Historic Scotland Explorer Pass - Flexible Discount Ticket for Touring Scotland

When you tour with Visit Scotland's very flexible Historic Scotland Explorer Pass, there's plenty of time to enjoy Scotland's landscapes, lochs, coasts and mountains as well as its castles, abbeys, museums and prehistoric sites. Unlike some visitors passes that are only worthwhile if you commit yourself to a relentless trek from one landmark to another, the Historic Scotland Explorer Pass is good for a number of days within a longer period, giving you plenty of time for hill rambles, nature walks, loch fishing, golf and boating - all that good, outdoorsy stuff for which Scotland is best known.

You can buy a pass for:

• 3 days within a 5-day period
• 7 days within 14
• 10 days within 30

You don't feel obliged to rush around seeing castles when you'd rather do a bit of fly fishing. The castles will still be there a few days later and so will the discount value to which your pre-paid Historic Scotland Explorer Pass entitles you.

The pass provides for free entry to dozens of sites all over Scotland, its cities, its coasts, its highlands and islands. Visit

• Caerlaverock Castle near Dumfries
• Edinburgh Castle
• Arbroath Abbey
• Prehistoric Norse settlements in Shetland
• Orkney's impressive neolithic Maes Howe and Skara Brae

These and dozens more sites - along with normal prices so that you can compare value - are listed in the Visit Scotland Online Brochure.

There's also a very useful link to maps of Scotland and suggested Scottish touring itineraries there.

The pass is available by clicking on the Historic Scotland website. Price depends on the number of days purchased as well as the type of pass. The passes are available in adults, family, senior and child versions.