About Argyll Walking Holidays offers walking holidays and hiking tours in beautiful but undiscovered parts of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. We will take you to quiet, remote corners that can only be reached on foot, enabling you to enjoy the solitude of Scotland's secret places. With About Argyll you can discover more about the history and culture, nature and landscape of what is one of the world's most excitingly varied small countries.

About Argyll Walking Holidays, as the name suggests, started in Argyll in Scotland. Since 1995 we have run high-quality, essentially personal walking tours and hiking vacations, building up a reputation for care and quality. Deliberately small-scale, we have created a community of our client group, many of whom quickly become friends.

Activities offered

Walking tours
Our (luxury) walking / hiking tours are a good introduction to hiking in Scotland for people with basic fitness. The holiday combines hiking with visits to places of interest. Daily distances won’t exceed 6 miles (10 km) plus varying amounts of ascent, and we don’t expect to hike for longer than 4 hours.

Walking holidays
Our walking holidays and hiking vacations are designed for people who are fit and used to walking all day. We will walk up to 11 miles (17 km) per day with an average 1000ft/300m of ascent. Our routes sometimes traverse pathless glens, climb mountains or thread remote passes and there may be some scrambling. On most days as much of our time is spent off path as on it.

Private guided itineraries
We operate tailor-made hiking tours for up to 16 people, customised to your requirements. Tours may be for a weekend or for any longer period of up to two weeks, and can be drawn up for anywhere in Scotland. We provide a complete package: guiding, transport, accommodation, meals, special visits and ferries/taxi-boats as required.

Self-guided walking holidays in Cowal, south-west Highlands
These hiking holidays are for walkers who like to walk independently. We arrange accommodation, (luggage) transport and give you route maps and a detailed description of the route.

We run activities for

Adults: individuals and groups
During our scheduled holidays you will hike in a small international group (8 maximum) and our well-qualified, well-informed and enthusiastic guide will look after you.

We take private groups of up to 16 people.

Location

Our scheduled holidays are throughout Argyll in the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland and over the years, in exploratory spirit, we have added ventures further afield: Galloway, Highland Perthshire, Arran, the Small Isles and all the way north to the magnificent otherness of Norse/Scots Shetland Islands.

All our holidays start and end in Glasgow.

Accommodation

Carefully selected comfortable accommodation - we book and arrange this for you, taking care to find a B&B, guest house or hotel that is individual in character and offers good food, comfort and a friendly welcome.