Hundreds of beautiful photos to view and to buy.
Hundreds of beautiful photos to view and to buy.
Rampant Scotland Directory! Listed on this page are the links to sites which cover either the whole of Scotland or a number of regions.
Other areas and aspects in the Rampant Scotland site of interest to the virtual tourist include:
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Long and extensive. Sections include Physical Characteristics of Scotland describing rivers, mountains and lochs, Discovering Scotland with a tourist portrait of Scotland, including an Edinburgh Tour, particularly Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town. There are also links to Scottish Regions and Towns . VisitScotland, the national Tourist Board, has a very large site full of information on most parts of Scotland. Full of illustrations, navigation is aided by an active map and a useful menu. As well as touring all the main tourist areas of Scotland, the they have provided information on travel to and from (and within) the country together with an accommodation guide, places to visit and practical information for the visitor. The National Trust looks after a wide range of properties around Scotland. The Web pages give a brief description of each one, together with opening times, price of entry, facilities and a few illustrations. The Trust properties Places to Visit include: This extensive site is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory. The number of Scottish locations and visitor attractions covered with detailed descriptions and many good-size illustrations is impressive. Beverley Mercer has already created a number of useful and informative Web pages (particularly on hill walking in various parts of Scotland) and in response to the frequent requests she receives about places to visit in Scotland she has created this long list of all the well known (and some not so well known) places which are worth a visit around the whole of Scotland. This is the official site for US travel to Britain, produced by the British Tourist Authority, providing everything you need to know about visiting the UK (including Scotland, of course). How to get there, where to stay, what to eat, see and do...you name it, they’ve got it. They can provide brochures (including a a free "Scotland Vacation Planner"), maps, travel consultants and a toll-free information line or e-mail enquiry service. Written by Joanne Winters whose grandmother was born in Harris, this is a very detailed travel guide to a growing number of areas, towns and islands of Scotland. Written by someone who clearly knows her subject, the pages cover how to get to the various locations, where to stay, what to see and where to eat. Areas and places covered include:
In addition, a large number of the Islands around Scotland have an individual page to themselves, including:
Brief details of attractions and places to stay, with links to pages with more information, categorised by geographic area or by such subjects as boat trips, cruises, wildlife centres and nature reserves, ecotourism, walks, sports activities, castles, museums, gardens and places to eat etc. A travel guide for Scotland with hotel listings, places to eat out, attractions, activities, fishing, local information etc all over Scotland. Lots of Javascript pages to help you find what you want. The Gazetteer for Scotland is a geographical database, featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The site provides maps for the different regions of Scotland, and brief descriptions (often with an illustration) of the geography and history for many of the places included. Currently, the Gazetteer covers about 50 percent of the country, focusing on the larger regions, with more places being added regularly. |
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A range of towns and villages with a wealth of detail and excellent, sensibly sized graphics (including some delightful line drawings). The towns and villages covered (a number of them with street plans as well as illustrations) so far include :
In addition to describing these towns and villages, the site also has historical background to such items as The McGregors and of course, Rob Roy. Also covered are Blair Castle and Castle Menzies. Illustrations, information and opening times of the sites owned by Historic Scotland around Scotland, from Shetland to Galloway. Extensive, professional site of guides, attractions, events, features, food - and postcards to send after your virtual trip. Extensive information on all aspects of travel to Scotland covering Area Tourist Boards, BTA Offices around the world, Tour Operators, long list of hotels, events, attractions and travel by air, land and sea.
Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA) has well over 400 members ranging from Historic Buildings to modern Science Centres throughout Scotland. There is a site search engine which produces a brief description, opening times, admission prices, locations and e-mail contact addresses for each location.
Information on a range of subjects and links to other sites covering regions, attractions, castles, clans, cities, events, fishing, hiking, great Scots, history, humour, newspapers, sports, tours, travel tips - and whisky. A comprehensive A-Z Gazetteer of country houses, stately homes and palaces in Scotland with descriptions, hours of opening and sprinkled with illustrations. This is the Scotland section of a world-wide travel guide. It provides basic information about Scotland including a climate chart for Edinburgh, Lerwick and Oban (the rainfall in Oban is amongst the highest in the country). This guide provides some history, list of attractions, activities and recommended reading. Much of the information is contained in one large file which, even though it comes all the way from Australia, does not take too long to dowmload at the speed of light. It is well worth it and the narrative is well sprinkled with links to graphic illustrations. These can be viewed as a "slide show" and include Inveraray Castle in Argyle, Portree in Skye, Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall and the lighthouse near Old Man of Storr.
Following a format of a narrative description, a picture and ideas for touring in each area, Electric Scotland's Tourist Pages cover Perth and Kinross (including many of the individual towns in the area) South of Scotland (from Galloway and Ayrshire to the Border Country) Western Isles (covering the Inner and Outer Hebrides) The Highlands, plus Royal Scotland and Orkney and Shetland Islands. The site also has notes on the cities of Edinburgh, and Glasgow. and pages on the town of Falkirk. To complete the picture there is a section on activity holidays and also a table of mileage and journey times covering major Scottish towns and to/from England and descriptions of Scottish Tourist Board Books to Help Tourists including recommended campsites and guest houses. This site covers a number of towns across Scotland (and into England and Wales too) providing a large picture and a map showing the shops along their High Street or equivalent main road. There are links to Web sites for some of the businesses listed. Keeping it up-to-date must be a major undertaking!
Scotavia Images provides a quality aerial photography service for Scotland. Several hundred of their excellent photographs, largely of the north of Scotland and the Highlands, have been included in their site. They give a unique view of castles, golf courses, glens, Highland scenery, towns and villages, stately homes, events, archaeology, events - and oil platforms. Prints from the large gallery are available for purchase. If you have ancestors with a Scottish Highland origin, they can provide an aerial view of the area they came from! This is a large, well written and illustrated site covering Castles and Abbeys as well as a number of more general tourist attractions. The Abbeys include:
The more general pages include:
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Photographer & Writer Rachel Elizabeth Windsor has produced a collection of photographs and writing. The photographs are of a variety of things, from churches to magicians, shopping malls to graffiti. The photo galleries on the site have particular emphasis on Scotland but there are pictures from all over the world as well. Created to allow you to record the places where you had a positive experience and you think they deserve a special mention - where the service has gone that "extra mile" for you. It might be a visitor attraction, shop, accommodation: in fact, any kind of service-giver anywhere in Scotland. Of course, once a good number of comments have been added, it will be a useful recommendation for places where customers have had good service. Comprehensive information, history and maps for all of Scotland's waterways - Caledonian in the Great Glen in thae Highlands and Crinan canal in Argyll as well as the recently renovated Forth and Clyde canal and Union Canal to which it will soon be connected via the Falkirk Wheel. Similarly, the British Waterways site has detailed coverage of Forth and Clyde Canal and Monkland Canal as well as Union Canal plus Crinan Canal and Caledonian Canal. Cruise Scotland is a marketing consortium providing a comprehensive guide to Scotland's cruise liner ports of call. In addition to providing information on the ports, there are pages on tourist attractions in the area, mainly based on National Trust properties. The places involved are:
A tourist guide to Scotland with plenty of illustrations, concentrating on Edinburgh, Perthshire, the Highlands, Borders - and castles. A tour of Scotland in words and pictures (thumbnails which lead to larger versions for those you want to see in detail). You can take the whole tour or access areas at random using the map. The author is keen on hillwalking but the site covers a lot of other parts of Scotland as well. Designed as an aid to travellers in Scotland a number of aspects are covered including a good accommodation section and a number of monthly features. The site also hosts "Ask Hamish" where you are invited to seek answers to your Scottish travel-related questions. While many folk want to see the wilder parts of Scotland, many of us tour around by car and want to go to places which are within walking distance of our transport. This site will take you on an illustrated journey through Scotland and show you sights that can be seen from the roadside or close by. Along the way are the mountains, glens, lochs and rivers that make up the landscape. Also the historic buildings and monuments that form a great part of the Scottish culture and history. Itinerary guides for sale which enable travellers to follow a pre-planned route around Scotland. They explain the interesting features along the way and come complete with routing directions. There are two itineraries available - the Grand Tour (16 days) and cities, lochs and mountains (12 days) plus an excerpt from one of them. This site provides the opportunity for visitors and residents alike to plan an integrated public transport journey within Scotland or from Scotland to main points in the UK using public transport - either rail, bus, coach, ferry, air and Glasgow Underground or any combination. On the journey planner page you can select which mode or modes you wish to travel by. When it is needed, full information on connections are given to make transfers as smooth as possible and fares information is also shown (where available). This Guide Book is designed to be read onboard a train on the routes described and they have hundreds of items of interest. There are three railway route guides covering the routes Edinburgh to Inverness via Ladybank, Edinburgh to Inverness via Stirling and Edinburgh to Aberdeen. Hans Walter Arends is an enthusiast about Scotland and the Scots (he's written a book about Scotland "Die kleine Schottlandfibel") and this Web site, written in German, is designed to help Germans understand a bit more about various aspects of Scotland.
Informationen über Schottland - Die Menschen, das Land, die Kultur - bei uns erfahren Sie das Wichtigste. The popularity of Scotland as a tourist destination for Germans has resulted in this Web site from Germany, written totally in German.
Elisabeth and Teije Smit from the Netherlands have travelled to a number of destinations, including Scotland. Their site provides (in English and Dutch) information, history and lots of photos including castles, prehistoric sites and panoramic views of Scotland. There is also an account of their journeys in Scotland.
The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh are a major tourist attraction in the city - at all times of year. The site also links to satellite gardens such as Younger Botanic Gardens at Benmore, Logan Botanic Gardens in the south-west and Dawyck Botanic Garden Essential British Gardens is a digest of some of the finest gardens and arboretums throughout Britain and is based on the author's experiences and those of other keen gardening friends. The North of Scotland and South of Scotland sections have links to a wealth of Scottish gardens, including: Information on the Scottish Wildlife Trust reserves in various parts of Scotland. Elsewhere can be found Forvie National Nature Reserve in Aberdeenshire.. Another site of ecological interest is Cove Conservation Park an innovative visitor centre. The Park covers 50 acres and is home to over 600 animals and birds, and features over 120 different species of plant life, rare breed animals, wildlife habbitats, solar power and wind power demonstrations. Auchterarder Ornithology provides a narrative description of what can be seen in that area. Come and shake hands with the otters is the introduction to Monreith Animal World in south-west Scotland where you will findgoats, ponies and pot bellied pigs as well as otters. Part of a larger site covering the UK, the Scottish properties described here include: The Scottish Communities Web Database is a dynamic collection of links to village, town, city and area specific websites in Scotland. The locations covered is being added to all the time and is particularly useful for the smaller communities around the country.
Part of a larger site concentrating on Southern Scotland and Edinburgh, this section has some beautiful illustrations of waterfalls (many using the Scots word "linn" for waterfall) around Scotland and some special lansdcapes, including: A Japanese site with an active map of the UK leading to illustrations of all the main bridges. The Scottish bridges covered are:
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Many of Scotland's distilleries were established on Speyside, among the northern foothills of the Grampian mountains. Seven of these distilleries and one cooperage (making the barrels for the whisky) have come together under the banner of 'The Malt Whisky Trail' to offer visitors to the area the opportunity to experience first-hand the history and the process behind the production of one of the world's greatest drinks.
All the distilleries listed are open to the public and there are details of each distillery: An A-Z guide to distilleries which are open to the public, particularly those in Speyside and the "Malt Whisky Trail". The MapWise series offers maps on CDs in several ranges with different levels of detail. Hillwalker maps from ISYS Outdoors offers a comprehensive Windows CD-ROM guide to walking, covering the whole of the British Isles. All products integrate to form a single system on your PC. We all like to look at illustrations of the Highlands and Islands and Colin Palmer has over 500 wonderful images of Scotland here, covering the mainland and many of the individual Western Isles (and other parts of Britain too). Indexed by thumbnails to reach the individual photographs, the main sections (they're growing all the time) are:
The Stock Scotland stock photo library holds over 150,000 high quality photographs of Scotland with 10,000 images currently on-line covering the Highlands, landscapes, castles, wildlife, natural history and Scottish business, industry, lifestyle, culture and much more.
A massive collection of over 1,000 high resolution photographs, 360 degree views and QuickTime movie panoramas of mountains, islands, sea water lochs, fresh water lochs and rivers of Scotland. And in addition to all those views from the tops of mountains, there is an extensive set of photos on rivers and whitewater kayaks; coastline and sea kayaks; windsurfing; and aerial photos. A lovely collection of Scottish mountain scenes via thumbnails and an index to good size images illustrating the Isles of Arran and Skye as well as the Southern and Central Highlands. Prints are also available for purchase. The site is the product of three years' photography of the Scottish landscape, particularly the rugged mountain areas. There are a good number of stills available to view on the site and you can purchase panoramic prints or arrange for specific shoots in areas not covered.
A great collection of richly coloured photographs taken across Scotland, in some cases from a microlight flying across the landscape. The large collection includes pictures of Glencoe, Glen lyon, Loch Lomond, Drummond Gardens, Loch Tay, Loch Katrine and the Trossachs, the Wallace Monument, Stirling and autumn and winter scenes. And many more! Lots of lovely, artistic photography by a professional photographer taken from all around Scotland on view and on sale. And if you have a particular interest in an area or subject, just drop a line with your requirements. "PJ" is Peter-Josef Meisch from Germany who has created an excellent, illustrated travel guide to Scotland from his experiences cycling round Scotland. This is not a "chocolate box" guide - rain and broken spokes are a feature as well! The selection of photographs, however is first class. You may wish to browse through his entire trip but if you are interested in specific locations (he covered a lot of ground) here are the individual pages: A large gallery of landscape photograpy by Graham Macfarlane divided into sections on lochs, cities, glens, isles and castles. There is a selection of panoramic prints available for secure online purchase.
Large collection of photos which you can view as a slide show or via area menus. Areas include Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland Islands, North West Highlands, Eastern Highlands, Argyll, Loch Lomond and The Trossachs, Tayside and Fife, Glasgow, Edinburgh, South West and Lothian and Borders. Covers tourist destinations such as Inverness, Oban, Pitlochry, Callander, St Andrews and Stirling with information on places to visit, sport and recreation, places to shop, eating out. The best part each town's description is the scenic town centre map and local area map which can be printed out. A gallery of personal pictures of Glasgow and Clydeside (including Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvin Hall Sports Arena, Park Circus, River Clyde, Dumbarton Rock and St Patrick's Well) and Loch Lomond (including Balloch, Ben Lomond, Inversnaid and Luss). 20 beautiful photos of landscapes of Scotland. There are several pages of contact sheets showing the images contained in the gallery. When clicked, you can see a bigger image of your chosen photograph. From the end of May to the end of July, 1998, Paolo and Diego made a tour of about 150 Scottish prehistoric sites. This work is in coordination with SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network) with the intention of producing an educational website and a CD-ROM about the stone monuments of Scotland. There is an online travel diary covering the eight weeks searching for clues to the builders of the impressive stone circles of Brodgar and Callanish, the enigmatic stone alignments of Mid Clyth, the magnificent burial chamber of Maes Howe and many other wonderful monuments. Lots of illustrations, active maps and a relaxed narrative (sorry about the Scottish weather folks - this was one of the wettest Junes on record). More of a non-profit organisation than a company, all the images on this site can be used for any non-commercial purpose - the owner only asks for a link to his site. 60+ illustrations, including Princes St, Royal Mile, Leith, Grassmarket, Bridges, Calton, Views from Salisbury Crags plus the Pentland Hills. There are also illustrations from around Scotland - Lothians, Borders, Skye, Glasgow, Lowlands and Highlands. David and Christine have created a Web site with over 500 lovely photographs of Scotland from the Highlands to the Lowlands and many points in between. Nicely indexed and with good-size thumbnails you can spend many happy hours touring sunny Scotland via this well-illustrated site. Another illlustrated tour of Scotland, covering a lot of ground including:
Konstantin Hoshana spent nine months hiking in UK and produced a massive photo library of his travels, especially of North England and Scotland. His Scottish illustrations cover such areas as:
A large collection of good photographs taken on a holiday in 1994. The places covered are too many to list here but here is a selection of some of the more interesting and some of the more out of the way places:-
Here are pictures from Felicia's tour of Scotland which included Edinburgh during the Tattoo and Festival, Braemar, Dornoch, Portree and Glasgow with thumbnails and the full size image. Dan and Gary Du Pont have created a slide show via a Java applet with 58 photos of their trip through Scotland in September 1998. The Scotland page of a site with over 200 photos from around the British Isles including a dozen from Scotland. |
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Andy Arthur from Helensburgh has lots of photographs of Scotland, Sailing & the Sea and a growing section on Scottish War Memorials, including a number in the remoter parts of Scotland. A guide to pottering about on boats on the West Of Scotland - marinas, lochs, anchorages, places of interest, weather, charters, tides, canals, chandlers and a photo gallery. This collection of photos consists of all types and size of fishing boats, trawlers, Seine-netters, Crab and Lobster potters from across Europe and includes many Scottish boats. There is a list of 7000 named fishing boats with illustrations of some of them. These photographs can be purchased from the list. There is also a collection of Links to maritime and fishing communities with a Scottish flavour.
Full of beautiful scenery pictures of Scotland in a digital pictures gallery plus descriptions which provide a virtual trip to Scotland. Sections include:
Type in "Scotland" and the search engine will find 1,700 "personal use" graphics to give visual picture of Scotland. Scot-Photo has lots of photos of Scotland, free to download for personal use. There is also a personal digital library available. Catriona Fraser has assembled a series of atmospheric black and white photographs of Castles and Landscapes as well as Pictish Stones with thumb-nails linked to larger versions (which are also avilable for purchase as prints). Scotland in Pictures is a collection of land and townscapes taken in black and white. The selection is continually growing into an extensive collection of views of Scotland. Unique prints of the photos are available for purchase. Discover the beautiful scenery and natural habitats through the unique photography of Michael Macgregor. Highland and Islands Photo Page provides lots of photos by Joanne Winter as part of her "Internet Guide to Scotland". She also provides links to a lot of other photo collections so if it's an illustrated guide to Scotland you are looking for this is well worth a look! Joanne, in her guise as the "Chatelaine" (keeper of the keys of the castle) has taken a latge number of her excellent graphics and created a Digital Postcard site - so you can send a virtual postcard from your virtual visit to Scotland! Some Pictures of Scotland has nearly thirty illustrations, mainly of castles and buildings. Part of a larger site related to the Clan Fraser etc. No photos this time but a lengthy Trip Report on one man's touring holiday in Scotland It includes subjective but honest opinions about accommodation and the sights around Scotland. Photographs of Scotland by Beverley Mercer (whose hillwalking pages are already packed full of her photography) has gathered together a sparkling collection of mainly highland, island and loch scenes. If you decide to download one for your Windows desktop your only problem will be deciding which one to choose (I took Ben Lomond but could be back for more!)The pages are divided into Central Scotland and North-West Scotland as well as East Scotland plus Skye and Sutherland The Scottish Highland Society is based at Strathclyde University and includes a gallery of 62 photos from around Scotland plus a mailing list. There are still more photographs to look at or download at the Tartan Shopping Mall as it contains the Scotsman Calendar. Another site from a well known photographer, with its associated graphics can be found at Donald Ford Gallery. The selection is not large and displayed in a small Java applet. Accompanied by appropriate background music Pete's Pictures of Scotland is a nicely presented set of pictures, including Eilean Donan Castle, Wester Ross. Dave's Bonnie Scotland is a collection of illustrations fom Dave's holiday in Scotland. Scottish Treasures is another collection of beautiful photographs of Scotland with pages on castles (Duntulum, Tioram, Eilean Donan and Urquhart), Prehistoric Stones and Highland Scenery and just when you think you're at the end up pop more pages, this time on Loch Shin and the Fairy Glen. Freefoto has a very large collection of graphics from around the world, available for downloading. The Scottish content includes a collection of photos of Staffa and Eigg. A recent addition is illustrations of the Royal Yacht Britannia Scottish Scenery is a collection of pictures taken of Scotland on their travels including maps so you can view the Scenery by location. Alba! A visit to Bonnie Scotland has a range of illustrations including Blair Castle, Cawdor Castle, standing stones and cairns. Some of the graphics are quite large. ClanRon's web site has a large selection of pictures from around Scotland, including places such as the Devil's Bee Tub and the Grey Mare's Tail. Dave Henniker has lots of pictures of Edinburgh (Princes St, Royal Mile, Leith, Grassmarket, Bridges, Calton, Views from Salisbury Crags) and Scotland generally (Lothians, Borders, Skye, Glasgow, Lowlands and Highlands) and they are available for use on another Web site, provided you give credit and a link. Georges Cohen from France loves both Scotland and photograpy and has a series of pictures of Scotland taken while sailing around the coasts and islands. Scottish Photography has a selection of lovely images divided into four sections - Air, Fire, Water, Earth by an Edinburgh based photographer. Limited edition prints are available. Andra Graphs has a collection of photographs of Scotland derived from annual visits "back home". Toubab in Scotland is a pictorial tour through the magnificent scenery of the far North East of Scotland in Springtime from John O'Groats in Caithness to Aviemore on Speyside. Not just Scotland but the site covers various views of Edinburgh Castle (including a panoramic moving view), the 18th green at St Andrews, Inverness Castle, The Forth Bridges, the Edinburgh Tattoo - and more on the way. With a significant URL of "scotlands.com" this new site provides some excellent graphics illustrating The Colour of Scotland and some collections of historic photographs of Old Edinburgh and Old Falkirk. These photos can be used in a feature of the site - Scotland's Postcardz (their spelling not mine) where pictures on the site can form the basis of an "e-mail postcard service". The site also hosts Helensburgh Heritage Trust. Scotland in Focus Picture Gallery boasts the largest library of pictures about Scotland and a number of them are on display on their Web pages. Pictures from Scotland features around 30 illustrations from around Scotland including Edinburgh Zoo and Cawdor Castle and Inverness Castle
The archive section of the Internet magazine Scottish Radiance
has an expanding series of articles describing lighthouses such as
If you want to stay at a unique location then Corsewall Lighthouse near Stranraer is the place for you since it is the only working lighthouse in Scotland where you can obtain accommodation! You can also have activity and walking holidays based at Rua Reidh Lighthouse. Elsewhere, there is a List of Lighthouses of Scotland - just a list of names with dates of when they were first lit.
You can find out more about some of the Northern Lighthouse Board lights with a brief history; over a period of time this list will be added to. There are also Webcam Views from the Mull of Galloway lighthouse. A company that will help you to arrange a romantic wedding set in Scotland in the setting of an exclusive Scottish venue, ancient castle or country
mansionhouse. The locations described on the site include: Candacraig can organise a wedding with a difference whether it's in a remote Highland glen, a boat on Loch Ness or a sophisticated ceremony in a castle with a ceilidh to follow. They can provide everything for that special occasion from choice of venue to full co-ordination of the day - and honeymoons too. Two ladies with a Scottish and Irish background with unflappable natures and a network of reliable service providers and suppliers can create the perfect solution to create the most romantic and unforgettable wedding. They will work with you to meticulously plan and manage each aspect of the preparations for your wedding, discuss ideas and progress of your plans and be there on the day so you can relax and enjoy every minute. Some good graphics and text on a mixture of aspects of Scotland including Edinburgh and Glasgow, some History, food and drink, bagpipes, clans and Rabbie Burns. This is the Scotland section of a UK travel guide to cities and towns. It is chatty and helpful but although it covers clubs and pubs it has an odd concentration on skateboard parks! Information on some of the towns is limited. The Scotland at a Glimpse book contains tear off vouchers, which when presented enables one person to a free admission to over 50 of Scotland's tourist attractions such as the Royal Yacht Britannia, Edinburgh Zoo, Balmoral Castle. |
Where else would you like to go in Scotland?
