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The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Step ashore on one of Britain's most untouched wildlife sanctuaries — Copinsay RSPB reserve. Towering sea cliffs host tens of thousands of guillemots, razorbills, and puffins in a landscape utterly unchanged for centuries.
Walk the inner sanctum of the Ring of Brodgar and step inside a 5,000-year-old Neolithic village at Skara Brae — the finest prehistoric monuments in the British Isles, explored with your own specialist archaeologist guide.
Cruise Orkney's wild Atlantic coastline in an open-top trike with a local guide at the helm — an utterly exhilarating way to take in sea stacks, standing stones, and sweeping skies that define these archipelago islands.
Discover one of WWII's most moving stories — Italian prisoners of war who fashioned a breathtaking ornate chapel from two Nissen huts and scrap metal on a remote Orkney island. An intimate, deeply human chapter of wartime Britain.
Circumnavigate Copinsay Island by private charter boat to photograph its iconic 1915 lighthouse from the sea — a classic red-and-white tower rising above dramatic storm-sculpted cliffs, rated among the most photogenic in the UK.
Descend into a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb engineered to channel the midwinter solstice sun — and read the largest collection of Viking runic graffiti in the world, carved by Norse explorers who broke in 900 years ago.
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