Road Trip Around Scotland Part 2 (Fort William)

From Glasgow we continued our journey to Fort William, another 100 miles towards Northern part of Scotland.

Our next stop was Steall Waterfall near Fort William, second highest waterfall in UK. As you can see from the photos, the roads and surrounding leading to the waterfall was mostly covered with rugged mountains. And to go near to the waterfall you have to go on foot, parking the vehicle bit further. So that what we did.

After spending around 2 hours near the Steall Waterfall and finishing our lunch, it was time to go to our final destination on the first day and our lodging place "Flora Macdonald Hostel" in Isle of Skye.

On the way to the Flora Macdonald Hostel we stopped at a super market to buy cooking stuffs for our dinner and next day breakfast.

It was nearly around 7pm when we came near to the Skye Bridge that links the mainland and Isle of Skye. From there it was another 30 minutes journey to our over night stay. 

Owner of the hostel came to greet us, show us the rooms where we are staying. The hostel had a Wood Burning Stove which was nice addition, it was getting bit cold so we had our dinner sitting around the wood burner and enjoy with singing some songs. We went to our beds around 11pm thinking of the next days adventures in Isle of Skye.

To be continued...

    

Road Trip Around Scotland Part 1 (Glasgow)

It was the spring of year 2014, me and few of my friends wanted to travel around Scotland. Although we have been in uk for few years, we have not ventured to the Northern part of UK.

We planned to go on the trip in Easter holiday, when there is a 4 days of holiday.
There were 6 of us going on the road trip, so we hire a 7 seater van from Afford Rent A Car company (http://www.affordrentacar.co.uk/) which had the best deals in Stoke On Trent.

On the Friday of 18th April 2014, we started our journey from Stoke On Trent around 5 am to avoid the easter holiday traffic. Our first destination was to visit a Buddhist temple in Glasgow to donate alms to the monks and getting blessing for our journey.

Below are some of snaps I taken while on road.

We had some breakfast from a motorway service area, and was eager to visit our first destination. After 250 miles journey, spending nearly 4 hours on the road we arrived at Scotland’s Buddhist Vihara in Glasgow (http://tsbv.org.uk/).

 After alms giving and pirith chanting & sermon from the Buddhist monks we were on our way towards out next destination, Fort William in Western Scottish Highlands.

To be continued....