About Argyll Walking Holidays
About Argyll offers guided and self-guided walking / hiking holidays in beautiful but undiscovered parts of the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland. We explore the hills, the lochs, boundless seascapes and islands. During the walks you can enjoy historical, natural or geological themes, the solitude of secret places and the pure pleasure of walking.
You will hike in small international groups (8 maximum) and our well-qualified, well-informed and enthusiastic guide will look after you. Accommodation is in comfortable B&B's or hotels.
All our holidays start and end in Glasgow.
We offer you:
Confidence that you are going the right way
Our well-qualified, well-informed and enthusiastic guides will look after you.
Small groups
Usually between 4 and 8.
Attractive, well-thought-out walking programme
We will do our best to make your holiday interesting and memorable.
Carefully selected accommodation
We book and arrange this for you, taking care to find a B&B, guest house or hotel that offer good food, comfort and friendly welcome.
Transport by minibus
Throughout your holiday as needed, including evenings, and from/to Glasgow / Glasgow International Airport at the beginning and end.
Transport by boats and ferries
As required.
Get-togethers in the evening
In a variety of carefully selected restaurants, hotels or pubs to set the scene for the next day's walking. We usually eat in a different place every day, so you will get a good taste of Scottish food.
Visits to museums and other places of interest - entrance fees are included where these are an integral part of your programme.
and most especially
personal care and attention in all that we do for you.
How hard will the walking be?
We offer two grades of holidays:
Walking tours:
A combination of walking, and visiting places of interest. Daily distances will never exceed 6 miles (10 km) plus varying amounts of ascent, and we don't expect to walk for longer than 4 hours on any day. Most of the walking will be on paths, tracks or quiet roads, but you will get a chance to experience walking off track. There will be some steep sections, but not hundreds of feet up.
Walking / Hiking holidays:
These are designed for people who are fit and used to walking for long periods. We will walk up to 11 miles (17 km) per day with on average 1000ft/300m ascent. On one day the ascent might be up to 3000ft/900m. There are 1 or 2 easier days. Our routes sometimes traverse pathless glens, climb mountains or thread remote passes. On most days as much of our time is spent off path as on it. Scotland can be very wild and tough going: 10 miles here is often much harder than 10 miles elsewhere. All that said, we don’t want to break any speed records, especially not when going uphill and you’ll have all the rewards of walking in one of the most beautiful and fascinating parts of the Highlands and Islands.
Who are we?
About Argyll walking holidays is run by Frieda Bos in cooperation with a team of well-qualified, well-informed and enthusiastic guides. Our aim is to run high-quality, small-scale, essentially personal hiking vacations. We view our clients as friends who are entitled to a professional service. We organise our walking holidays with freshness and enthusiasm so that you can get the most out of visiting this beautiful land.
About Argyll walking holidays started in 1995. Many of our clients have returned for a second, third or even fourth time.
Contact
About Argyll Walking Holidays
Letters Lodge South
Strathlachlan
Argyll
PA27 8BZ
Scotland
Tel: +44 (1369) 860272
Mobile +44 (7786) 391711
Fax: +44 (1389) 860272
E-Mail: info@aboutargyll.co.uk
WWW: http://www.aboutargyll.co.uk
Opening Hours
Scheduled guided walking/hiking holidays: May - September
Cowal Way self-guided walking holiday: April - October
Private guided itineraries: All year
