5 British Isles tours to get excited about
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We learned so much about what makes you happy with our first British Isles tours. Everything you’ve told us has gone into making our 2025 and 2026 guided tours better than ever. From taking you to our latest favourite locations to showing you amazing new discoveries, our small group tours are always evolving to bring you the very best experience available.
We couldn’t be more excited to take you on these brand-new or new-and-improved tours to Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Southern England.
Get ready for an exciting choice of British Isles tours – landscapes, Irish folklore, Scottish whisky, English sea monsters and more…
1. Immersive West Coast of Ireland tour
Our first 2025 GeoCultura tour to Ireland offers a brilliant blend of landscapes and legends, coastlines and castles, mountains and music.
Starting and finishing with a night in Dublin, we visit the West Coast of Ireland with our seven-day tour to Galway Bay and the Cliffs of Moher. In between exploring a UNESCO Global Geopark, movie-worthy scenery, and Iron Age forts on the amazing Aran Islands, you’ll stay in a cosy inn that’s in the heart of the Geopark. With an expert at your side, uncover the secrets of this rugged landscape and the stories behind the views.
This tour is the best introduction to Ireland’s unique and wonderful food, culture and landscapes that we can think of.
2. Tour of the Scottish Highlands and Isle of Skye
Always one of our favourite places to show you, Scotland has enough spectaculars to keep you awed for years – which is why we keep going there. The country’s stories, scenery and charismatic local guides just keep us wanting more! We journey from Edinburgh to the Misty Isle on our 7-day, 6-night Scotland travel tour: Highlands, Skye and Outer Hebrides.
With two nights spent in a central Portee 4-star hotel on the Isle of Skye, you’ll also sail over to Harris and then on to Lewis, where you’ll stay overnight in Stornoway to have time for a visit to the famous 5,000 year-old Calanais Standing Stones. This tour is characterised by dramatic lochs, and dramatic slow-motion landslips, as well as hotels that feel as much a part of the landscapes as the surrounding mist-draped hills.
3. Highlands of Scotland, through a lens
We told you we can’t get enough of Scotland! Our September tour to the country is a 5-night Scotland and Isle of Skye guided tour. As well as learning to see the place through the landscapes’ deep-time origins and amazing stories from the past, one of your two expert guides, professional photographer Alex Hare, will teach you to capture the views of hidden lochs and towering peaks with your camera.
Alex is perfectly placed to guide this tour. He’s taught university-level photography students and hundreds of adults of all levels through his own workshops. And he’s an experienced photo tour guide. Whatever your level of experience, Alex can help you snap the scenery better – whether you’re working with a smartphone or SLR. Local experts and guides are on hand to offer you extra insights about the places you photograph, too.
4. Incredible landscapes of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
Yes, it’s back to Ireland again, this time covering a little more of the Emerald Isle. Our new 7-night Highlights of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way . Starting with an overnight stay in Dublin and an afternoon guided tour of the city, this magical trip takes you from the country’s lively capital to its rugged Atlantic coast, home to ancient castles, the soaring Cliff of Moher and storied landscapes. There’s private visit to one of the oldest distilleries in Ireland, and an artisan craft studios. You’ll explore the Dingle peninsula, make your wish at the Blarney Stone and stay in carefully chosen boutique hotels, B&Bs and historic inns.
5. British Fossil discovery puts a new angle on our Jurassic Coast tours
The world recently found out that the huge skull of a pliosaur, a ferocious apex ocean predator, has been prised from the cliffs of Southern England, a stretch of coastline at the heart of England’s only natural UNESCO World Heritage site. At 2 metres long and with around 130 razor-sharp teeth, the fossil is one of the most complete pliosaur specimens in the world – so incredible that it featured in a New Year’s Day David Attenborough special on BBC One.
The discovery will influence the itinerary of our upcoming six-day Southern England tour.
The amazing fossil will be on display at The Etches Collection, which features in our Southern England tour.
Looking for British Isles tours which combine two destinations?
With several tours of the British Isles running from May to September 2025, there is an opportunity to combine two our GeoCultura tours with a few days in between to relax. Our team will be pleased to assist with arranging accommodation for any extra overnight stays you need.
We hope to see you on one or more of our tours soon!
See all upcoming British Isles tours, including our upcoming Retracing Charles Darwin’s travels in North Wales tour.