Inverness Outlander and Whisky Tasting Tour

Discover top Highlands attractions, including Loch Ness and sites featured in the Outlander series, with this small group tour from Inverness. Visit the local sites with your local guide around the Inverness area, from the famous Loch Ness to Outlander sites Clava Cairns, Culloden and more and learn the history of the Scottish Clans. Try our world award winning local Gin and Whisky. A fun half day of things to see and try all in one trip for guests wanting a little taste of the highlands with there short time.
Local Guide
Small Group Tour
Comfortable Air Conditioned Vehicle
Tickets for Cawdor Castle
Gin & Whisky

Meeting Point

1a High St

1a High St, Inverness IV1 1HY, UK

For Meeting Point pick ups Outside the front of Inverness Town Hall in city centre, IV2 3BJ
We will have a name board showing for you.

What's included:

• Umbrella's in-case of a Scottish Day
• Tickets with Audio to Cawdor Castle

Not included:

• Sunshine we are in Scotland

What to expect:

Duration: between 5 hours and 6 hours

Loch Ness

, , Scottish Highlands

Travel along the shores of Nessie's home, Loch Ness the most famous loch in the world and gaze upon Urquhart Castle.

30 minutes

Great Glen Distillery

Loch Ness Centre, Drumnadrochit, IV63 6TU

Drumnadrochit is a village on the shores of Loch Ness, known famously as the home to the Loch Ness Monster. Drumnadrochit is filled with novelty shops where Scottish clan items and other Scottish staples can be enjoyed. We also visit Great Glen Gin Distillery, Scotland’s smallest distillery where they offer world award winning free Gin tastings made from the waters of Loch Ness so you get a true taste of Nessie.

30 minutes

Culloden Battlefield

Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Culloden Moor, IV2 5EU

The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, outside Inverness. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, ending the Jacobite rising of 1745. Culloden Marks the spot of the last major battle on British soil, the wild moor at Culloden is the resting place of 1,500 Jacobite and 50 Government soldiers who fought and died here. Today, you can walk along the battle lines and see the graves of the soldiers beside the memorial cairn in the centre of the battlefield.

45 minutes

Culloden Viaduct

Inverness, IV2 5EJ

Designed by Murdoch Paterson, Chief Engineer of the Highland Railway, the bridge was built between 1893 and 1898 and is still in use today. The curved stone structure with concrete foundations is 1800 feet in length. This makes it the longest masonry railway viaduct in Scotland. It has 29 arches in total. One wider central arch over the river, with 14 on each side. It was built using local red sandstone from the Leanach Quarry on Culloden Moor. As a place of special architectural interest.

15 minutes

Clava Cairns

Balnuaran of Clava, Scottish Highlands, IV2 5EU

The Clava Cairn is a type of Bronze-age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava. They fall into two sub-types, one typically consisting of a corbelled passage grave with a single burial chamber linked to the entrance by a short passage and covered with a cairn of stones, with the entrances oriented southwest towards midwinter sunset. In the other sub-type an annular ring cairn encloses an apparently unroofed area with no formal means of access from the outside. The Clava Cairns serves as inspiration for the fictitious Craigh na Dun standing stones in the book and TV series Outlander. the famous “Cleft stone” that transports the main character Claire back in time can be found here at Clava Cairns.

30 minutes

Cawdor Castle

Nairn, IV12 5RD

Cawdor Castle is a castle in the parish of Cawdor. It is built around a 15th-century tower house, with substantial additions in later centuries. Originally a property of the Calder family, it passed to the Campbells in the 16th century and today is still owned by the Campbells which is now home to the Dowager Countess Cawdor,
The earliest documented date for the castle is 1454, the date a licence to fortify was granted to William Calder, 6th Thane of Cawdor. However, some portions of the 15th-century tower house or keep may precede that date. Architectural historians have dated the style of stonework in the oldest portion of the castle to approximately 1380.
Along with its Beautiful Gardens is a must see and popular stop for visitors.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included