Tour Scotland short 4K Autumn travel video clip, with Scottish music, of beautiful trees from the A821 Duke's Pass route on ancestry, history visit and trip to the Trossachs, Scottish Gaelic: Na Tròiseachan, in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. The wooded hills of the area may be considered to represent a microcosm of a typical highland landscape, and the woodlands are an important habitat for many species. The area has long been visited by tourists due to the relative proximity of major population centres such as Glasgow and Stirling, and remains popular with walkers, cyclists and tourists. The Great Trossachs Path, one of Scotland's Great Trails, is a 30 mile route suitable for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. It runs between Callander in the east and Inversnaid on the banks of Loch Lomond in the west, passing along the northern shores of Loch Katrine and Loch Arklet. Mesolithic hunter-gatherer fisher communities are thought to have travelled up lochs and through glens of the Trossachs after the last Ice Age, at least 9000 years ago. Early farmers may have been active here from 4000 BC onwards. Highland cattle Drove routes and hill passes were the first main routes through the area. In Victorian times shooting lodges, specifically for visiting hunting parties in the stalking or shooting season, were developed in the areasin conjunction with the development of Deer Forests. The Trossachs have attracted and inspired writers, artists and musicians for hundreds of years, enticing visitors to explore and marvel at the wild landscapes and rugged hilltops that were once, before the end of the 18th Century, secret and foreign. In 1803 three great English writers; William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and fellow poet Samuel Coleridge explored the Trossachs. They were captivated by the area’s landscape and aura of romance. In 1691 the Reverend Robert Kirk, a minister in the Trossachs published his famous book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves and Fairies. It was subtitled ‘an essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean invisible people, going under the names Elves, Fauns and Fairies’. Not long after that he mysteriously disappeared. In spite of his religion, like most people in the 17th Century he believed in witchcraft, spirits and pagan rituals. In fact he was so obsessed by the study of fairies (known as Urisks) that he described their appearance, ways, habits and secrets in his book. Local people believed that by revealing their closely guarded secrets, he annoyed the spirit people and they killed him. The ‘murder’ took place on Aberfoyle’s Doon Hill, which is a strange, knoll-like mound. The Reverend’s body was found there on 14 May 1692, dressed only in a nightgown. Autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage or simply foliage in American. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30. The equinox at which the sun approaches the Southern Hemisphere, marking the start of astronomical Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The time of this occurrence is approximately September 22. @tourscotland #scotland #autumn #trees #fall #shorts
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