Scotland Travel & Tourism

If you love sipping Scotch whisky, then a visit to Scotland on a vacation will be nothing less than a spiritual pilgrimage. Any person who has tasted scotch will tell you that it has one of the most unique tastes in the world.

It is considered as the ultimate form of good whisky. Scotland has a rich history of brewing fantastic quality whiskey and is rather proud of its history. That is the reason why there are towns that are marketed specially for the presence of distilleries.

You can visit Scotland to check out its whisky capital- Speyside’s Dufftown. This town happens to be the home of many famous distilleries in Scotland. The products of these distilleries are exported to all over the world. Of course, you can always buy good quality scotch at affordable prices and carrying it back home. Doing this can be a lot of fun too. You can make your friends jealous by getting great whisky at low prices. You can gloat over the fantastic deals you got after visiting the home of Scotch whisky until they become green with envy.

Of course, there is no point in traveling thousands of miles only to visit one place. You can check out various other parts of Scotland and enjoy the beauty to your heart’s content. Vacationing in Scotland offers many options. You have the option of opting for luxury hotels and enjoying life in the lap of luxury.

Or, you can rough it out by visiting the highlands and enjoying the meadows and the rustic life. Of course, you can strike the balance and travel to the highlands by car or train and return back to urban centers for the stay. Scotland is small enough to be enjoyed in a span of 10 to 15 days but is big enough to keep you occupied and leave you with a satisfied experience.

“A fine malt”. One can almost hear the cry resonating throughout not just the Scottish Highlands, but in virtually every part of the globe where the superiority of malt whisky is appreciated, nay venerated. Travel to Scotland can mean for some just that one thing: a pilgrimage in homage to the hallowed production methods used to produce those great malts. And while castles, rounds of golf, days spent salmon fishing and nights spent in haunted inns might divert, for some the purpose of Mission Scotland is pure whisky worship. It is for that reason that whisky trails were invented. Naturally, the whisky trail par excellence is a malt whisky trail.
Not a tongue-twister, but rather the sequence of principal stages in the production of that treasured caskful : milling, mashing, fermenting and distilling  this litany soon trips off the tongue during the first distillery tours, soon becoming a considerable feat, should one visit one too many in a given day.
Distilleries producing the most revered of all whiskies, the single malt, are almost household names: Glenlivet, Glenmorangie and Dallas Dhu among them. Benromach is the smallest of the mainland distilleries, and on that ground alone worth a visit. Here less is definitely more, the distillery being particular proud of relying on a double act  just two dedicated distillers. Benromach is easy to find; head for Forres, itself at the heart of one of Scotland’s popular tourism destinations, Speyside, the land of The Bonny Earl of Moray, as the song says. An archetypical Scottish settlement, Forres is no sleepy backwater, but an unrivalled center from which to take in all things Highland.
Purists will tell you to head for the islands, as that’s where, it’s claimed, the top-notch members of the single malt clan are distilled. If time permits, theTalisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye rewards a visit, to be topped only by a trip further afield to Islay, the home of, among others, Ardbeg Whisky.