Description

Designed to provide you with a taste of dramatic Orkney this FOUR hour tour is intended to make the most of a short stay into Orkney leaving you with some excellent memories and some wonderful photographs. This tour has been designed for the nature wanderer, the keen photographer or someone who wants to experience all Orkneys heritage has to offer. 

  • Beautiful Coastlines - Throughout our journey we will have panoramic undisturbed views over the west coastline of Orkney. Here we can see the tidal strength Orkney has to offer, the beautiful wildlife that Orkney is home to and incredible views. 

  • Dramatic Cliffs - Visit Yesnaby, Where we can see towering cliffs, a stunning sea stack, beautiful coastal scenery and wildlife.

  • Viking History at Birsay, the original Norse Capital 

  • RSPB Nature Reserve - The Loons Hide & Listening Wall -  Discover a wonderful landscape where the sounds of breeding birds fill the air. The Loons and Loch of Banks reserve is the perfect place to see wildlife up close, including wigeons, pintails, white-fronted geese and perhaps even a rare great yellow bumblebee. 

  • Stone Circles - Heart of Neolithic Orkney UNESCO World Heritage Site - Spend time at two spectacular stone circles. The Stones of Stenness are fewer in number but thin in profile and tower over us, the Ring of Brodgar, on the other hand are larger in number, bulkier but shorter and positioned dramatically in the landscape surrounded by the distant hills under an open sky.

  • Scapa Flow - Orkney’s exceptional, huge, natural harbour, a home to Viking Fleets, Oil Tankers and (most famously) to the Royal Navy in both World Wars

  • Concludes in time to allow 1 hour of ‘free time’ in the capital Kirkwall after the tour 

  • Easy start and finish in the Orkney capital of Kirkwall

 


 

 

Venue Details
Kirkwall Travel Centre Stand 8/9
Kirkwall Travel Centre, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1GU, United Kingdom
All tours are provided by Orkney Island Tours Limited. Incorporated in Scotland SC625271. Registered Office: Innovation Centre - F14, Hatston Pier Road, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1ZL. Online payments are processed securely by Square via an interface with simpletix.com