loch.

Day Four
Explore west Perthshire including visiting Europe's oldest living tree; find the evidence of the footsteps of the early Christians as they moved across this artery of Scotland, from Iona to Dunkeld. Visit Dunkeld Cathedral at the ancient pre-Christian confluence, and drink from one of the sacred healing wells around the old ‘city’.

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