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A very pleasant, relaxing tour

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Viator review: Cawdor Castle, Inverness, Culloden Battlefield and Loch Ness Tour Our tour guide, Emma, and our driver, Steve, we're superb. Emma is a font of knowledge for the countryside and i...
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Great Highlands Tour with Thistle Tours.

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ripadvisor review: Urquhart Castle, Culloden, Loch Ness, Inverness & Outlander sites. We really lucked out by choosing Thistle Tours to see the Highlands. Our tour included the Clava Cairns, th...
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Fun-filled Inverness tour

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Tripadvisor review: Cawdor Castle, Inverness, Culloden Battlefield and Loch Ness Tour Emma and Scott did a great job and they were working hard with our cruise schedule. I wish I had more time but ...
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Thistle Excursions are a bus tour operator which departs from Invergordon. This is the perfect location for visitors on touring cruise ships stopping in the Cromarty Firth at the port of Invergordon. Our Invergordon bus tours are the prefect way for tourists and sightseeers to get a true taste of the Highlands of Scotland. Our bus tours which leave from Invergordon feature some of the best Highland locations; Loch Ness, Culloden Battlefield, Inverness, Beauly Priory, Black Rock Gorge, Clava Cairns, Cawdor Castle, Urqhuart Castle, Carnegie Whisky Cellar and Balblair Distillery. Check out our Highland bus tour destinations page to choose which sights you want to see. Our bus tours have been chosen to allow you to see the most iconic destinations featured in numerous films, TV shows and rich Scottish History. So if you are looking for the perfect sightseeing tour of the Highlands, Thistle Excursions is your tour operator.

We also offer tailormade bus tours of the Highlands from Invergordon and Inverness.

When booking your tour please choose carefully which castle you wish to visit. Either Cawdor, Urquhart or Dunrobin. You can visit one on your tour but when doing the Cawdor visit you will see Urquhart beside Loch Ness in the background, but you do not visit both.  Time does not allow.