Conrad Stein Verlag Scotland North Coast 500 OutdoorHandbook Volume 462

Summary
Interesting facts about Scotland's north (nature and landscape, culture and history), travel info from A to Z, detailed route description.

about the author
The biologist Hartmut Engel has been a travel book author for many years. He has written numerous travel and non-fiction books for Conrad Stein Verlag, including several about Scotland, which is one of his favorite travel destinations. Since his youth, he has spent time and again in the north of the British Isles, exploring the country on foot, by bicycle and by motor home.

Short description
The North Coast 500, or NC 500 for short, is considered one of the most beautiful coastal roads in the world. The route through the north of Scotland was only signposted a few years ago, but in a very short time it developed into one of the country's most popular tourist routes. The 516-mile (approx. 830 km) long, spectacular circular route begins in Inverness. From there, it runs through an enchanting landscape to the west coast and onward, always close to the Atlantic Ocean, to the far north of Scotland. Along the north coast the NC 500 leads to John o'Groats in the northeast and finally along the east coast back to Inverness.

In addition to wonderful sandy beaches and jagged rocky coasts, the route offers seemingly endless, lonely heath and moor landscapes with idyllic lakes and rushing waterfalls, high mountains and breathtaking mountain passes. Also worth seeing are the many small and larger towns as well as Inverness, the largest city in the northern Highlands.

The guidebook describes in detail the routing with special attention to motorhome drivers. The author names places to stay, fuel and supply facilities and other things important for the journey, goes into interesting details of nature and landscape as well as culture and history and also gives tips on places of interest that are somewhat off the official route.

Details

• Hartmut Engel
• 1. Edition 2023
• OutdoorHandbook Volume 462
• approx. 50 colored illustrations
• approx. 20 colored map sketches
• overview map in the cover flap
• Format 16,5 x 11,5 cm
• ISBN 978-3-86686-651-5