Below is a list of our upcoming programmes listed by theme. You can also view our upcoming programmes listed by date.

Gardens of the Highlands

With a special focus on some of the Highland’s most special gardens, both private and public, this programme has been designed by garden lovers Lucy Lister-Kaye and Sue Pomeroy. Highlights include: Week long leadership from Sue Pomeroy, a longtime gardener…

27 Jul - 3 Aug 2024
Full Price: £1685

The Orkney Isles

The Orkney Islands are home to a unique and special blend of abundant wildlife and globally important historical sites. Making the best of the long summer days, this week will give you the opportunity to learn about and experience both…

21 Jun - 29 Jun 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £2685
Deposit Required: £401
14 Jun - 22 Jun 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £2685
Deposit Required: £400

Walking and Wildlife

More and more of our guests express the desire for longer walks in the stunning surrounding scenery. We are now offering more walking programmes than ever before. Striding out on long but low level walks, we will explore coastlines and…

27 Jul - 3 Aug 2024
Full Price: £1585
Deposit Required: £250
29 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1585
Deposit Required: £250
15 Jun - 22 Jun 2024
Full Price: £1585
Deposit Required: £250
8 Jun - 15 Jun 2024
Full Price: £1585
Deposit Required: £250
11 May - 18 May 2024
Full Price: £1585
Deposit Required: £250

The Famous Aigas Wildlife Week

Each week will be based at Aigas and will spend six full days (7 nights) exploring the stunning hills, glens, forests, coasts and marshes of the Highlands producing breathtaking encounters with eagles, pine martens, otters, black throated divers, deer, crossbills,…

5 Oct - 12 Oct 2024
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250
28 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250
31 Aug - 7 Sep 2024
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250
10 Aug - 17 Aug 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250
3 Aug - 10 Aug 2024
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250

Aigas Retreat

After listening to many of our guest’s suggestions, we have created Aigas Retreat – a week-long programme for those who would just like some quiet time to relax at Aigas, enjoy the nature trails, wildlife hides and gardens on the…

12 Oct - 19 Oct 2024
Full Price: £1245
Deposit Required: £250
28 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1245
Deposit Required: £250
31 Aug - 7 Sep 2024
Full Price: £1245
Deposit Required: £250

Fascinating Fungi with Liz Holden

Fungi are fascinating – by turns they are colourful, deadly, delicious, predatory, vital to ecosystems, luminous, rare, ubiquitous and laden with folklore associations. Their life-cycles are varied and extraordinary and we are only just beginning to understand the importance of…

14 Sep - 21 Sep 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250

Highland Landscapes with Jonathan Willet

The Highlands boasts some of the United Kingdom’s most magnificent vistas, and so, we have listened to our guests and created an itinerary solely dedicated to beautiful scenery. This programme will delve into a different habitat each day to revel…

31 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1585
Deposit Required: £250

Wildflowers and Gardens

June is upon us and rhododendron is all around us in the Highlands. This exciting programme combines our stunning wildflowers, found in equally stunning locations, and the Highland’s unique and varied gardens. We will explore the east coast at Loch…

29 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1565
Deposit Required: £250

Wildflowers and Walking

Timed to match optimum flowering, this week combines gentle walks into the hills and glens to search for orchids, sundews and delicate moorland flowers like milkwort, tormentil and lousewort, as well as specialist rarities such a twin flower and one-flowered…

8 Jun - 15 Jun 2024
Full Price: £1525
Deposit Required: £250

Incredible Invertebrates

This week we focus on the smaller species living alongside us in the Highlands, visiting a variety of the best wildlife habitats the Highlands have to offer. Each day will vary from the next – from searching the sheltered pools…

1 Jun - 8 Jun 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1350
Deposit Required: £250

Spring Birds

Our Spring Bird programme offers early morning visits to watch lekking black grouse at our local RSPB reserve. We bid farewell to thousands of pink-footed and greylag geese, ducks and waders and welcome back ospreys, cuckoos, wheatears, whinchats and many…

27 Apr - 4 May 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1650
Deposit Required: £250

Nature Photography Workshop with Laurie Campbell

Now limited to only ten participants, this course is suitable for everyone from very proficient photographers to relative beginners in the dSLR world. This year the workshops are in spring and autumn – timed to coincide with the most productive…

12 Oct - 19 Oct 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1565
Deposit Required: £250
13 Apr - 20 Apr 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1565
Deposit Required: £250

Nature’s Child

This popular week is inspired by John Lister-Kaye’s book, Nature’s Child, which is a meditation on the delights of sharing nature with his youngest daughter Hermione. He fondly recalls those ‘fat Arcadian, literally wonder-full years of childhood,’ which usher back…

Aigas Wildlife Discovery

This programme in the first week of our season acts as a training week for our new trainee rangers. Guests will be accompanied by a senior ranger and a trainee who will use this opportunity to take the lead and…

6 Apr - 13 Apr 2024 - Fully Booked
Full Price: £1245
Deposit Required: £250
30 Mar - 6 Apr 2024
Full Price: £1245
Deposit Required: £250

High Level Walking and Wildlife

More and more of our guests express the desire for longer, more challenging hill walks in the stunning surrounding scenery. In addition to our more gentle Walking and Wildlife weeks, we are now offering one high level hiking week a…