Edinburgh, Scotland combines history, beauty and fun. In Edinburgh one can learn how the Royals live, what plants are popular in China along with the exact location of the Loch Ness monster. You can walk the Royal Mile from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Abbey and discover Old Town Edinburgh featuring its markets and Tron Kirk, St. Giles Cathedral as well as the supreme courts.

Any tour of Edinburgh must begin at historic Edinburgh Castle. Built atop volcanic Castle Rock the castle has held royalty ever since the 12th century. It is the beginning of the Royal Mile. Many people affiliate Scotland with Scotch Whiskey and the Scotch Whiskey Experience tour through a replica distillery on the royal mile tells the entire story and lets site visitors taste their way through Scotch whisky history. Below the Royal Mile is The Real May King’s Close, an underground street where regular people lived, worked and died. Just like the macabre? Visit Edinburgh Dungeon where murderers, thieves, cannibals, executioners, grave robbers and witch hunters all died.

Stop by at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, among one of the world’s finest botanical gardens. Set on 70 acres it features ten different climatic zones within the Windows on the World glasshouse, has the world’s largest variety of tender vireya rhododendron, the Queen mother memorial garden, the world famous Rock Garden and the largest variety of Chinese wild-origin plants outside of China.

In the event you favor manmade beauty check out the Royal Yacht Britannia, home of the Queen and the royal family. The yacht has hosted events for many world’s most powerful people. Everybody else celebrates during the Edinburgh International Festival in August. Since 1947 its offered fun, entertainment, culture and also the arts. Its renowned as the world’s largest festival. Want to see the Loch Ness monster? Check out the Loch Ness Center & Exhibition Experience and go on a boat ride on the research vessel ‘Deepscan’. Everything else you do you must take time to see the great mountain vistas of Glencoe.

Scotland offers great options for lodgings. One can possibly stop at guest houses, B&B’s, Edinburgh Serviced Apartments, boutique hotels, five-star hotels, a country house hotel with gardens or even a restaurant with rooms all inside the Scottish mile of the pubs and party spots. Edinburgh is excellent.

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