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Country - Scotland
The Great Glen Way starts in Inverness, the capital of the Highlands and Scotland’s newest city. It follows Britain’s greatest geological fault – the glen linking the Atlantic to the North Sea – and finishes in Fort William in the shadow of Ben Nevis.
The entire walk is steeped in history dating back to the Iron Age. Craig Phadraig, one of ten hill-top forts in the area, is believed to date from 350 BC.
Day one is the most challenging of the five days, much of the time after the ascent out of Inverness being spent on very rough forest track. The slightly shorter day two also has ascents but these provide magnificent views of Loch Ness. Days three to five provide easy, pleasant walking and after the southern end of Loch Ness has been reached at Fort Augustus, the Way follows the Caledonian Canal, Lochs Oich and Lochy, and finally the Canal again past the famous Neptune’s Staircase to Fort William in the shadow of Ben Nevis
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