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Wild & Sexy Skye High Scotland

22-24 Sept 2010  (Wed-Fri): 3 days 2 nights Skye High Tour with Haggis Adventures

This trip was quite nice...got to travel with tour mates from Australia, New Zealand, US, Brazil, Taiwan, & Hong Kong. Too bad the weather was kinda sucky...gloomy and 'liquid sunshine' most of the time so pictures didn't look that nice. 

Our tour guide, Andy was pretty good...very informative & humorous. =) This tour gave me the chance to know more about Scottish history and culture...and learnt how to wear a kilt. :) Traveled a lot throughout the 3 days but I don't remember all the names of the places that we stopped by. All I could remember was that there were a lot of mountains & lakes...breathtaking scenery...many lochs & glens...and signboards in Gaelic words that I don't understand...lol!! Alright...time for pictures!!

Sept 21 (Tues): Embarked on our adventurous journey with a backpack and took a night bus from London to Edinburgh...9-hours on the coach...not fun. =.= 

Sept 22 (Wed): Finally arrived Edinburgh at 7.30am. Freshened up a lil' then headed straight to Haggis Adventures office to begin our 3-days 'Skye High' tour.

First stop...The National Wallace Monument. Had to hike up to the monument on a misty & chilly morning...what a good exercise for both of us who were still half-awake. =.=

The National Wallace Monument.

Hamish the hairy coo...moooo mooo!!

As I mentioned earlier...breathtaking scenery along the way. Andy introduced the 'speed-dating' game for us to get to know our tour mates and also the 'spot the tractor' game that went on for the entire trip. :p

Lunch break. I had Venison burger without knowing that it was deer meat...but it tasted pretty good though.


More greeneries...beautiful scenery but it can be a lil' boring after awhile. Besides, we didn't get to sleep well the night before so kept dozing off in the bus. :p

Green green green....mountains, river, lake....

Glencoe. Glen means valley.

Going along the Great Glen...picturesque scenery!!!!

Fort Augustus...near Loch Ness. (loch=lake)

Highland Clan Show...good place to learn about Scottish history. Our tour mate very bravely stripped his jeans to wear the kilt...lol!! Btw...guys don't usually wear anything (not even boxers) when they wear a kilt...and we 'verified' this fact...lol!!

Morag's Lodge...our accommodation for 2 nights...quite a cozy place. :)

Live music, dance, drink, party...the angmoh way.

Sept 23 (Thurs): 2nd day of the tour.

On the way to Isle of Skye

Eilean Donan Castle

Some pictures around Eilean Donan Castle

The most expensive toilet in the world...a castle...lol!!!

Pitstop before crossing the bridge over to Isle of Skye 

Crossing the bridge to Isle of Skye

Some waterfall along the way

The Red Cuillin Mountain

Beautiful scenery at Isle of Skye

Stopped by Portree...the largest town on Skye for lunch. Spotted some local school students.

Had some yummy fish & chips & haggis for lunch. Yes...I tried Haggis!! This one was pretty good...tasted good!



The wind was crazy at this waterfall...can see from my hair...lol!! I think it was the strongest wind ever that I've experienced...so strong to the extent that waterfall becomes water-up. :p

Jumpshots at Loch Ness

Quiz night at the hostel with our fellow tour mates. I didn't know most of the answers...haha! But our group got the best group name...'Blonde & Black, sexy in the sack'...it was the Australian girl who came up with this name. :p

Learning to wear kilts. Guess what...the guys were 'free-balling'...lol!!!

Sept 24 (Fri): Walked into the woods to find this Peter Pan's author's summer house overlooking the river.

Pitstop for picture with Nessie...finally the sky is clear!! =)

Souvenir shop with lotsa Nessie!!  

Culloden Moor Battlefield

Lunch on the way back to Edinburgh

The end of our fun-filled trip...arrived Edinburgh at bout 6.30pm.

Beautiful city of Edinburgh

25 Sept 2010 (Sat): Stayed back one more day in Edinburgh after our 3-days tour and walked around the city for an entire day. Edinburgh is 'small' enough for us to cover most of the attractions by foot in one day. =) Initially we were planning to take the free walking tour but decided not to coz it would be faster if we walked ourselves...besides Edinburgh is quite a safe city for us to explore ourselves with a map. :p

Stayed at Royal Mile hostel for a night. The staff were really nice and helpful...we had to check out early but coz we were only leaving at night...they allowed us to store our bags and take a shower before we headed to the coach station for our night bus. =)

St. Giles Cathedral

Saw someone getting married at the Parliament House and managed to get a picture with the bagpiper. 

Edinburgh University...the Law & Medicine faculty.

Greyfriars Kirk & Cemetery

Grassmarket

Edinburgh Castle...we didn't go in though.

The castle looks nicer from this view...beautifully sitting on the mountain. 

We just simply walked and passed by this nice slope.

The lady in red skirt was our dorm mate...found out about this dance & live music thingy from her. 

Princess Street Garden between the old town & new town. As usual, I was doing my crazy jumpshots again. :p

The Scott Monument 

Along Princess Street...shopping area in Edinburgh.

Old Calton Cemetery...so many cemeteries in Edinburgh.

Going up Calton Hill...The Nelson Monument & Dugald Stewart Monument in the background.

The National Monument...memorial to those who died fighting for the UK in the Napoleonic Wars...looks like the Parthenon in Athens.

Great view of Edinburgh city from Calton Hill =)

More picturesque scenery from the hill...Arthur's Seat is the mountain in the background. 

The New Parliament House & Robert Burns Monument...I'm basically just taking photos of the exterior of different buildings...haha! :p

The Holyrood Palace...not Hollywood. :p Queen Elizabeth II spends a week here every summer.

Along High Street. The little boy in in kilt was so cute!!

Night photos of the city as we were heading to the coach station for our night bus back to London.
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