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The
Buchan and Formartine Way, using the trackbed
of the former Great North of Scotland Railway
from Dyce via Maud to Fraserburgh and Peterhead,
is the ideal way to see the open farming country
of Aberdeenshire. Like any railway, this route
uses only the gentlest of gradients.
This
area has ideal walking terrain for all levels of
fitness, including waymarked paths. These include,
for example, the Speyside Way, an official long-distance
footpath from the Moray coast by the mouth of the
River Spey to the foothills of the Cairngorms; also
the Gordon Way, running through the Aberdeenshire
heartlands by way of the local landmark hill of
Bennachie. For fit and experienced walkers there
are plenty of big days out to some of the highest
peaks of Scotland (Ben Macdui, for example, is the
second highest of Britain's mountains). |
