Beyond the Myth: 7 Surprising Truths About Scotland’s Enchanting Fairy Glen
The Isle of Skye is a land that refuses to be ignored. To cross the Skye Bridge or arrive by ferry from Mallaig is to enter a theater of the sublime, where the scale of the landscape is calibrated to the heroic. Here, the jagged Black Cuillin mountains pierce the often-turbulent Atlantic sky, and the vast, windswept expanses of the Trotternish Ridge dominate the horizon with ancient, volcanic authority. It is a place where the traveler feels small, humbled by the sheer weight of time and stone. However, if you navigate the A87 northward toward the quiet harbor village of Uig, you will find a peculiar deviation from this Highland grandeur. Tucked away on a winding road near Captain Fraser’s Tower—a 19th-century folly that stands as a silent sentinel over the bay—lies an area known locally as Balnaknock or Bail nan cnoc (the "Village in the Hills"). This is the Fairy Glen. Beyond the Myth: 7 Surprising Truths About Scotland’s Enchanting Fairy Glen Unlike the sprawling, intimi...