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SHETLAND
ISLANDS
Lerwick

Stornoway Bird-watching (see p191) is in itself a reason
Helmsdale ORKNEY to visit Scotland. The best sanctu aries are in
ISLANDS
Kirkwall remote coastal areas where such delightful
species as puffins make their home on the
Ullapool sheer, wave­lashed cliffs.
Fraserburgh
Elgin
Inverness
Kyle of
Lochalsh
Aberdeen
Mallaig

Fort William Watersports (see p203) include canoeing, surfing,
windsurfing and diving. Visitors can book equip­
ment and courses through activities centres
Dundee scattered around the country.
Perth
Oban
Golf (see pp194–7)
attracts thousands
of visitors every year,
especially to the most
Stirling famous courses in
Central Scotland,
Dunbar such as St Andrews
Glasgow and Carnoustie.
Edinburgh
Motherwell
Ayr Galashiels
Walking (see pp198–9)
is tremendously
Campbeltown popular in Scotland,
and vast swathes of
the countryside are
open to the public.
Dumfries
Stranraer Pony-trekking oppor­
tunities (see p202) are
within easy reach of
Fishing (see p202) is the cities, in the gentle
well catered for on the countryside of Southern
River Tweed in Southern
Scotland, and on Loch and Central Scotland,
Ness in the Highlands. and in the great moor
and mountain wilder ness
of the Highlands.
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