Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
MacTours
(
www.edinburghtour.com
; adult/child £12/5)
Similar tours to City Sightseeing, but in a
vintage bus.
BUS TOUR
Majestic Tour
(
www.edinburghtour.com
; adult/child £12/5)
Runs every 30 minutes (every 20 minutes in
July and August) from Waverley Bridge to the Royal Yacht
Britannia
at Ocean Terminal
via the New Town, Royal Botanic Garden and Newhaven, returning via Leith Walk, Ho-
lyrood and the Royal Mile.
BUS TOUR
Walking Tours
There are plenty of organised walks around Edinburgh, many of them related to ghosts,
murders and witches. For starting times of individual walks, check the websites.
Black Hart Storytellers
(
www.blackhart.uk.com
;
adult/concession £10/5)
Not suitable for young children. The
'City of the Dead' tour of Greyfriars Kirkyard is probably the scariest of Edinburgh's
'ghost' tours. Many people have reported encounters with the 'McKenzie Poltergeist', the
ghost of a 17th-century judge who persecuted the Covenanters, and now haunts their
former prison in a corner of the kirkyard.
WALKING TOUR
Cadies & Witchery Tours
(
www.witcherytours.com
;
adult/child £8.50/6)
The becloaked Adam Lyal (deceased) leads
a 'Murder & Mystery' tour of the Old Town's darker corners. These tours are famous for
their 'jumper-ooters' - actors who 'jump oot' when you least expect it.
WALKING TOUR
Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour
(
www.edinburghliterarypubtour.co.uk
;
adult/student £10/8)
An enlightening two-hour
trawl through Edinburgh's literary history - and its associated howffs (pubs) - in the en-
tertaining company of Messrs Clart and McBrain. One of the city's best walking tours.
WALKING TOUR
Mercat Tours
WALKING TOUR
