Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Edinburgh Castle Lower Ground View

 

Before we go into details about what is inside the castle, I thought I'll just do a quick post of the views around the castle since I took so many lovely photos of it. For a start, above is the castle square. I call it that cause it's just a large space outside of the castle, but I guess I should use the proper name, which is the Esplanade.  Most people lingers around here, and you can come up at night to see the castle being lighted up. Sometimes there are light shows here, and sometimes performances or ceremonies held here. I thought about whether to attend a Tattoo performance which happens in August, but I think everything would be expensive then, and super crowded, and I don't think I'll have much fun then as I do during the low period. 

From inside of the castle, you could see the side profile of the castle walls. These looked lovely, cause here was where your imagination could run while, and images of stories or books you've read can come alive as you walked through those courtyard or corridors of the castle, with their small towers, stone windows etc.

Here are some photos of the castle ground, specifically those on the edge of the castle. Compare this area to the Forbidden City, it's considered small. But what it lacks in space, it has in character! 

And here are views from the castle. It was nice to be able to spot landmarks from the top of the castle looking down to Edinburgh. Here below was Princess Street Garden and the church in the middle where we had explored the day before. We walked thought the gardens plenty of time while we were in Edinburgh. 

Here is another part of Edinburgh, and you could see the sea at the horizon. I'm not too sure where this location is, perhaps it was  further down Princess Street, where we walked towards Dean's Village? Probably at the new town area since the buildings were all still so modern looking and neat.

Here is another viewpoint. You could see the hills at the horizon. Was it Arthur's Seat? Everything looked far from the castle, but actually, Edinburgh is pretty walkable. We did walk to Dean's Village and back. We haven't been to Leith area, or Southbank area. We tend to walk everywhere, and the city itself has so much to see that I felt that this may be my 2nd favour country to far after Japan! A place where I would love to go back to and explore again and again, if only it wasn't so darn expensive!

Last photo, view looking towards Calton Hill, and you could see the Scots' Monument in the photo too! Landmark is great for navigating the city. So I use Scot's Monument to navigate myself at the new town, and Edinburgh castle can be seen pretty much from everywhere. And once you're at Royal Miles, its pretty straight forward single road to walk. But if you turned into any close or stairs, you could end up at a different part of town just by going up or down stairs! The level game here is insane!