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INVEREWE GARDENS
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 Inverewe Gardens Scottish Tours in the Highlands - Puffin Express

This tour is available as a private tour any day of the year that the gardens are open. Duration from Inverness back to Inverness: 7 hours, including 2½-hours at the gardens. 		Tours in Scotland and the Highlands
Click on thumbnail, above, for a more detailed map of this and other itineraries. The green line is the Inverewe itinerary


We depart Inverness and cross the Black Isle before turning west towards Achnasheen. On by Loch Maree (right) and the Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve before passing through Gairloch. After leaving Inverewe, we pass by Loch Maree

Then to Poolewe and Inverewe Gardens.

Inverewe Gardens Scottish Tours in the Highlands - Puffin Express Inverewe Gardens Scottish Tours in the Highlands - Puffin Express
We have two-and-a-half hours at these world-famous gardens - this is also our lunch stop.

Loch Ewe was a major naval base in WW II and those with an interest in the naval history of that conflict may make an optional trip up the west side of the sea-loch where they can view the old gun emplacements and two memorials - the first to the USS William H Welsh sunk in Loch Ewe in a storm, the other to the Murmansk Convoys which left Loch Ewe on the grim Arctic run. This can be combined with a shorter visit to the gardens.


Click above for larger pictures of the memorials to the Arctic convoys
Loch Ewe is not as famous as some other WWII British naval bases - Portsmouth, Scapa Flow - but was vitally important after the latter had been attacked by U-47. The next link gives more information on the Murmansk convoys, including the ill-fated PQ17 - keep going through this link, you'll find Loch Ewe mentioned eventually!

After leaving the gardens we continue north and follow the Atlantic Coast past Gruinard Island of sinister memory before coming to Dundonnell. We pass Corrieshalloch Gorge, one of the most spectacular canyons in the Highlands. We return to Inverness by Marybank and Beauly - an almost completely circular tour.

The suggested tour duration time of seven hours is based on direct runs from Inverness to Inverewe and back with brief "comfort stops". If you wish many photo stops en route and a visit to Corrieshalloch Gorge then you should allow at least an hour extra time.
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