Scotland
Knoydart Peninsula
No road reaches this peninsula — you arrive by boat or not at all.
There is no road to Knoydart. You arrive by small boat from Mallaig across Loch Nevis, or you walk seven hours over mountain passes from the nearest road end. Britain's last wilderness peninsula earns its isolation — and the isolation is the entire point.
Knoydart Peninsula in the western Highlands is the most remote part of the British mainland, accessible only by boat or on foot. The tiny settlement of Inverie holds the Old Forge pub, which held the Guinness World Record for the most remote mainland pub in Britain. The community bought the 17,000-acre estate from its absentee landlord in 1999 after a century of decline, and now manages it as a community trust. The surrounding mountains — Ladhar Bheinn's 1,020-metre summit is the most westerly Munro on the mainland — offer scrambling, wild camping, and complete solitude above the tree line.
Solo
Knoydart exists for the solo traveller who wants genuine remoteness. The walk in, the pub, the mountain — every element rewards self-reliance and a tolerance for your own company.
Couple
Arriving by boat, walking the peninsula's trails, and drinking at the most remote pub in Britain together creates a shared adventure that most couples will never forget.
Friends
A group expedition to Knoydart — boat in, climb Ladhar Bheinn, celebrate in the Old Forge — is the kind of trip that defines a friendship group for years.
- The only way in is a seven-hour hike over mountain passes or a small boat from Mallaig.
- The Old Forge pub in Inverie held the Guinness record for Britain's most remote mainland pub.
- The community bought the peninsula from its absentee landlord in 1999 after a century of neglect.
- Wild camping above Loch Nevis means falling asleep to the sound of nothing but deer and water.
The Old Forge in Inverie — the most remote pub on the British mainland, serving local venison and real ales.
Langoustines landed that morning at Inverie pier, cooked simply with lemon and eaten on the shoreline.
Serra do Cipó
Brazil
Campos rupestres — ancient stone meadows found nowhere else on Earth — carpeting a mountain spine.
Dunas de Tatón
Argentina
Sand dunes rise over a thousand metres at the foot of the Andes where nobody goes.
Lençóis Maranhenses
Brazil
Thousands of rain-filled lagoons between white dunes stretching to the horizon like another planet.
Carretera Austral
Chile
A thousand kilometres of gravel threading glaciers, fjords, and forests with almost no one on it.
Torridon
Scotland
Billion-year-old sandstone peaks rise from sea level like the backbone of a dead continent.
Applecross
Scotland
Britain's steepest road hairpins over a pass to a village that time circled and left.
Isle of Skye
Scotland
Basalt pinnacles erupt from cloud like the ruins of a planet still cooling.
Hoy
Scotland
A 137-metre sandstone stack stands alone in the Atlantic, defying every storm for four hundred years.