Scotland: Mysterious Alba

Seven-day/six-night private tour; departures through October 2012. Highlights: Edinburgh / Scone Palace / lunch cruise on Loch Ness past Eilean Donan Castle, Urquhart Castle / Dunvegan Castle on Isle of Skye / whisky tasting at Talisker Distillery / on Isle of Mull, Tobermory fishing village / Iona, whence Christianity spread in Scotland / Gleneagles golf resort/Stirling Castle / Bannockburn, where Robert the Bruce defeated the English. Land, from $7,536. No single supp. Cox & Kings (Los Angeles, CA; 800/999-1758).