You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen …
We really were playing reindeer games! And it was one of our favorite experiences in Scotland!
All of Scotland is like one giant national park (Josh quote), but within Cairngorm National Park, there is the Cairngorm Reindeer Center and an amazing, unique experience possible for visitors. As stated on their website, “The Cairngorm Reindeer Herd is Britain’s only free-ranging herd of reindeer found in the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland.” The center offers a hike to go see the reindeer herd, and to interact with, pet, and feed the reindeer!
This was one of the experiences on our multi city trip’s itinerary that we kept a secret from the kids until that day, and it was absolutely one of the highlights of our trip!
Even before we saw a single reindeer, this hike was gorgeous! I was a little bit apprehensive about it at first because when we read about the experience online it sounded like a pretty tough hike, and I’m sure in winter weather it is a lot harder, but for our October day it was totally fine even for our little guy