The Rough Guide to the Scottish Highlands 3 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

• Paperback - 17 May, 2004 - Rough Guides
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• By: Rob Humphreys and Donald Reid
• ISBN: 1843532697

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Reviews by readers

A guide for the involved traveler

Most travel guides to Scotland include lots of photographs mixed with bumper sticker descriptions, limited amounts of travel hints, and listings for high-end accomodations. The Rough Guide to "Scottish Highlands & Islands" aims at a somewhat different audience, readers who have already decided to visit Scotland and want some honest and substantive travel narrative and practical details about more-affordable accomodation and travel.

This rough guide is dense with the kind of details one gets from the locals, and favors maps, graphics, and written description over photographs. The guide provides narrative oriented along the major travel routes with enough description to allow travelers to make their own choices about what might be worth visiting, and to avoid glitzy and typically overcrowded sites. A useful amount of historical detail is provided about a variety of points of interest without overwhelming or boring the reader. Information about hiking, biking, and other outdoor fun is enough to anticipate these activities while pointing the traveler to where to find additional information once on the ground in Scotland. Discussions about accomodation and food center on mid-range facilities and on inexpensive hostels and bunkhouses. The information about trains, planes, and automobiles should allow the traveler to figure out his or her own itinerary.

This book is highly recommend to travelors planning a vacation in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

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