Cairngorm Mountain Railway

The Cairngorm mountain range, situated in the Cairngorm National Park is the highest, coldest, snowiest mountain plateau in the British Isles and is home to five of the six highest mountains in Scotland. This is Britain's last great wilderness and its alpine semi-tundra landscape is home to some rare and spectacular wildlife. The mountains can be dangerous, changeable, and forbidding; many people have lost their lives walking and climbing here over the years. Fortunately, there's an easy, safe way to experience this unique landscape; the Cairngorm Funicular Railway. The railway runs from the base station at 2000ft and climbs steeply to ...  Read the complete review

Even although I live in Scotland, I love it and really can't get enough of visiting it's spectacular, breathtaking scenery. It's hard to explain the feeling I get when travelling through the mountains in particular, the eerie stillness is so haunting and peaceful, you really feel content with yourself when travelling through this beautiful remote wilderness. One of my favourite mountain ranges in Scotland is the Cairngorm Mountain Range and the best way to visit this mountain range is on the Cairngorm Mountain Railway. This railway is a funicular system, there are two carriages which are connected by a cable and therefore pull each other up and down the ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ A visit to the Highlands of Scotland wouldn’t be considered complete unless you had ventured at least once out into the natural environment; the rugged and spectacular mountains. It’s the mountains and surrounding scenery that attract countless thousands of visitors to the Cairngorm area of the Scottish Highlands every year, both as tourists in the Summer, and in the winter season, to ski on the mountain’s snow covered slopes. ~ ~ I have to admit to a certain stirring of my Scottish blood when I visit the Highlands, as images are conjured up in my head of the “Heilanders” of old, and how the clans used to gather here in the ...  Read the complete review