Highland is a council in the far North of Scotland with an area of over 11,837 sq miles making it the largest in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK as a whole. The population of 212,000 mostly spread throughout small towns and villages but the major centres include Inverness, Ullapool, Fort William and Dingwall.

The Highland region includes John O’Groats the UK’s most Northerly town, Tunnet Point is the most Northern point in the UK.

An ever popular tourist destination all year round is Aviemore, which is located near the Cairngorm Mountain range and provide easy access during the skiing season and during the summer months for climbers and trekkers. The Highland region also contains the Glencoe, a mountain range which has skiing faculties during the right weather conditions.

Star of film and legend, Loch Ness, will always be associated with a romantic and sometimes false Scottish myth of glens and fabulous monsters. While little of this is true, Loch Ness remains a must-see destination for tourists. The Loch Ness monster is thought to have been an elephant from a passing circus, a bird or even a seal rather than a dinosaur type beast.

Culloden is the most celebrated site in all Scottish history and is visited by thousands of tourists as the place where Bonnie Prince Charlie backed by the Catholic French were finally beaten by the English and Loyalist Scots in 1746. This defeat crushed Scottish resistance to English rule and the Jacobite rebellion was finally over after venturing south to Derby.

Other tourist attractions include: Skibo castle, Cawdor Castle and the West Highland Way