Isle of Skye #5: Old Man of Storr and Elgol

One of the must-do's on Isle of Skye is visiting the Old Man of Storr - not only visiting but climbing up the mountain! It's a rocky hill with an adventures path through a foresty area. I felt like a hobbit on an adventure climbing up there. It takes at least 40 minutes but you will not regret. The view is estonishing. Just take care while climbing up to the rocks. And take some sturdy shoes with you on the trip ;-)

                                     

Elgol is a village on the shores of a Loch in the middle of the highlands. Surprise, surprise: you have wonderful view from there!

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Isle of Skye #4: Trip Route

Here is the route that we took and we only had one full day on the Isle. But: we stoped at several spots, whenever we saw an amazing view (what was basically always). We also took some detours, not always intentionally but It was ok since we saw even more of the Isle ;-) So these are the main spots we stoped at:

Check out the last post 'Isle of Skye #2: Hostel' for more Information on the Hostel and the following posts for more information on the particular spots we stopped at. Some of them are Must-do's and others just can do's.
If you have more time to visit: You could try the Talisker Distillery, Dunvegan Castle and stop wherever you think it is worth it. Just try to enjoy the view and the nature. I can't stress this often enough: Skye is amazing! And I hope you are just as lucky as we were with the weather. #Aylin

Isle of Skye #2 - Hostel

We spent two nights in the backpackers hostel in broadford. The location is perfect to start your trip on  Skye from.
The cooperative is near to the hostel, which is nice to just get some food for the trip and to cook sth in the hostel. Basically it was the only supermarket we saw on the Island. I have seen a lot of hostels which were worse in terms of hygiene. So, it was pretty good.
There are some small pubs and restaurants in broadford but if you do the trip right you will be exhausted in the evening anyway and just fall in your bed.
If you are lucky with the wheather the runner of the hostel will organise a fire outisde. Unfortunately it was raining the night he planned to do that for us.
We paid 16 Pound per night on average. Which is standard I'd say.
So: absolutely recommendable, people there were funny and nice and the location is perfect. Thumps up!
#Aylin

lovely hostel cat Hamish

near to the bridge which leads to the Isle