HIGHLANDS OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AROUND SHENVAL B&B                 NEAR LOCH NESS AND GLEN AFFRIC

In the Highlands of Scotland,  make Shenval organic Bed and Breakfast, near Loch Ness and Glen Affric National Nature Reserve, your holiday accommodation base for a wide variety of outdoor activities: walking, cycling, mountain biking, pony trekking, canoeing, snowshoeing, golf, archery, fishing, bird and wildlife watching...
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WALKING (From the Atlantic to the North Sea)

Located on the Affric Kintail Way in the Scottish Highlands, Shenval Bed & Breakfast is ideal for walking, rambling, hillwalking (Munros and Corbetts) and low level walks on the Atlantic and North Sea coasts in very diverse environments. This wide variety of walks is detailed further in our Highland Walking page.

CYCLING & MOUNTAIN BIKING 

Mountain bike hire available locally. Details on request. Major events: The Highland Cross in June. For more details, contact us

PONY TREKKING

Cougie: superb relaxed horse riding for adults and children in a wild and beautiful setting on the south boundary of Glen Affric National Nature Reserve. Details on request. Also horse riding centre in Drumnadrochit, by Loch Ness.

CANOEING

Water fun with experts. See our Links for Explore Highlands and In Your Element 
Loch Insh Watersports

SNOWSHOEING

Snowshoeing is one of the great winter pleasures in Glen Affric and surrounding glens close to Shenval B&B

GOLF

Nearest golf course is at Aigas, in Strathglass, a 30 minutes’ drive away from Shenval B and B, with very flexible opening times and peaceful surroundings.  Further afield, within an hour’s drive: Muir of Ord, Strathpeffer, Inverness, Rosemarkie, Fort Augustus, Nairn.  Details on request.

ARCHERY

In Your Element are on target to give you adequate practice ... See our Links for In Your Element.

FISHING

There is an abundance of river and loch fishing to be enjoyed close to Shenval Bed and Breakfast. From neighbouring Loch Meiklie to numerous hill-lochs and salmon and trout fishing in the rivers Glass, Beauly, and Farrar, as well as in Loch Ness itself.  Details on request.

Just 10 mns from Shenval B&B, fish in Loch Ness for trout (Ferox trout, Sea trout and Brown trout) and Atlantic salmon. See our Links for Fishlochness.

BIRD & WILDLIFE WATCHING

The area around Shenval B&B is a heaven for birds and wildlife with the RSPB's Corrimony Reserve within short walking distance. Glen Affric National Nature Reserve is only a 30 minutes' drive away while the RSPB's Loch Ruthven, near Loch Ness, is accessed by car in just over one hour. We are keen birdwatchers ourselves and can advise on when and where is best to observe some specific species.

• Golden eagle, osprey, red kite, peregrine falcon, black grouse, black-throated diver, puffin, Slavonian grebe, Scottish crossbill and crested tit are just a few of the most striking species seen by ourselves or our guests within a very short distance of Shenval bed and breakfast.
  

  We are the nearest B&B to Corrimony RSPB Reserve where the manager regularly organizes break-of-dawn outings to admire black grouse lek, mainly in April.
  

  Around an hour’s drive takes you to the mudflats of Munlochy Bay, Udale Bay, Nigg Bay and Loch Fleet, teeming with migrating birds.  And another 3 RSPB Reserves (Loch Ruthven, Insh Marshes and Loch Garten) are just under 2 hours’ drive away.
• Strathglass and Glens Urquhart, Affric, Cannich and Strathfarrar are home to red and roe deer, wild goat, pine marten, red squirrel and otter. An early morning walk or after-dinner stroll in the forest at the back of our house is often rewarded with the sighting of hinds, stags, roe deer or hare.
• Dolphins, seals and harbour porpoises can be seen from the Moray Firth shoreline. We can advise about the best times and places. Dolphins and other cetaceans cruises: see our Links page