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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.

We offer both scheduled walking holidays and bespoke private guided hiking trips.
The scheduled holidays start and end in Glasgow. They vary in destination, level of walking and type of accommodation, from 3- and 4-star bed & breakfast accommodation to luxury country house hotels. You will hike in a small international group (8 maximum) and our well-qualified, well-informed and enthusiastic guide will look after you.

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.

About Argyll Walking Holidays, as the name suggests, started in Argyll in Scotland. Since 1995 we have run high-quality, essentially personal walking holidays and hiking tours, 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.

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Prominent affiliations & awards

• Adventure Travel Trade Association
• Fit For Trips Member
• Adventure Travel Trade Association
• Fit For Trips Member

Our commitment to sustainable travel

We are dedicated to preserving and promoting the value of Scotland's wild areas by doing our best to reduce the environmental impact of our walking holidays and ensuring the long-term sustainability of tourism in the area. The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are one of Britain and Europe's last wildernesses, and we feel a responsibility to protect and conserve these fragile ecosystems. We want you and future generations to enjoy this unique natural environment and biodiversity. Therefore, our walking groups are small. This reduces the impact on the environment and increases the chances of seeing wildlife. Our guides will inform you about how to minimize your impact on this precious environment.

Our small-scale business provides local benefit, environmentally, culturally and economically to the places we visit. We work with many small, rural businesses. You will stay in locally-owned accommodation, eat in local restaurants which use fresh, local produce. All of this contributes to the local economy.

Our sustainable business practice extends to the running of our office by reducing the use of energy, water and other resources, reducing and recycling our waste, doing most of the correspondence by email or on recycled paper.

We also try to reduce the impact of the carbon emissions of our minibuses by supporting Trees for Life, which use our donation to plant trees in order to restore the Caledonian forest in the Scottish Highlands.

We are committed to improve the sustainability, increase the social and local benefits and reduce the environmental impact of our holidays and our office even further. Some of the actions we are taking are:

• Monitoring the use of energy and other resources we use and trying to reduce it even further.
• Encouraging the B&Bs and hotels we are using, to use green and sustainable practices, using locally sourced or fair trade food for the breakfasts and picnic lunches.
• Taking you to places to eat in the evening that use locally sourced food.
• Informing you about walking without leaving a trace.
• Encouraging you to use public transport for your journey to and in Scotland.
• Having a wildlife garden around our office with a pond, wildflower meadow and native trees.
• Liaising with the local community and support them as we can.

To underline our commitment and policies, we are a member of the Green Tourism Business Scheme, which has recognised our efforts with a Gold Award, the highest award possible.

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Exploring Mull	Exploring Mull Glasgow Airport, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom for 6 Days • from £785* per person Provider: About Argyll Walking Holidays in Scotland Mull is one of the largest of the Hebridean islands but it is bitten into by so many sea lochs that the sight and sound of salt water is never far away. This makes for a long coastline. With high cliffs, sandy or rocky bays, caves and arches there is always something to draw you on around the next corner.The island is divided into north and south by a narrow waist of land at Salen. The southern half has a… more	Offered May Exertion level: 3 Comfort accommodations Max group size: 12 people Must form your own group? No
Across Cowal In Scotland	Across Cowal In Scotland Airport near Toward, United Kingdom for 6 Days • from £420* per person Provider: About Argyll Walking Holidays in Scotland If your first reaction to ‘Cowal’ was ‘where’s that then?’ you’re not alone. Just perhaps, though, the very fact that it isn’t well known could be one of the very best reasons to holiday here. Cowal remains peaceful and unspoiled at least partly because it manages the difficult trick of being off the beaten track yet, at the same time, easy to get to*. A long peninsula, widening south-westwards between lochs Long and Fyne, it stands discreetly aside from the… more	Offered April-October Exertion level: 3 Comfort accommodations Max group size: 12 people Must form your own group? No
Highland Perthshire. Argyll & The Isles, Scotland	Highland Perthshire. Argyll & The Isles, Scotland Glasgow Airport, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom for 8 Days • from £1,535* per person Provider: About Argyll Walking Holidays in Scotland Highland PerthshireHighland Perthshire is far from the sea, in Scottish terms. With its high mountains, long, deep glens and an abundance of trees, highland Perthshire is a very distinctive part of Scotland, contrasting perfectly with the seaboard of Argyll. Perthshire was never a crofting county, deemed too rich, and lacking, at the time, the large, near-destitute rural population of the west. Instead, you will find rich estates and large farms, deer ‘forests’ and salmon rivers.Many parts of the country, three… more	Offered June, August Exertion level: 3 Comfort accommodations Max group size: 12 people Must form your own group? No

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