25 Places In Scotland That Are Straight Out Of A Fantasy Novel

Buzzfeed.com ^ | 5th May 2015 | Hilary Wardle

[the scotsman]

'Who needs Westeros? We’ve got Wester Ross.'

[Conservative4Ever]

Breathtakingly beautiful. My ancestors lame from a beautiful country.

[caww]

This is one of a series of several 'Fairy Pools' and waterfalls coming down from from the mountains.

[caww]

I’m Scotish/Irish so it’s great fun posting a few images of Scotland!

[KarlInOhio]

Why in the world did my family leave such a beautiful country?

Just imagine all of those beautiful scenes with a hundred bagpipers wailing away. You'd jump on a ship so you can listen to New York City jackhammers too. :-)

(Just joking with all the bagpipers. You don't need to come to my house to blow into the wrong end of a cat to show me what sounds come out.)

[caww]

Highlands of Scotland

[caww]

Highlands of Scotland

[BykrBayb]

Pretty home you have there.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s stunning. But, nothing more than moss and grass growing, very rocky. Poor soil no doubt. Hardscrabble life, trying to eke enough food out of that to support a family.

[Conservative4Ever]

Kathy, heathcliff.

[Conservative4Ever]

Lame=came. Dang auto correct

[Conservative4Ever]

Agh bagpipes...makes you either want to weep or go to war.

[Conservative4Ever]

Good call.

[caww]

Yep!...lolol

[caww]

Yep!...lolol

[Hot Tabasco]

I watched that video and it was quite awesome. Had to watch the credits at the end to find out it wasn’t a helicopter doing the aerial camera work but a drone........cool!

[driftless2]

How does that cyclist Mccaskil keep his tires from getting cut to shreds on that incredible ride he took? And what skill and guts!

[TexasFreeper2009]

best go now before the whole place is overrun with Islamic savages like the rest of Europe.

[Peter Libra]

The words of "The Road to the Isles" started up in my mind as I viewed the great picture studies. One, of Rannock Moor brought me back to 1954. I was a youth hosteller up from London Town. I was told at Kinloch Rannoch station, no train for four hours to Fort William.

I asked the station master if the path starting at the moor would take me to Glencoe. It was about twelve miles. I started walking and he said "I hope ye know what ye are doing". After ten miles with absolutely no dwellings, but the streams and the croaking of frogs, I lost it. Became disoriented.

Not the website to go on the subject, but the memory still vivid. I later learned that in 1907, four Irish lads working on a great hydro project, had walked the same route. There was no tavern at Kinloch Rannock and with their pay went to Glencoe to drink. At the area where I almost lost it, on their return, a storm blew up. They died.

This was on the eastern side of Rannoch, not where the Glencoe massacre took place. I finally saw a lodge and a path to the highway.

[mcshot]

Indeed. My ancestors were in part Campbell and McDonald (McDonnell). I have been told when I return to go as a McDonald. It is on our bucket list although the wifee doesn’t think she can do another plane ride.

[yarddog]

The two prettiest girls in my class were named MacDonald and Campbell. They were best friends which I always thought ironic.

They were both absolute babes.