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How to claim your GeoCoin: Please take a minute to answer a few simple questions Terms and conditions: about your geocaching experience. The survey must be completed to be eligible for a GeoCoin. Geocoins are limited and will be awarded on a first come, first served basis. Only one GeoCoin may be Please send me a Silver Explore Royal Deeside awarded per family/address. Only fully completed GeoCoin (15 codewords/stamps required) GeoTour passports will receive a GeoCoin. Please send me a Gold Explore Royal Deeside You must sign the physical cache log for each GeoCoin (20 codewords/stamps required) geocache you find and record your find on geocaching.com to be eligible. Name...... VisitAberdeenshire does not accept any Address...... responsibility for loss, damage or injury, arising directly or indirectly from taking part in the Explore ...... Explore Royal Deeside Royal Deeside GeoTour. Town/city...... For more information to help with planning your GeoTour Passp rt Postcode/Zipcode...... trip or what to do in and Aberdeenshire go to www.visitabdn.com Country...... Earn a Gold or Silver GeoCoin

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12 1 Aden Country Park 24 Glenshee Ski Centre 1 KEITH TURRIFF 37 2 25 Grampian Transport MINTLAW Museum PETERHEAD 3 Benholm and Johnshaven CRAIGELLACHIE 38 Heritage Hub 26 Grassic Gibbon Centre ABERLOUR 29 4 Bennachie Visitor Centre 27 Haddo Country Park 19 DUFFTOWN HUNTLY 5 Castle 28 Haddo House A95 FYVIE CRUDEN Braemar Highland 29 Huntly Castle 28 27 11 6 A90 BAY Games Centre 30 Kildrummy Castle BALLINDALLOCH 32 TARVES 16 7 Castle Fraser 31 Kinnaird Head Castle ELLON GLENLIVET 22 43 8 Corgarff Castle and Lighthouse A96 Ferry to Orkney OLDMELDRUM 36 9 Craigievar Castle 32 Leith Hall A95 to AVIEMORE NEWBURGH 10 Crathes Castle 33 Macduff Marine Aquarium 44 11 Cruden Bay Golf Club INVERURIE 34 Murcar Links Golf Club 12 Delgatie Castle LocationsTOMINTOUL across Royal Deeside BALMEDIE 35 Museum of Scottish 13 Drum Castle ALFORD Ferry to Shetland Lighthouses 14 Duff House 36 Newburgh Beach STRATHDON 15 Dunnottar Castle 37 Peterhead Golf Club 16 Forvie National Nature 38 Peterhead Prison ABERDEEN Reserve Museum 17 Fraserburgh Golf Club A90 Join the adventure! 39 Royal Aberdeen NATIONAL PARK 18 Fraserburgh Heritage Golf Club Centre Let your GPS guide you on 40 an Royal adventure around ABOYNE A92 majestic scenery and hidden gems. Special geocaches BANCHORY 19 Fyvie Castle Distillery have been hidden at 20 sites across Royal Deeside 20 Gardenstown Heritage 41 St Cyrus National through forest trails, around lochs and at breathtaking A93 Centre Nature Reserve viewpoints. There are GeoCoin prizes for cachers who BRAEMAR collect21 15Garioch or more Heritage codewords Centre or42 business The Lecht stamps.Ski Centre 22 Glen Garioch Distillery 43 Tolquhon Castle Good Luck! 23 Glenglassaugh Distillery 44 Trump Aberdeen Earn your coins by collecting codewords and/or stamps from participating local businesses. When you visit, just ask to have your passport stamped. You can find details of participating businesses at www.visitabdn.com/geotour How to take part in the FETTERCAIRN Collect 15 – Earn your Silver Coin INVERBERVIE Explore Royal Deeside GeoTour LAURENCEKIRK Please fill in one box for every geocache codeword you uncover or every participatingGOURDON business stamp that you collect. 3 To get started, visit www.geocaching.com JOHNSHAVEN 41 and follow the below steps. There’s also a handy A90 introduction video for beginners. A90 to ST CYRUS 1 2 3DUNDEE 4 5 • Register your username. Basic Membership is free. • Find the Explore Royal Deeside GeoTour and begin your adventure. 6 7 8 9 10 - On the website go to Play/Geotours - On the app use the search function to find GeoTours and search for GT60 • Our GeoTour caches (GT60) have been hidden at 11 12 13 14 15 20 sites around Royal Deeside and each geocache has a unique ID (starting GC). • When you find an Explore Royal Deeside GeoTour Collect 20 - Earn your Gold Coin cache, use this passport to record the codeword written inside the cache. Record an additional 5 codewords / business stamps below: • Log your visit and geocache find on www.geocaching.com 16 17 18 19 20 (you can also add to the photo gallery). • Repeat for each cache that you find.

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