Wilderness Scotland Traveller Reviews

Guided walking (and driving) adventure in Skye and Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

They provided as complete experience of the Outer Hebrides you can do in a week. Wilderness Scotland provided a guide. Gill, who made the trip! Her excitement and her knowledge of Scotland's history, flora and fauna, and geography, is amazing. She was the perfect host and guide. Driving through Scotland she talked about where we were, what we were seeing and what it meant to Scottish history. And on the trails hiking, she described what we were encountering from the geological formations to the tiniest flowers, she talked about the birds flying by while helping us to navigate through the rocks on the trail and the bogs. Gill was consistently positive, energized and communicated the love of being a guide in everything she did. Our group had writer, musician, and poet in the group and she brought her own creativity to us as well. She shared stories, poems, and love of Scotland. She provided the experience of Scotland in both head and heart. Thank you Gill!

Hiking trip to Argyll and the Isles. Trip included visits to Kerrera, Gigha, Kilmartin Glen, Jura and Islay

Wilderness Scotland is an excellent operator. It's clear that they have been doing this for a long time. The accomodations and food were excellent

Trekking for 7 days

Wilderness Scotland tailored a holiday for 14 keen walkers. Provided excellent guides with good knowledge and commitment to our safety and enjoyment. Food and accommodation excellent.

One week hiking on the Knoydart peninsula and the surrounding islands

Simply booking procedures and knowledgeable and friendly staff

This was the best walking holiday I ever had and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. The Wilderness Lodge at Knoydart is an uncommonly wonderful place and it felt like a real privilege to spend time there. There was a very special joy in beginning the day by watching wild red deer grazing at the window in the half-light. All of the team at the lodge were delightful - relaxed, friendly and keen to help us enjoy ourselves in every way possible. Liz is an exceptionally creative chef and truthfully, we were often as excited to learn what would be on the menu when returning from our walks in the evening as we were to embark on them in the morning! I got the impression that she is constantly innovating and experimenting with fresh homegrown and local produce. At every meal, we had new and delectable taste experiences from what one of our group called the "amazingly hot jams" at breakfast to the warm root vegetable dishes, succulent roasts, colorful, supremely fresh seafood, delicately-accented salads and fabulous, even baroque, deserts which were especially good after an energetic day. I need a gluten-free diet and have never been so well fed on holidays or enjoyed my food so much. For example, in addition to the wonderful roast meat and homemade artisan cheese sandwich fillings (among others), I had twelve different kinds of nutritious and delicious, healthy treats cooked from scratch in my lunch in just six days! Thanks, Liz and team 😊 As for our guide, I have done a number of walking holidays in Scotland and Ireland now with various different companies and enjoyed them all immensely but Al was easily the best guide I ever walked with. He has a lovely gentle manner and was attentive to every individual in our group, often anticipating our concerns or questions before we actually brought them to him. He is highly knowledgeable about the Knoydart region, never sentimental but clearly passionate and a real pleasure to listen to. As a teacher, I very much appreciated his informed and accessible introductions to the animals, land and history we encountered as well as the various management and conservation practices in this relatively unspoiled and precious part of the world. I found it especially enjoyable to have a guide who had not just learned off a few facts but was willing to answer my questions and happy and interested to engage in detailed conversations about what we saw. His account of the volcanos and different geological processes that led to the diverse rock formations and geology of the mountains made our modest climbs and the views underfoot all the more meaningful and exciting. He has a great sense of humour too and we had brilliant fun sharing our various travel and adventure stories. I was massively impressed by his and Andy's negotiation of the weather to ensure we had so many pleasant boat trips and clear views in the Sound of Sleat. Being on open ground or sea is always good for the soul but there was no masochism on this trip (!) - these two seemed to work wonders with the rain clouds and drive them away from our island destinations! Then there was the young minke whale and the basking shark who appeared within minutes of each other on the warmest evening...what can I say? So many things to be grateful for but not enough time to ennumerate them all so I will just need to end by sending deep appreciation and enthusiastic thanks to everyone on the Wilderness Scotland team for such an enjoyable vacation. I have lots of beautiful photographs and memories to share with family and friends and will most certainly vacation with you again.

Best holiday ever!

Hiked the Knoydart peninsula of the Scottish Highlands as well as hiked the Cullen area of Skye, and islands of Rum and Eigg.

Wilderness Scotland has a great variety of trips, at different difficulties and dates. Very knowledgeable, helpful and safety conscious guided!

I am a 75 year old Grandmother who traveled with my daughter on this small group hiking tour of Isle of Skye. We met and thorough enjoyed 5 other wonderful friendly fun loving people and our amazing guide Gordon Anderson. Each day gave us new insights and beauty and adventure that were beyond our expectations and our Hotel stays and Restaurant meals were all high quality. I have dietary Gluten Free needs that were catered to and I felt strong and healthy all week long for which I am most grateful.

Gordon is a very fine, friendly, well educated and informative young man who has a fine Scottish sense of humour and pride of his heritage. He communicated well with us all and we all felt safe and cared for by him. Wilderness Scotland are excellent as organizers and dedicated to providing excellent service and making sure all clients are suitably prepared and ready to go hiking in beautiful places. I am most grateful.

This experience had fabulous combination of challenging hiking in beautiful country with the comfort of a luxurious lodge, fabulous food and generous staff.

Really helpful and accomodating at every step pf the way, from initial conversation, to booking and then engaging . Highly recommended.

I took a five-night sea kayak trip with Wilderness Scotland along the western Gaelic coast of Scotland in August of 2019. This was a well-planned and beautifully executed trip where we went to places we could never have seen by car or foot and encountered seals, sea otters, and a pair of sea eagles in the wild. The equipment was excellent and the trip was very good value for the money.

Excellent guide and customer service, from start to finish.

Breath-taking vistas of a beautiful island, excellent accommodation and company.

Extremely well organized and responsive to the needs of the traveler.