Plan Your Trip to Durness: Best of Durness Tourism

By geordie9Kent

Explore Durness

If you’re hungry for a remote holiday in a stunning Scottish Highland, Durness is your perfect destination. Check out the seawater cum freshwater marvel of Smoo Cave, which features a waterfall and active marine life, including porpoises and seals. The northern sand dunes are a whirlwind of puffin activity. Durness was of particular significance to John Lennon, and supposedly inspired the Beatles song "In My Life."
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Essential Durness

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Things to do

  • Smoo Cave
    4.4 of 5 bubbles1,286
    Caverns & Caves
  • Cape Wrath
    4.5 of 5 bubbles348
    Geologic Formations
  • Balnakeil Beach
    4.8 of 5 bubbles312
    Beaches
  • Durness Beach
    4.8 of 5 bubbles402
    Beaches
  • Sango Bay
    4.8 of 5 bubbles192
    Beaches
  • Balnakeil Church
    4.3 of 5 bubbles6
    Churches & Cathedrals

Food & drink

  • Smoo Cave Hotel
    4.2 of 5 bubbles552
    $$ - $$$ • Bar, British, Pub
  • Cocoa Mountain
    4.1 of 5 bubbles1,203
    $$ - $$$ • Cafe
  • Sango Sands Oasis Restaurant and Bar
    3.7 of 5 bubbles463
    $$ - $$$ • Bar, British, Pub
  • Ozone Cafe
    4.9 of 5 bubbles23
    $ • Cafe, Vegetarian friendly

Durness Is Great For

Sand & surf

The great outdoors