Battle of Culloden

Trip Start Mar 22, 2008
1
24
33
Trip End Ongoing


Loading Map
Map Options
Show trip route
Hide lines
shadow

Flag of United Kingdom  , Scotland,
Thursday, October 2, 2008

About 2 miles from Inverness are the Culloden Battlefields.  As I hadn't been there yet, I paid a visit.  It's quite eerily quiet - I can't quite describe it.  There is a new visitors centre there, which is brilliant.  You are inundated with history and information on the Battle of Culloden, and there is a video room where the screens are on all 4 walls, so it is like you are in the middle of the battle - really well done.  They do walking tours throughout the day, but as I was in a bit of a hurry, I went myself.  What I didn't realise is that if you walk round the battlefield yourself, they issue you with headphones, explaining all the different significant areas.  I didn't realise until I was far away from the visitor centre and had passed a couple of people with the aforementioned headphones.  I was quite happy just reading all the info round the field anyway, but I'm sure with the headphones it would have been better - oh, and I failed to mention - I went round the wrong way, which was quite embarrassing.  I realised after passing a few people and the order in which I was reading, that you're supposed to go round the battlefield in a clockwise direction - ooops!  It was very interesting nonetheless.
Slideshow

Use this image in your site

Copy and paste this html: