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2018-19 EXPLORE MORAY SPEYSIDE Moireabh Taobh Spè visitscotland.com WELCOME TO MORAY SPEYSIDE 1 Contents 2 Moray Speyside at a glance 4 World of whisky 6 The Moray Coast Trail 8 Great outdoors 10 Moray’s heritage 12 Natural larder 14 Year of Young People 2018 Welcome to… 16 What’s on 18 Travel tips MORAY 20 Practical information 24 Places to visit listings SPEYSIDE 38 Display adverts Fàilte gu Moireabh 29 Leisure activities listings 48 Display adverts Taobh Spè Lossiemouth beach 31 Shopping listings 50 Display adverts Every day is different in Moray Speyside. Start your morning by wandering 32 Food & drink listings around a charming fishing village, before walking to a secluded cove or a 51 Display adverts sandy beach where dolphins play in the surf offshore. Then head into the heart of ‘Malt Whisky Country’ and follow 33 Tours listings Scotland’s Malt Whisky Trail®, making sure 54 Display adverts you plan time to visit some of Speyside’s 33 Transport listings legendary distilleries. Then step back in 52 Display adverts time to our Pictish past at one of our 33 Events & festivals listings ancient castles, heritage centres and 54 Display adverts mystical standing stones. You can round 34 Local services listings off your day with a well deserved meal of delicious local fare and a craft beer or 34 Family fun listings malt whisky. 35 Accommodation listings And tomorrow? Well, you could get active 56 Display adverts and have a go at thrilling watersports, such 58 Regional map as sea kayaking and surfing, or get on your walking boots and discover waymarked trails. Relax and fish for salmon on the River Spey or play a round on some of Scotland’s most Cover: Elgin Cathedral picturesque golf courses. Days and days of Credits: ©VisitScotland. Kenny Lam, adventures are all here ready and waiting Damian Shields, Grant Paterson, for you to enjoy during the Year of Young People 2018. 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Quality Assurance awards are correct as at January 2018. 2 MORAY SPEYSIDE MORAY SPEYSIDE AT A GLANCE MOIREABH TAOBH SPÈ AID AON SEALLADH The Royal Burgh of Cullen Start your day shopping in a historic market town, have a picnic lunch in the dunes of a sweeping beach before rounding off the day touring a distillery and sampling the very finest Scotch whisky. Then the next day... well, that’s up to you. You can make endless discoveries in Moray Speyside, in enchanting places with real character and meet real characters in beautiful places. Forres, Findhorn, Burghead Elgin and Lossiemouth superb stretches of golden sand and Hopeman Elgin Cathedral has been drawing at Lossiemouth. Stop to smell the roses in Forres’ pilgrims since it was founded in award-winning parks and gardens. 1224. Enjoy a moment of peace Fochabers, Keith, Buckie Then head for the harbour in here at one of Scotland’s most and Cullen nearby Findhorn to watch the beautiful medieval buildings. Nestling on the banks of the sailing boats come and go. River Spey, Fochabers is an Visit Gordon & MacPhail, the attractive village where you’ll In Hopeman, you’ll find two long world’s leading malt whisky find Baxters Highland Village, sandy beaches and a great 18- specialist, and go for a fascinating Christie’s of Fochabers and hole golf course. Step back into free tour of Johnstons of Elgin, Gordon Castle. prehistory at Burghead which was renowned for its luxury cashmere once the site of a large Pictish fort. garments. In Keith, you can visit Strathisla Distillery, Scotland’s oldest Why not walk some of the Moray You can take your pick of two continuously operating distillery. Coast Trail while you’re here? classic links golf courses and two VISITSCOTLAND.COM MORAY SPEYSIDE AT A GLANCE 3 Bow Fiddle Rock, Portknockie Highlights Look out for rare Pictish sculptures and Scotland’s tallest gravestone at Elgin Cathedral, which is known affectionately as ‘the Lantern of the North’. Go green at the Findhorn Foundation, a fascinating eco-village which hosts a programme of workshops and events. It’s home to the Phoenix, a shop packed with organic produce, gifts and books. At the WDC Scottish Dolphin Centre, you can watch for Watch fishermen land their catch dolphins in Spey Bay and at Buckie harbour, and stroll along take a tour of the ancient Cullen’s broad bay which is backed icehouse. by a spectacular viaduct. Speyside Don’t miss... Follow the Malt Whisky Trail® The atmospheric ruins through Speyside, where you can of Balvenie Castle and tour world-famous distilleries and Auchindoun Castle, both visit the award-winning Speyside near Dufftown. Cooperage. Bow Fiddle Rock, a Dally for an afternoon in Dufftown, spectacular arch-shaped the ‘Malt Whisky Capital’, and rock formation, which can wander around Aberlour, an be seen from Portknockie. attractive village by the River Spey. The colourful beach huts Tackle a section of the Speyside which line Hopeman’s Way, a long-distance walking route, beautiful east sands, great and admire the dramatic Grampian for a photo opportunity. Mountains. Duffus Castle, near Elgin VISITSCOTLAND.COM 4 MORAY SPEYSIDE World of Whisky Saoghal an Uisge-Beatha Strathisla Distillery, Keith There’s only one Malt Whisky Trail® in the world, and it’s right here in Moray Speyside. Follow the distinctive brown and white trail signposts to discover some of Scotland’s finest distilleries and the region’s cooperage where you can learn more about the whisky-making process and the area’s proud whisky heritage. The Malt Whisky Trail® will take you Benromach Distillery in Forres is 1920s and was used to mark the past seven working distilleries, a the smallest working distillery in barrels of whisky. historic distillery and the award- the region. The Macallan Distillery is set to winning Speyside Cooperage. Each The nearby Dallas Dhu Distillery reopen during summer 2018 after distillery has its own traditions and may no longer produce whisky, but refurbishment to bring more methods when it comes to whisky you’ll find it’s a fascinating time delicious whisky flavours and production, from malting the capsule that’s worth exploring. collections of your favourite tipples. barley to the size of the stills. Visit Look out for the impressive whisky for full Founded in 1786, Strathisla www.maltwhiskytrail.com barrel stencil which dates from the information on the trail. Distillery in Keith is the oldest VISITSCOTLAND.COM WORLD OF WHISKY 5 More whisky highlights Glenfarclas, The Balvenie and The Macallan are just some of the malt whiskies produced in the region. How many have you tried? Glenfarclas in Ballindalloch has been owned and run by the same family since 1865 and is one of only a few independent distilleries left in Scotland. The Balvenie Distillery uses a special combination of craftsmanship and natural alchemy for its whisky. It’s the last distillery in the Highlands to still have its own malting floor, and it also grows its barley on site. Take a ride on Britain’s most northerly heritage railway, the Keith and Dufftown Railway. This 11-mile line links the whisky centre of Dufftown to the market town of Keith. Whisky heritage Visit the Dufftown Whisky working distillery in the Highlands The Speyside Cooperage is the Museum, where you can see and is the home of Chivas Regal. only working cooperage in the UK fascinating artefacts, learn where you can experience the art Glen Grant in Rothes was about whisky smugglers and of coopering. Witness the master established by the Grant brothers hear the story of whisky in craftsmen hard at work making in 1840 and has a lovely Victorian Moray Speyside. whisky casks using traditional garden. From the Glenlivet Visitor methods and tools and have a go at Centre, follow the signposted The first spirit flowed from the stills making your own mini-cask! of Glenfiddich Distillery on Christmas paths and walk through Day in 1887. It’s now the world’s Glenlivet valley in the favourite single malt Scotch whisky. Check out footsteps of notorious whisky www.maltwhiskytrail.com smugglers of the past. The Glenlivet Distillery, home of for more details on the world’s ‘the single malt that started it all’, largest concentration of whisky is in Ballindalloch. distilleries VISITSCOTLAND.COM 6 MORAY SPEYSIDE THE MORAY COAST TRAIL Slighe costa Mhoireabh The East Beach at Lossiemouth If you like walking, lace up your boots and pack a sandwich because you’re in for a real treat.