Date: Sunday 27th October

Activity: Dunkeld Guided Walk

This walk is organised by the Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust and is also part of the Big Tree Roots Project.
Location: Meet at Dunkeld North car park, beside the Cathedral.
Start Time: 10am – 11.30am
Book your Place: Free of charge. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office Tel: 01350 724281 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Numbers limited.
A guided walk from Dunkeld Cathedral around the grounds of Dunkeld Hilton with Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust. The walk will take in the many awe inspiring and record breaking trees that are the legacy of the Planting Dukes of Atholl.

Activity: Autumnal Medicinal Herb Walk with Plant Ideas

Location: Meet at the Yurt, Stanley Hill, Dunkeld.
Start Time: 10am
Book your Place: £5. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office BOOK ONLINE or Tel: 01350 724281. Numbers limited to 12.
Easy walk but dress sensibly for the weather. A chance to learn more of the countryside around us in an autumnal medicinal herb walk which will look at roots and tree uses.

Date: Tuesday 29th October

Activity: Archaeology Walk - The Queen’s View: an Iron Age monumental roundhouse

This walk is organised by the Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust.
Location: Meet at the Allean Forest Car Park, Loch Tummel, just past the Queen’s View Visitor Centre.
Start Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Book your Place: Free of Charge. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office Tel: 01350 724281 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Numbers limited to 15.
Join archaeologists David Strachan and Sophie Nicol of Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust to visit this remarkably well preserved Iron Age building, excavated by Margaret Stewart from 1974-7. Discover something of the fascinating story of these monumental buildings and how they functioned at the end of the First Millennium BC. A second part of the walk is on 31st October if you fancy further immersion in Perthshire's archaeological past!
This walk is very easy - though as ever appropriate footwear/clothing recommended.

Date: Thursday 31st October

Activity: Archaeology Walk - The Black Spout: an Iron Age monumental roundhouse

This walk is organised by the Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust.
Location: Meet at the car-park at the Black Spout Wood at the south-east end of Pitlochry.
Start Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
Book your Place: Free of Charge. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office Tel: 01350 724281 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Numbers limited to 15.
Join the Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust  archaeologists for the second part of this journey, to visit the site excavated by David Strachan of the Trust from 2005-9, and the subject of a major new publication. Perched on the Edradour burn, beside the spectacular waterfall, the site itself is worth a visit! Learn how these massive 'monumental roundhouse' buildings, in many ways Perthshire’s ‘brochs’, were built and used, and how they related to the other buildings of the Iron Age, such as crannogs, hill-forts and souterrains…
This walk is very easy - though as ever appropriate footwear/clothing recommended.

Activity: Photographic Walk Experience with Graham Lumsden

Location: Meet at the lay-by past Craiglush Loch
Start Time: 10.30am
Book your Place: £5. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office BOOK ONLINE or Tel: 01350 724281. Numbers limited to 15.
Following his previous popular guided walks photographer Graham describes what's on offer during this year's festival!
"What better way to unwind than a Hill Loch Walk?
 Come with me and find a wee piece of peace.
A gentle climb up to Cardney Loch is our destination this year.
 Cardney Loch is a hidden gem in the gentle hills between Dunkeld and Butterstone.
 To reach Cardney Loch, drive from Dunkeld on the the Blairgowrie Road….past the golf course and Loch O' The Lowes is on your right (a great place to stop and have a look at the Ospreys nesting). You then pass Craiglush Loch by the roadside, and a few hundred yards beyond you will come to a layby that is partly closed off. Carefully, turn in here and park sensibly.
We will assemble and take the gently rising path through lush woodland, following the Aldtine Burn, stopping for photographs as you choose.
I will be available for photographic tips and hints as you wish.
On reaching the summit, this small fishing Loch will unfold before you in all its serene beauty.
There you will have the opportunity to practice your landscape photography at leisure.
Please bring a picnic, camera and water proof clothes".
The walk-in takes around 20 – 30 minutes.
Please note that the walk is Weather Permitting.

Date: Saturday 2nd November

Activity: 'Amber Inspirations' - A Photographic Walk to The Hermitage with Stuart Blance.

Location: Meet in the Hermitage carpark...you can walk over from Dunkeld or take your car.
Start Time: 10am
Book your Place: £5. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office BOOK ONLINE or Tel: 01350 724281. Numbers limited to 15.
Easy walk but dress sensibly for the weather.
This will be an inspiring and informative walk with local photographer Stuart Blance whose stunning landscape photography captures the essence of Perthshire in all it's seasons. He'll share some tips and techniques as well as his own enthusiasm for this beautiful and historic walk.

Activity: Kenmore Pinetum Guided Walk

This walk is organised by the Perth & Kinross Countryside Trust and is also part of the Big Tree Roots Project.
Location: The Courtyard shop and information point, Mains of Taymouth, Kenmore. Parking is available at The Courtyard or in the centre of the village. .
Start Time: 10am – 11.30am
Book your Place: Free of charge. Pre-booking essential from Festival Office Tel: 01350 724281 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Numbers limited.
A walk through the Kenmore Pinetum, formerly part of the extensive grounds of Taymouth Castle and home to one of the best collections of conifers in Scotland. The walk is led by Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust. Taymouth was originally owned by Sir Duncan Campbell, “Black Duncan”, who re-planted Drummond Hill in the late 17th century and so led the movement to plant trees across the estates of Perthshire. This could tie in with the Amber Afternoon Concert at The Crannog on Loch Tay with Gina Macleod & Alan Jordan which begins at 2.00pm. Why not treat yourself to lunch at The Courtyard Restaurant in between.
Please note the path at the Pinetum can be muddy...so wear appropriate footwear.