Practical Information

Camping in Scotland

Scotland is famous for its fantastic landscape - large forests, green hills and a lot of misterious lakes (the most popular one is Loch Ness) - and isn't very densly populated, so many people go there for wandering and camping.
Being one of them you should pay attention on these facts:
- the best time to to travel there is may, because weather is quite good and normally there are no flies
- a huge problem for campers are very small but annoying flies; a good tent, anti-fly products and fire could help you
- as long as you don't leave your rubbish behind, wild camping shouldn't be a problem; you don't have to stay on camping sites
- if you plan larger tours, you don't have to care about taking water with you. Scotland is rich of greater and smaller rivers whose water you can drink without any problem. If you're not sure, there exist special pills to descontaminate the water; you can buy them in any outdoor shop
- a good starting point for a lot of tours is Fort William (calling itself "the outdoor capital of the UK"), you can get there by train or bus from any bigger city
- there's a series of really great maps called "OS Landranger maps" which are very detailled; you also can buy them in any outdoor shop
Scotland offer tremedous activities and if you enjoy shopping then head for the City of Glasgow where the shopping experience is only bettered by London, visit the Buchanan Galleries Shopping Mall, St Enoch Centre Mall or the many international shops such as Gucci, JPG, Versace, etc..  and experience not to miss.