Tour Scotland Video Northern Lights Off The Scottish Coast

Tour Scotland video of the Northern Lights off the coast of Scotland. The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is a spectacular natural phenomenon which can occasionally be seen in the night sky over Britain. In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis, or the northern lights, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Galileo in 1619. Auroras seen within the auroral oval may be directly overhead, but from farther away they illuminate the poleward horizon as a greenish glow, or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. The best places to see the Northern Lights in Scotland include; Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands, Caithness, Aberdeenshire and the Moray Coast, Isle of Lewis, Isle Harris in the Outer Hebrides and the most northerly tip of Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, the far north west of Scotland, Wester Ross, the Cairngorms, Galloway Forest Park, Ranoch Moor and Perthshire, Angus and the coast of Fife, Calton Hill or Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive To Red Cuillin Mountains Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland video of a drive to the Red Cuillin mountains on ancestry visit to the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The Red Hills, Na Beanntan Dearga in Gaelic, are also known as the Red Cuillin. They are mainly composed of granite which is paler than the gabbro, with a reddish tinge from some angles in some lights, and has weathered into more rounded hills with vegetation cover to summit level and long scree slopes on their flanks. The highest point is Glamaig, one of only two mountains between 2,500 and 3,000 feet on Skye, the other being Garbh-bheinn, part of the small group of gabbro outliers surrounding Blà Bheinn.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive Single Track Road Towards Black Cuillin Mountains Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland travel video of a drive on a single track road towards the Black Cuillin mountainson ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides. The highest point of the Cuillin, and of the Isle of Skye, is Sgùrr Alasdair in the Black Cuillin at 3,255 feet. The Cuillin is one of 40 National Scenic Areas in Scotland. A single track road or one lane road is a road that permits two way travel but is not wide enough in most places to allow vehicles to pass one another, although sometimes two compact cars can pass. This kind of road is common in rural areas across the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The term is widely used in Scotland, particularly the Highlands, to describe such roads.

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Tour Scotland Video Drive A87 Road From Portree To Sligachan Isle Of Skye

Tour Scotland travel video of part of the drive on the A87 road from Portree towards the The Cuillin range of rocky mountains and Sligachan on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides. The Sligachan Hotel sits at the junction of the A87 and the A863 on the Isle of Skye. The hotel is a magnet for hill walkers, lying in the very shadow of the majestic Black Cuillin which dominate the surrounding landscape.

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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes Opening Parade Highland Games Blairgowrie Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of the bagpipes music of Blairgowrie and Rattray District Pipe Band followed by Chieftain Laurence Blair Oliphant of Ardblair and Gask and games officials at the opening parade of the Blairgowrie Highland Games in Bogles Field, Essendy Road, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. The annual Games and Gathering take place on the first Sunday after the first Saturday in September in beautiful Perthshire.

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