The flight-free affordable adventure with Northern Lights, pine forests cabins

With the buzzing ‘Granite City’ as its capital, this corner of Scotland is a land of vast national park, rare beasts and accessible experiences

is popular with day-trippers and overnight Scottish visitors drawn to the coastal and highland landscapes, the food and drink, and castles. It’s a corner of north-eastern Scotland where you’ll find startlingly dramatic landscapes that range from historic harbours to sprawling forest and stone city.

Yet even ignoring for a moment the city’s highlights – we’ll come on to those later – it is the capital of a region that comprises a good slice of the, one of the wildest and most beautiful parts of the UK , which is less than an hour’s drive from the city. There are also 165 miles of outstanding coastline where the night sky has been frisky with spectacular displays of the Northern Lights in the past weeks.

, a Victorian village on the River Dee that’s a visitor springboard for Balmoral, upstream. From the village’s Bike Station, you can hire bikes and cycle the old railway track tracing the river, and then loop north around Loch Kinord to find its ornate Pictish stone cross or even sun-basking adders.

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