Off The Beaten Track - Hidden Orkney Tour - 7 Hour Tour

Off The Beaten Track - Hidden Orkney Tour - 7 Hour Tour

Hidden Orkney - A seven hour inclusive tour that takes you away from the usual routes. First we depart the Kirkwall Travel Centre for the Iron Age - Broch of Gurness this site shows occupation from around 500BCE to about 800 AD and encompasses Pictish, Iron Age and Viking elements. We head up the hill to wind turbines and an RSPB Bird Hide. If we are lucky we might find a red throated diver to view, or perhaps geese swooping between the wind turbines. Next we take a journey along the coast, and then over moorland to Corrigal Farm Museum. Orkney’s farming history is set out here housed in original stone buildings each with a story to tell. We head down the coastline to Orkney’s second town - Stromness. Leaving Stromness we head around Scapa Flow, pausing at Earls Bu in Orphir - it features in Orkney’s Viking Saga and has obvious, upstanding remains of the Round Kirk and the Norse drinking hall. Then, continuing along the north cost of Scapa Flow we return to Kirkwall.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Broch of Gurness, Evie Scotland

Guided Tour at Broch of Gurness

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Corrigall Farm Museum, Corrigall, Harray KW17 2JR Scotland

Guided Tour & Free time at Corrigall Farm Museum

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Stromness, Stromness, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland

Free time at Stromness to explore the pier side town.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Earl's Bu, Orphir KW17 2RD Scotland

Guided Tour at Earls Bu

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: RSPB Birsay Moors, Bogie House, Evie KW17 2PL Scotland

Free time to explore the Birsay Moors and Wind Turbines - Your guide will be on hand to tell you all about the birds you can see and Orkneys Renewable energy.

Duration: 20 minutes