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Best Walking Tours
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. Not suitable for young children.
enlightening two-hour trawl through Edinburgh's literary history - and its associated how-
ffs (meeting places, often pubs) - in the entertaining company of Messrs Clart and
McBrain. One of the city's best walking tours.
ating history walks and 'Ghosts & Ghouls' tours, but its most famous is a visit to the hid-
den, haunted, underground vaults beneath South Bridge.
pasty-faced Adam Lyal (deceased) leads a 'Murder & Mystery' tour of the Old Town's
darker corners. These tours are famous for their 'jumper-ooters' - costumed actors who
'jump oot' when you least expect it.
Edinburgh' frequented by novelist Ian Rankin's fictional detective, John Rebus. Not recom-
mended for children under 10.
Best Bus Tours
every 15 to 20 minutes from Waverley Bridge to the Royal Yacht Britannia at Ocean Ter-
minal via the New Town, Royal Botanic Garden and Newhaven, returning via Leith Walk,
Holyrood and the Royal Mile.
the Old and New Towns, from the castle to Calton Hill, aboard an open-topped vintage bus.
