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At Hebridean Excursions we provide unique guided tours to suit your travel and planning, your own tour and adventure starts from where you wish to be uplifted. You decide the dates and destination we will do the rest. With the help of our dedicated team and the information that you provide us with, we will arrange to construct your very own unique holiday of Scotland and its beautiful islands.
Whether you choose the stunning scenery of the Highlands or the tranquillity of the Outer Hebrides, your own personal guided tour will be an adventure to remember. Our drivers are experienced, local and have a wealth of knowledge of Scotland and its history.
We can also arrange where you would like to stay, whether it's a Hotel, Lodge, B&B or Chalet, we have many contacts in the Highlands.
Travel to historic castles and learn all about the Clans, trace your roots and ancestry, see Harris Tweed being made, sample a dram at a distillery or just sit back and enjoy the surroundings. Travel by boat around the Western Isles, visit the black houses or have a look around Uist and Barra or visit Skye.
Glasgow and Edinburgh, Inverness, Fort William and Oban. There's many places to visit and enjoy.
Callanish Standing Stones

A "must-see" in Lewis are the world famous Calanais stone circles which, having been erected between 4,500 to 5,00 years ago, are as ancient as both Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Situated on the banks of Loch Road, the powerful and enigmatic Standing Stones dominate the skyline of the village of Callanish and beyond.
Formed from three neighbouring circles is a complex arrangement of some 50 large stones where avenues are formed by double rows which intersect through a central circle of 13 stones, standing between eight and 13 feet tall.
These surround an uncovered tomb and the tallest stone on the site, which measures in at a staggering 16 feet high, weighs a monumental 5.5 tonnes.

So spectacular and awe inspiring is the main circle of Calanais I, that two lesser stone circles situated nearby are often overlooked.
Just over the main road, a little to the south east of Calanais I is Callanais III a collection of 20 stones forming a double ring with an outside diameter of 16m.
And a couple of hundred yards to its west is Calanais II, an 18m diameter circle comprising of 10 stones, of which five are still standing.

Gearrannan Blackhouse Village Carloway

Facing the Atlantic, the evocative Gearrannan port is a superb destination for visitors interested in the past ways of life of the Outer Hebrides.
The "modern" blackhouse settlements first appeared towards the end of the 1800s as the stone buildings known as Shawbost Mill, or Mill of the Blacksmiths, originally restored in the late 1960s and again in the 1995.
Lewis was once home to as many as 200 such small horizontal wheel mills, and it is known that the Shawbost mill was active until the 1930s.
The first building visitors will approach is the kiln, completed with a raised stone platform and circular stone-lined pit which presumably contained the fire that heated and dried the grain spread around it.
The second building is the mill itself which would have been powered by a run off lathe from the nearby burn, fed by Loch Rionavat, that turned a curricular set of paddles to grind grain between the rough millstones.

Whalebone Arch- Bragar

Erected by former villager postmaster Murdo Morrison, the Whalebone Arch is created from the lower jawbones of a Blue Whale that came ashore nearby in 1920. Measuring 25 fee each and standing at a height of nearly 20 feed, the magnificent arch is bisected by a harpoon that was still in the whale, the explosive head having failed to detonate.
The 11 mile Point peninsular is well worth a visit and is just a short drive from Stornoway.

It may be joined to the rest of Lewis by the Braighe causeway but the community of Point has its own proud community.

With a population of around 2,000 people, Point has a scattering of 14 different villages and is a desirable place to live due to its rural location, close community and short distance to the amenities of Stornoway.

With beautiful scenery including several stunning beaches, there are a number of sites well worth a visit.

And while youíre in this neck of the woods, the new community shop and cafe is a great stop for a spot of lunch.

The Ui Church at the far end of the Braighe road is of major historical and religious interest. It is an A-listed building - a scheduled Ancient Monument. Built in the 14th century, the site was first occupied by St Catan, a follower of St Columba in the 6th century. Becoming the burial place of the Chiefs of the Clan Macleod of Lewis, the church contains two large carved grave slabs commemorating Roderick Macleod VII and this daughter Mackinnon who was the mother of John, the last Abbot of Iona, the Inside of the Church has recently re-opened to the public following a resto

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Heb Ex Facilities Ltd
5 Newlands
Stornoway
Western Isles
HS2 0PT
United Kingdom
01851 870 882 Mob 07774858307.
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