Visiting Scotland Sept 27-Oct 8 Edinburgh for 3 days then one week in east Highlands. Staying at Ballater near Balmoral Castle. Need info. on day trip from this location.

If you post this on the Europe board, you'll get lots of help.

Any chance you are staying at the Craigedarroch?

Anyway - there are quite literally hundreds of places you go as day trips. You will run out of time long before you run out of places to go.

a very short list:

Dunnottar/Crathes/Craigevar/Fraser castles. All are to the east of where you are staying

A trip west along the Dee and down the Spittal of Glenshee through some amazing scenery

N/NW through Grantown on Spey/Dufftown for whisky distilleries/Tomintoul/scenery/castles

To Inverness for Culloden/Loch Ness/Urquhart castle/Ft George, etc

North to the coast and Elgin/Buckie/Findhorn

NE to the Aberdeenshire coast/Bullers of Buchan, etc

Huntly/NE Scotland falconry center (which is also near Dufftown)

And just the lovely scenery all along the Dee

oops - I didn't even notice we were on United States (just clicked off Europe). Yes re-post this ove there . . . . .

well it looks like rx has lost us - he hasn't posted over on Europe.