Last week I’d been thinking about where to go after dropping Shaun off at his new flat, when a leaflet from Visit Scotland fortuitously arrived in the post. It featured a question about Mither Tap in Bennachie, so that’s where we went on the Saturday.
Walkhighlands suggests a good walk, and we started off from the excellent Bennachie Centre on a lovely morning.
Outside the Bennachie Centre
The spotless toilets at the Bennachie Centre
The Centre provides a very informative map for walking in this area. Mither Tap is 518 metres, and a straightforward walk from the busy car park. At the top are the remains of a large Pictish fort. The leaflets explain that this hill was first occupied in 10,000 BC.
The path goes through the remains of the stone walls of the fort
The path through the walls
Above the first wall
The views from the top are superb. To the north and east is prime Aberdeen farming country.
Looking over towards Craigshannoch
The rocky top
We continued over to Millstone Hill, at 408 metres.
Mither Tap from Millstone Hill
Overall, an excellent walk in some hills that we had not visited before.
Well done for finding your way out of the carpark this time!! Great lavvies as well!
There’s good signage.
I wonder what the Picts found to eat in that barren landscape.
I doubt if they lived there. It was probably for defense.