July 2010 – brand new Travelodge Hotel opening 19 August 2010 on Waterloo Place. Tours depart opposite hotel.
June 2010 - we are pleased to announce that we have a brand new tour bus on the road. Please click here to see photos.
Heart of Scotland Tours are licensed by the Performing Rights Society to play music on our vehicles and support the PRS’s goal to ensure songwriters and composers are fairly rewarded for their work.
Nov 2009 - we are delighted to announce that our bus tours have once again been rated 5 stars by Visit Scotland. This reflects our high quality service and personal touch.
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Customer Comments
Hi,
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the Loch Ness and Legends Tour (Saturday, 25 October, 2008). By the time we hit our first rest stop, I realized how much I appreciated being in a small coach. We didn't have to wait in huge lines for food with tons of other people eating at the same place, for one thing!
The smaller coaches made it feel much more personal, and helped me feel less like one of the mass, a faceless tourist. I loved how much I was able to learn about Scottish history and folklore from our guide, who was incredibly knowledgeable and wanted to share that knowledge with us.
Another thing I absolutely loved was the music that was played. So much thought went into it, to select specific songs based on what we were seeing or the part of the country we were in. I appreciated being able to hear traditional and contemporary music beyond the bagpipes we traditionally associate with Scottish music (though I do love hearing bagpipes!). It was so beautiful to hear that music while looking at the misty terrain and lochs. The tour is definitely worth the price. Thanks for a great time in the highlands and all of the little details that make your tour wonderful. Michelle, USA November 2008
Major Clan and family lands covered on Rosslyn and the Roman Border in geographical order:
All tours depart fromBus Stand ZE (previously Bus Stand E),Waterloo Place, Edinburgh. MAP
£34.00 per person. Concession rate £32.00 (students, over
60's and under 12's)
Sycamore Gap at Hadrian’s Wall
The tour travels to the amazing and mysterious 15th century Rosslyn Chapel, across the historic Scotland/England border and south to Hadrian’s Wall, a World heritage site celebrating the power – and northern limit – of the Roman Empire..
Rosslyn Chapel (admission: adults £7.50, concessions £6.00) has always been mysterious. Scotland’s best-kept secret has now achieved worldwide fame since the publication of ‘The Da Vinci Code’. An architectural gem, its superb stone carvings are still not fully understood. Many visitors leave with their own theory but all are amazed. The short walk through the glen to ancient Roslin Castle is also fascinating.
Given the The Da Vinci Code's subject matter, it's no surprise that the beautiful and highly ornate 15th-century chapel features in it. It has long been the subject of much theorising and conjecture about its origins and the meanings of its famous stone carvings. Many of these are amongst the best of their kind in Europe, with many depicting symbols relating to Old Testament texts and characters, the mysterious medieval order of the Knights Templar and to Freemasonry. Incredibly, some carvings even seem to show American plants such as maize and aloe vera, carved fifty years before Columbus's voyages, while others have thus far defied interpretation.
We travel South to charming Melrose for lunch. Melrose Abbey is believed to be the final resting place of King Robert the Bruce’s heart. Scotland’s great writer Sir Walter Scott (whose monument dominates Princes Street in Edinburgh) lived nearby and loved this beautiful area.
One of the highlights of this tour is crossing the ancient Scotland/England border at Carter Bar in the Cheviot Hills. We follow in the footsteps of feuding clans and families, known as Border Reivers, who fought a series of violent raids across the border hills until the end of the 16th century. Today it represents the political border between two historic and proud nations.
Hadrian’s Wall is one of the most important monuments built by the Romans and is a stunning example of their engineering skills. It cuts Britain in half just south of the Scottish border. It is the best-known frontier in the Roman Empire and stands as a reminder of one of the world's greatest civilizations. Built almost 2000 years ago to contain the fierce Picts in Caledonia it stretches for 55 miles and was designated a World Heritage Site in 1987.
We travel to Steel Rigg in Northumberland National Park where you can go on a nature walk to Sycamore Gap, one of the most dramatic and photographed stretches of the Wall. The ‘Robin Hood Tree’ has acquired its nickname because it featured in a scene in the film "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves" starring Kevin Costner.
Alternatively your guide will drop you off at Housesteads Fort (National Trust), the best preserved of 13 outposts along the Wall (admission: adult £4.50, concessions £3.80, child £2.30) and collect you on our return to Scotland’s capital city.
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SUMMER: From 29th March 2010 to 31st October 2010
£34.00 
