The Highlands & Islands of Scotland

Our guides, Cameron & Glenn Broughton, will meet us at Glasgow Airport.  They are knowledgeable, kind and fun people! Glenn is British and Cameron is American. They reside in England and have been guiding travelers on Sacred Journeys for many years.

Immediately our adventure begins as we travel along the banks of Loch Lomond through the spectacular scenery of the Trossachs National Park to our hotel in Oban.

En route we’ll stop for lunch at a converted chapel and be treated to homecooked food. Oban is a small but bustling port town with a beautiful bay and a colourful history. Our hotel for two nights is right on the Promenade with gorgeous views across the Bay.

We gather for our Intention Setting Meditation and a welcome drink

Dinner at one of Oban’s restaurants – Glenburnie House Hotel

We start the day with an orientation meeting to set the scene for the tour ahead. Then we’re off to the Kilmartin Valley with over 350 Neolithic and Bronze Age sacred sites! This entire landscape was held to be sacred and was the focal point for spirituality by our distant ancestors.

We visit Nether Largie Standing Stones believed by Alexander Thom to be an astronomical observatory from nearly five thousand years ago. Close by are the twin Templewood Stone Circles set in a copse of trees. It is a perfect location for a short walk takes us to Nether Largie cairn that we can enter where we conclude our time in the Kilmartin Valley.

On the way to our Oban Hotel we visit the Kintraw Stone, a site aligned to the solstices, located with wonderful views over the Sound of Jura. See if you think the stone looks like a wise old man…

Free-choice dinner not included in tour price – Glenburnie House Hotel

We catch the early ferry from Oban to Craignure on Mull, a 45-minute sailing. We then have an hour’s scenic drive through Mull to the ferry terminal over to the sacred Isle of Iona. Close by, the Nunnery gardens are full of flowers, a peaceful place for a guided morning meditation.

Our day on Iona includes Iona Abbey, with its beautiful acoustic Chapel. St. Columba established a monastery here in 563AD that was eventually destroyed by the Vikings.

Following these raids a Benedictine Abbey was established over 800 years ago. Still an active Christian community today the Abbey is open to visitors and includes St Columba’s cell and beautifully carved tombstones of many kings and chieftains.

We also offer a hike up Dun I the only hill on Iona. This is a hike as there’s no footpath so good walking boots/shoes are required! Energy lines converge on the summit and the Pool of Eternal Youth is located there. We will meditate to connect to our spirit and angelic guides here.

Iona is on a leyline connecting it to the energies of Callanish stone circle further north in the Hebrides that we can detect by dowsing.

We catch the return ferry to Mull where we stay for one night.

Dinner at hotel – Isle of Mull Hotel

We start this day with a visit to Lochbuie Stone Circle on the Isle of Mull, a faery circle surrounded by mountains, its location is idyllic! Here we will have a simple ceremony, strengthening our connection with the land. We then catch the ferry to Oban, saying farewell to the islands and onward to our palatial hotel in Pitlochry in the Central Highlands, where we will stay for two nights.

The rest of the day is free for you to explore Pitlochry that has a good selection of shops and restaurants as well as two whisky distilleries (that offer guided tours & tastings!) and nearby Blair Castle.

Free-choice dinner not included in tour price – Pine Trees Hotel

We are aware that we are in a place of power, mystery and magic, where several leylines cross and the oldest surviving goddess tradition in Scotland is still kept alive by the locals. Mt Shiehallion to the north is the protective guardian and source of power, a fairy-mountain and portal into the inner Earth.

Our first visit is to the sixteenth century St Mary’s church at Grandtully that has a wonderful ancient painted wooden ceiling and was built on a power centre originally used by the gnostic Culdee church. We then visit the energetic stone spiral of Croft Moraig, which is in reality a horseshoe of stones surrounded by a bank and a stone circle, a design that is reminiscent of Stonehenge in England.

Lunch at Fortingall Hotel

After lunch we’ll visit the Fortingall Yew, believed to be the oldest tree in Europe at 5,000 years old. It is the entrance into the magical valley of Glen Lyon and provides us with a living connection to the ancient wisdom of this land, because this tree started its life when the stone circles were being built. Heading west along the River Lyon to the foothills of Creag nan Eildeag we’ll walk up a hill track to the Praying Hands of Mary, a stunning ‘natural standing stone’ looking very much like it was placed there by our ancestors. It is well worth the climb uphill to experience the serenity present and the spectacular views of Glen Lyon Valley.

Dinner at the hotel – Pine Trees Hotel

We start the day with another scenic drive to Stirling to visit one of the largest and most important castles in Scotland, Stirling Castle. This magnificent castle was home to most of the Scottish Royals until England and Scotland were united. Many Scottish monarchs were crowned at Stirling, including Mary Queen of Scots. We can’t think of a better place to learn about Scottish history! Lunch at Stirling Castle.

After lunch we’ll visit the medieval capital of Scotland, Dunfermline, where we find the Elen and Belinus Earth energy currents coursing through the Dunfermline Abbey. We will be happy to show you how to dowse for these energies with rods or pendulum. A leyline passes through here connecting it with many sacred sites further south in England including the medieval capital of England, Winchester. Dunfermline Abbey is one of Scotland’s most important cultural sites housing the remains of many kings and queens of Scotland along with Robert the Bruce whose tomb lies close by the pulpit.

Our next port of call will be Edinburgh, the present-day capitol of Scotland, for a three night stay.

Free-choice dinner not included in tour price – Bruntsfield House Hotel

Today is free for you to explore the aspects of Edinburgh that appeal to you, from Holyrood Palace (home of the Scottish parliament), Arthur’s Seat (with spectacular views over the city), Mary King’s Close (an underground labyrinth of seventeenth century streets), Scottish National Museum, to Edinburgh Castle and shopping on The Royal Mile and much more.

Free-choice dinner not included in tour price – Bruntsfield House Hotel

This final day includes a guided visit to Rosslyn Chapel. Made famous by the DaVinci Code, it is a remarkable building full of secrets, Green man carvings and esoteric symbolism that our guide will tell us about. It is like no other chapel or church you have been to before. We’ll also visit the ruins of Rosslyn Castle across the valley from the chapel and discover a secret cave close by.

Farewell dinner at hotel – Bruntsfield House Hotel