"A Fantastic Disaster!!" Top 5 Page for this destination Durness by Bushman23

Durness Travel Guide: 40 reviews and 108 photos

The journey...

Our trip up to Durness is not one that i will easily forget! 5 of us left early on a Tuesday morning, all of us (being Myself, Helena, Dylan, Luke & Karel) very excited to be heading into kinda unknown territory... It all started well enough, leaving Ullapool early, in beautiful sunshine. Unfortunately the illusion was shattered 20 miles into the trip, when our front left tyre blew up... So anyway, after changing the tire (half an hour later), we continued on our merry way... About a mile outside Durness, our front right tyre blew up... :-p
Luckily the Scottish locals pulled through for us again. They really are one of the friendliest nations on earth!

Inquisitive Seagull

While we were waiting for our car to be repaired, we took a walk along to Smoo Cave, which is amazing, and spent some time on their stunning beaches. We even ventured into the water once or twice, though i wouldn't recommend that to any but the hardiest adventurers!
Ardvreck Castle is halfway between Ullapool & Durness, and definitley worth seeing. Cape Wrath is also just 12 miles away from Durness, which we unfortunately didn't get to see (car trouble...)

Inside Smoo cave

As for Durness itself, theres not really that much to shout about, in all honesty. Theres a couple general stores, one or two pubs, and a small craft village...

Pros and Cons

Pros:Beautiful scenery
Cons:out of the way
In a nutshell:Go, just to say you've been there

Last visit to Durness: Jun 2006
Intro Updated Jul 9, 2006
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Wonderful beaches Off The Beaten Path (1)

Durness has at least 3 or 4 great beaches, and because Durness is miles up North, the beaches are net very crowdy (the... more travel advice

Smoo Cave Things to Do (1)

A little way from the center of town, (a longish way if you walking) is Smoo Cave, probably Durness's most famous... more travel advice

Helpful locals Transportation (1)

We travelled up to Durness in my car, which was a piece of sh*t, and happened to have 2 blown tyres on the first half of... more travel advice

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HORSCHECK Mar 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM

Anton, lovely little page with brilliant photos. I only made it up to Thurso and John O'Groats in this part of the Scottish Highlands.
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globetrott Mar 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM

an interesting and remote part of Scotland !
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uglyscot Jan 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM

Lovely beaches. I nearly took a job teaching in the one-teacher school, but my mother wouldn't let me!
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ndahl Mar 6, 2007 at 5:55 AM

the surf there can be wonderful