A journey through the Outer Hebrides will take you to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the British Isles. Beginning your journey on the Isle of Lewis, the north of this large island is relatively flat but has some hauntingly beautiful bays and beaches on the west coast. The Butt of Lewis is characterised by pounding seas and rugged cliffs that extend southeast to North Tolsta where they suddenly give way to two of the islands most beautiful beaches. The Garry Sands with their enigmatic rock stacks rising from the sand and the Traigh Mhor one of the longest on Lewis.
The west coasts of Lewis and Harris are famed for their stunning beaches and machair, but the Uig district of Lewis has some of the highest hills in the Outer Hebrides and many fine beaches and bays. The east coast of Lewis to the south of Stornoway is very rugged with hundreds of fresh water lochs and several very long fjord like sea lochs.
The hills of North Harris rise majestically to be crowned by the Clisham before descending to the shores of West Loch Tarbert, one of our most stunning sea lochs. The south of Harris is a superb mix of rugged, lunar like east coast and flower covered machair on the west.
The journey south on the west coast will take you past many of the stunning beaches that the Outer Hebrides have become famed for and this awe inspiring scenery is continued when you cross the sound of Harris to Berneray and North Uist.
The west coast of North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist are dominated by extensive areas of machair, rolling dunes and white-sanded beaches fringing a turquoise sea. In contrast the east coasts of North and South Uist have a mix of extensive peat moorland, rugged hills and long narrow sea lochs. North Uist in particular has so many fresh water lochs and lochans that from the air there would appear to be more water than land!
The islands of Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay continue this theme of rugged, hilly east coasts with machair and beach dominating the west coast.
