Explore Scotland’s Orkney Islands on a week of coastal walks and heritage discoveries based in Kirkwall, with ferries to outlying isles and a start and finish in Inverness.
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Sail the Viking Swan’s Path ferry from Kirkwall to Westray.
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Witness vast seabird colonies at Noup Head on Westray.
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Explore the Brough of Deerness Viking settlement atop a sea stack.
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Peer into the Gloup collapsed sea cave on the Deerness Peninsula.
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Visit the Italian Chapel, Churchill Barriers, and wartime Scapa Flow.
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Walk clifftops to the sea stacks of Yesnaby and North Gaulton.
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Discover Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar, and Stones of Stenness.
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Explore Rousay’s Midhowe chambered cairn and Iron Age Broch Tower.
Stay at The Orkney Hotel in the historic town of Kirkwall, our base for the week. We arrive on Day 1 and spend each night here between daily excursions across Mainland, Westray and Rousay, then check out on Day 7 before returning to Inverness.