Travel Talks: Inverness & the Scottish Highlands

In this travel talk, Rick Steves' Europe travel expert Julia Reams-Giersch visits Inverness — the unofficial capital of the Scottish Highlands. From there, Julia offers tips for exploring Cairngorms National Park, catching a trained sheepdog show or a Highland Games (with burly "feats of strength" and delicate dancing), visiting the prehistoric Clava Cairns that inspired the Outlander books and TV series, touring the historic Culloden Battlefield (where the Jacobite rising and the Highland way of life met a bloody end), looking for sea monsters and ruined castles at Loch Ness, and hiking the "Weeping Glen" of Glencoe. 

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