Northern Scotland
Whisky country, Highland history and Loch Ness, all within easy reach of Inverness.
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Northern Scotland is whisky country, first and foremost. Speyside, the valley of the River Spey, runs from the Cairngorm mountains down to the Moray Firth. It holds more than half of Scotland's malt distilleries, and names you'll know from the bottle (The Macallan, Glenfiddich, The Glenlivet) sit within a short drive of each other. About an hour and a quarter west, Inverness is the capital of the Highlands, a compact riverside city at the head of Loch Ness. Culloden Battlefield, where the last Jacobite uprising ended in 1746, is 15 minutes from town. Cawdor Castle and the bottlenose dolphins off Chanonry Point are both within half an hour. In between, you'll find pine forest, purple moorland and a scattering of castles... and a dram waiting at the end of every day.
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