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The Travel Connection This Fully Inclusive Guided Vacation Features: presents a Special Group Departure • 9 nights in hotels listed Scottish Clans • 9 daily hot breakfasts (B) • 6 dinners (D) including a festive Scottish Evening in Edinburgh & KYLE OF INVERNESS • Expect an unforgettable evening LOCHALSH Loch Culloden July 30 − August 8, 2020 of music, ceremony, theater, and Ness 10 Days / 9 Nights / 17 Meals dance with reserved seats for the Depart U.S. for Glasgow overnight Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pitlochry July 29th – tour begins July 30th Glencoe • Go behind the scenes at one of Loch Lomond

$3,399 LAND ONLY per person ’s famous distilleries for a Culross tour and a tasting. based on double occupancy GLASGOW Single Room Supplement $1,175 • Discover 800 years of history as EDINBURGH Optional Travel Protection Insurance is available you explore – home to Clan MacLeod for 30 generations. Start City Overnight Stops End City Tour Highlights: All CIE Tours Guided • Brodie Castle Vacations Include: • Palace of the Holyroodhouse • Sightseeing by luxury coach • Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre • Professional tour director • Castle • All on-tour transportation including shuttles and ferries • • Welcome get-together drink with your group • Eilean Donan Castle • Free Wi-Fi on coaches so you can stay connected along the way • Isle of Skye • Deluxe documents wallet and backpack to keep you organized • Stirling Castle • All local taxes, hotel service charges & handling of one suitcase per person

Hotels – 9 Nights: To book or for more information contact: The Winnock Hotel | Drymen (2) HOSTED BY: Balmacara Hotel | near Kyle of Lochalsh (2) Mary Curtis & Lauren Baxter THE TRAVEL CONNECTION Glen Mhor Hotel | Inverness (3) 435.628.3636 Norton House Hotel & Spa | near Edinburgh (2) 1363 E. 170, S. #202, St. George, UT 84790 [email protected] or [email protected] NOTE: The features, itinerary and hotels shown for this tour are based on 2019 departures, and may be subject to change for 2020 departures.

This tour is subject to CIE Tours’ booking guidelines and cancellation penalties. Refer to General Conditions on your CIE Tours group contract. CST# 2021285-20. 10 Day Scottish Clans & Castles Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Glasgow Arrival & City Tour Day 6: Loch Ness Cruise & Urquhart Castle Tour begins at 2:00 PM at your hotel. Enjoy a Glasgow city tour Photo opportunities await as you visit the picturesque ruins of to see George Square, Glasgow Cathedral, Kelvingrove Park, and Urquhart Castle, once Scotland’s largest castle, and embark on a Glasgow University all featured in the popular TV series “Outlander.” cruise of Loch Ness. Stop at the Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre to Enjoy a welcome drink with your group before dining independently. discover how British Government forces defeated the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie, ending the Jacobite rising. Return to Inverness for a Day 2: Stirling Castle & walking tour before dinner at your hotel. (B, D) Visit Stirling Castle, a mighty stronghold that dominates the surrounding plain, before some free time on your own for lunch. Visit Day 7: Johnstons of Elgin & Brodie Castle the 14th-century Duone Castle, with its 100-foot-high gatehouse and Tour Johnstons of Elgin to discover the history and craftsmanship well-preserved . The formidable structure has been used as behind their fine woolens, then enjoy some free time for lunch. Explore a film location for many productions, including Monty Python and the 16th-century Brodie Castle, with its fairytale towers and turrets set on Holy Grail. Next, head to a whisky distillery for a sampling, then go spacious grounds. The house contains fine furnishings, a collection of back to Glasgow to dine at your hotel. (B, D) paintings, and a library with over 6,000 volumes. Return to Inverness and enjoy a free evening and dinner on your own.(B) Day 3: Glencoe & Eilean Donan Castle Head into the majestic Highlands and journey by Loch Lomond, Day 8: Sheepdogs & Culross Walk across Rannoch Moor and through Glencoe, often considered one mmerse yourself in farm life and enjoy a demonstration of dogs of Scotland’s most spectacular and beautiful places. Stop for photo obeying commands to round up sheep. In Pitlochry, explore and have opportunities along the route. Treat yourself to Scottish goods at a lunch independently. Continue to Culross for a walking tour around woolen mill and continue your journey north to the romantic Eilean the charming 16th-century town, recently used as a filming location Donan Castle. (B, D) for “Outlander.” Highlights include the Town House, Culross Palace, and the remains of Culross Abbey. Enjoy free time in Culross before Day 4: Isle of Skye & Dunvegan Castle heading to your hotel near Edinburgh for a Scottish evening with a Explore the Isle of Skye and learn the history of Bonnie Prince farewell dinner and traditional entertainment. (B, D) Charlie. Travel to Dunvegan Castle, the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland. Admire the Peninsula as you travel to Day 9: Edinburgh Tour & Palace of Holyroodhouse Kilt Rock, a 200-foot-high sea cliff with huge, vertical basalt columns. n Edinburgh, see how the medieval townhouses along the Royal Mile Visit Flora MacDonald’s grave in Kilmuir Graveyard and stop in in the heart of the Old Town are in stark contrast to the Georgian for free time. (B, D) mansions of the 200-year-old New Town. Tour the impressive Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official Scottish residence of the Queen, and Day 5: & Scenic Train Ride walk through the majestically furnished chambers. The rest of the day Visit the ruins of Armadale Castle, a country house that was home is free. July 30 to August 20 departures enjoy the Royal Edinburgh to the MacDonalds. The house was abandoned a century ago but Military Tattoo on the Castle Esplanade. (B) the gardens are still beautifully maintained.Embark on a ferry ride to Mallaig and transfer to a train for a ride through some of Scotland’s Day 10: Tour Ends in Edinburgh most picturesque scenery. Travel from Fort William to your hotel in Your program ends after breakfast. (B) Inverness. B, D)

(B) Breakfast (L) Lunch (D) Dinner NOTE: The features, itinerary and hotels shown for this tour are based on 2019 departures, and may be subject to change for 2020 departures.

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