Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 3 on 5/7/2002.

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A golden triangle (Speyside)

Speyside is a magical mix of the very best of Scotland - and on top of that, it's the sunniest part of the country.

Speyside is particularly famous for its huge number of distilleries. People travel from all over the world to take the tours, sample the wares and walk the grounds of some of the world’s best-known distilleries. But there’s a lot more to Speyside than first meets the eye, as with so much of Scotland. Flourishing around the distilleries, in the towns and villages, are a plethora of great restaurants and hotels, wild walks, hills to tackle, activities to enjoy and things to discover.

Speyside, despite being such a popular tourist destination, is relatively sparsely populated. Even though you’re never far from civilisation, it has a feeling of isolation befitting this region of the Highlands.

INFORMATION
Information on the entire Speyside area (we have concentrated on Moray) can be found at a number of useful web sites:

www.visitscotland.com
www.castlesandwhisky.com
www.host.co.uk
www.undilutedscotland.com

SPEYSIDE FACTS
·Gordon and MacPhail’s shop in Elgin stocks more than 630 different whiskies
·Strathisla Distillery in Keith, founded in 1786, is the oldest working distillery in the Highlands
·Benromach Distillery in Forres is the smallest distillery in Speyside
·58 whisky distilleries, more than half of Scotland's total, are located in Speyside
·The Moray Firth is home to only one of two resident populations of bottlenose dolphins in the UK
·The River Spey is Scotland’s second-longest – and fastest – river at 110 miles
·Baxters, known as one of the great commercia.....

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By Dominic Roskrow

Section : Regional Focus

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