South of the Great Glen are the highest plateaus in the U.K. with a long history of habitation especially on the coast and river valleys.

The ancient Kingdom of Fife between the Tay and the Forth estuaries houses the ancient home of the Scottish Kingsat Falkland Palace, but before that was the centre of the Pictish culture of which many traces are to be found.

In the west the land fragments into Islands such as Jura, Islay, Arran and many others culminating in the Mull of Kintyre only a few miles from the Irish coast.

The Moray Firth flanked by the Black Isle and the ancient lands of Moray is Macbeth country with its concentration of whiskey distilleries and its great salmon rivers. Castles such as Duffus, Urquhart and Cawdor and religious houses such as Elgin indicate a once dense habitation.

Scotland / South of Loch Ness