To the tomb!

[MilanBohac]

Hello,
I decided to write my first ever report here, so please be nice to me if I'll do something wrong First, please excuse my spelling mistakes, english is not my first language, but I will try my best. For the report I chose the trip to the old tomb near the small loch of Loch na h-Airde. We did the trip in May of 2014. I took my friend Lukas with me. We stayed in Glen Brittle campsite (one of the most scenic campsites I have been to, by the way) and met there David, very wise man, who told us about the tomb near the loch on the edge of the peninsula. David also told us, that this is the tomb built by Vikings, who also built a ship canal from the loch to the sea. Later I read about the tomb and it was built probably 2nd or 3rd millennium BC.
Anyway, we started our trip from the campsite, weather was good, but clouds were low. We followed the road along the coast. The road is really easy to walk, no difficulties. There is only one place, where you must carefully cross the stream (it depends on how much it rained). If it is impossible to cross, there is an iron bridge couple of meters down the stream, but requires to go through some boggy ground.

On the way toRubh an Duain

We followed the road and then took the path leading to a small hill beside the road. Although it is not very high, the views of the bay are really nice.

Me on the hill:)

Then, we walked down to a place where the road goes left (couple of meters to the left are ruins of old dwellings). We left the road and went along the coast. There are some nice cliffs along the way.

Cliffs

We had a problem to find the tomb since there is no path to the loch, it is well hidden. After a while we finally saw our goal. The tomb is well preserved (I guess because of its remote location). The canal is also easy to spot as well as the ruins of a Dun on the other side of the loch.

The view of the loch

The Tomb

Isle of Rum in the distance (and in the clouds:)

There were sheep all around so we had company.

Sheep

On the way back we went along the strange rocky formations, which (as I have later found out) were created in a volcanic activity. The ground above the formations is little bit boggy.

Volcanic formations

Volcanic formations 2

We took the same way back to the campsite (the only difference was, we didn't walk over the hill I have mentioned before). It was really interesting trip. It is not difficult to get there, but definetely worth the time. If you will stay in Glen Brittle campsite and want to see a bit of history, try Rubh an Duain .

Thank you for reading this, if you have any questions, just ask me.
Milan

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[Petr Dakota]

Hi Milan,
well done ! Keep doing and share your trips here. Scotland is really beautiful !!!
I wish you well...
Petr

[onsen]

Interesting walk....