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Susan, our guide from Foten Taxi Tours first took us to Clava Cairns, a 4,000-year-old cemetery. These burial monuments combines ring cairns, passage graves and stone circles. |
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Before we could enter this cairn, we had to wait because it was occupied... |
| ...by a woman drumming rhymically. A Druid? | ||
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| A denizen of the Culloden Battlefield tourist center! The battle was a slaughterhouse for the Jacobites, supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie who tried to restore his father to the Britsh throne. | The Culloden Viaduct was built in 1889 and is still in use today. It's the longest masonry railway viaduct in Scotland. | |
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| The adorable Highland coo is a hardy breed described as almost as cold-tolerant as the arctic-dwelling caribou and reindeer. | Loch Ness is a beautiful lake. | |
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| It is the UK's largest loch (lake), holding more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. It's over 750 feet deep. | Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is a mythical creature. She was brought to worldwide attention in 1933. | |
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