Our 2nd stop on our 2nd day of the Isle of Skye tour, and I'm all overly excited! We're going to visit the Fairy Pools! Even the name itself was probably the reason I'm so excited. I love that it has "Fairy" in it. And I've seen photos on the internet, and it was such a lovely place! But I've only seen photos, and not read up much about it, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
So our guide dropped us opposite the road, and told us to just walk right in and back in two hours. I think it was two hours. Or maybe 1.5hours. She said there is no ending point. Just turn back whenever you want or when your time is up. Above in the photo, you could see a winding road that goes all in the way into the valley and towards the mountains. Yay! We were actually going to get to walk there! So excited!
Here is a rough map of the place. So the "P" on the map is where we were left off and where we had to get back to. And even in the map, there really isn't a clear ending. I don't even know where we stopped before we had to turn back. I remember it was 45minutes in, 45 minutes to walk back. And off we went!
The first part of walking in was fun and easy as it was going down sloped. But I had to remind myself that we have to walk the same way back, so better cater to more time to climb up the slow back to the highway roads! But would you just look at that view! I am so in love with this place!
As we walked further in, little streams and small waterfalls started to appear. This was why it was called to Fairy Pool, cause Fairy used to come and bath in these small pool made by the waterfalls. And noted that the weather we had while we were there wasn't really nice and sunny, so our photos were a bit dark and mysterious instead of those you might have seen which are blue and sunshine and everything good and bright :P
Some of the waterfalls and streams were larger, and we could just walk beside them all the way deeper and deeper into the mountains! The walk was pretty easy, not too steep except for the part coming down from the road. There was a small stream area which we had to cross, but it had some rocks where you could jump or walked across on. I had boots, so I wasn't too worried. It wasn't like those river that I once fell into in Vietnam Sapa area. Here, it was hardly knee deep for the crossing. But the wider ones were of course, basically a running stream/river.
The landscape was just amazing. Yeah, it really made you believe in fairies here!
Water running down. Legend has it that if you hold your face into the water and count to 7, you will get beautiful youthful skin. The water was ice cold.
Land of a thousand waterfalls.
Just let your imagination go wild here. Can you imagine fairies bathing here?
We were there in April, so I guess it's not full summer yet. Should be pretty cold!
Here's me walking into my dream world <3
Selfie with a mysterious pyramid shaped black hill in front. I think we decided to turn back from this point so that we can make it back to the parking lot in time. Our groups all walked at their own pace and distance. Some went further ahead, some didn't venture far but decided to sat down and enjoyed some snacks or photo taking. If I was on my own, I guess I would have spend half a day walking all the way in and half a day walking out! I would have love to see how deep the fairy pool goes!
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