Tour
Hidden Orkney - A seven hour inclusive tour that takes you away from the usual routes.
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. Please Note on Friday 15th May, Friday 5th June, Saturday 13th June, Sunday 2nd August, Sunday 16th August, Friday 11th September and Sunday 20th September we shall be visiting Kirbuster Farm Museum. The last un-restored example of a traditional 'firehoose' in Northen Europe. Wander through the Edwardian parlour and Victorian Gardens or spend your time browsing the farming memorabilla and enjoy a game of putting on the green,
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