Passing through the mountains of the Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands are a rugged area of Scotland, famous for its mountains and lakes (Lochs). Some of the places are now well settled, so they can hardly be called rugged, but there are large chunks of area that are rugged, and beautiful. Many of these places are easy to visit, with highways passing through them; you just need to step off the highway when you are near a Loch or a mountain and you can see the full beauty of nature in the Highlands. In the following photos, you are actually seeing nature close to the highway which passes through, although if you were not seeing the highway, you would not be easily able to make out that this place is connected to civilization. The presence of lakes also provides a place to enjoy water sports, which can also be seen.

Multiple hills in the Scottish Highlands with wires in front (More photos)

Hills in the Scottish Highlands. These seem sufficiently rugged, with almost no habitation on the hills. The dark clouds overhead complete the notion that this is an outdoors place, as nature intended. However, then you have wires passing in front of the view, which provides proof of the presence of civilization all around you along with the highway on which you are traveling on.

Hill in the Scottish Highlands with scrub and other vegetation (More photos)

This is a view of a hill in the Scottish Highlands. Even though these hills are not very high, they do not have thick vegetation. The vegetation in this region of the Scottish Highlands is mostly scrub, and on this mountain you can see scrub and exposed rock.

On a highway passing through the Scottish Highlands (More photos / Prints)

Who would not want to travel on such a road ? A lovely road passing through the Scottish Highlands, with trees, greenery and mountains on one side, and a stream on the other side (this point is actually a bridge). One can keep on driving easily on such a highway (as long as one does not run into any emergency, in which case it could take some time to get help).

Boats in a Loch in the Scottish Highlands (More photos / Prints)

With so many lakes in the Scottish Highlands, recreational facilities are also available in plenty. I don't know which Loch is this, but there are many boats here. On the other side of the loch are houses and other such buildings, and a lot of greenery above the buildings.