Wild and beautiful Loch Fyne at Inveraray

Take a wee wander along the shore of Loch Fyne from Inveraray Hostel, as the tide creeps out. See the Oyster Catchers  and their well-camouflaged but rather exposed eggs.  Or listen to the baby blackbirds freshly hatched in a nest in the hostel garden.  Visit Crarae Garden to see stunning Magnolia, Rhododendron and Azalea. Or visit  Ardkinglas Woodland Garden home to Britain’s largest trees and smallest birds.

Inveraray Hostel has 10 rooms in total, 21 beds, maximum guest capacity 22.  There are dorm rooms of  3 – 4 beds (£19 per bed);  single private rooms (£25 per room), double private rooms,  2-bed bunkrooms and  3 beds rooms (bunk + single).

Something of the past often survives into the present, but rarely does this happen to an entire village…Auchindrain is a unique place!

Auchindrain was the last “township” in Scotland to be inhabited and worked, and it is the most complete and well-preserved example that you can visit today. In townships people lived and worked together in order to survive in the Highland landscape.  Auchindrain was established as a community before 1500. Its people began to leave in the 1890s but the buildings remained and became cowsheds, stables and potato stores. The last family moved away in 1967. In Auchindrain you have a chance to explore how ordinary people lived all those years ago. A visit will take you back to a vanished way of life. Auchindrain is on the A83, six miles south of Inveraray. It is set in a beautiful and dramatic landscape with excellent walks nearby.