Argyll & the Isles

Scotland’s west coast in miniature: sea lochs and fishing villages, the long finger of Kintyre, the Kyles of Bute, ancient Kilmartin Glen and the whisky town of Campbeltown. Green, watery, and gloriously quiet.

Cowal & the Kyles

• Dunoon & Cowal — Argyll's Best-Kept Secret, a Ferry from Glasgow.
• Puck's Glen — Scotland's Most Breathtaking Fairy-Gorge Walk, Near Dunoon.
• Tighnabruaich & the Kyles of Bute — Cowal's Stunning Secret.
• Loch Riddon — The Quiet Sea-Loch off the Kyles of Bute.
• Benmore Botanic Garden — The Giant Redwood Avenue, a Hillside of Rhododendrons & a Victorian Fernery.

Loch Fyne & Mid-Argyll

• Inveraray — The Fairytale Castle Town on Loch Fyne.
• Loch Fyne — Scotland's Longest Sea Loch — Oysters, Castles & the Herring Coast.
• Tarbert — The Stunning Loch Fyne Village at the Gateway to Kintyre.
• Skipness — One of Scotland's Oldest Castles, a Seafood Cabin & a Coast Walk.
• Crinan — The Magical Little Village Where the Canal Meets the Sea.
• The Crinan Canal — Britain's Most Beautiful Shortcut (Ardrishaig to Crinan).
• Kilmartin Glen — 5,000 Years of History, a Great Wee Pub & the Standing Stones.
• The Kilmartin Standing Stones — Nether Largie's 5,000-Year-Old Setting.
• Temple Wood & the Kilmartin Cairns — The Glen's Circles and Its Line of the Dead.
• Kilmartin Church & the Carved Stones — Crosses, Knights & the Poltalloch Slabs.

Loch Awe & Lorn

• Kilchurn Castle — The Campbell Ruin at the Head of Loch Awe.
• Loch Awe & St Conan's Kirk — Scotland's Longest Loch and Its Strangest Church.
• St Conan's Kirk — The Handmade Masterpiece on the Shore of Loch Awe.
• Oban — Whisky, Fish & Chips — and Why We Slept Just Down the Road.

Kintyre

• Campbeltown — The "Wee Toon" at the End of Kintyre.
• Springbank Distillery, Campbeltown — The Whisky World's Great One-Off.
• Glen Scotia — A Surviving Jewel of Campbeltown's Whisky Capital.
• Davaar Island — The Secret Cave Painting You Walk to at Low Tide.
• Machrihanish — Wild Camping on Kintyre's Wild Atlantic Beach.
• Southend & Dunaverty — The Wild End of Kintyre.
• Keil & Southend — Where St Columba First Set Foot in Scotland.
• Glenbarr Abbey — The Gothic House That Was Never an Abbey.
• Ballochroy — A Famous Stone Alignment & a Wild-Camp Coast Looking Out to Jura.
• The Kintyre Way — Scotland's 100-Mile Walk Down a Whole Peninsula.
• A Pebble Beach on the Kintyre Way — Our Favourite Wild Camp.
• National Cycle Route 78 — the Caledonian Way, Campbeltown to Inverness.

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