Highland Perthshire was once Celtic Atholl County and, before that, a Pictish kingdom. For a thousand years the route of the A9 highway, traveling through it, has been Main Street in the Highlands. Previously, when the landscape is dominated by the big woods of Caledonia, a refuge for wolves and bears, the trip was easier by river.
The change in the lowlands to the mountains is evident. On one side of the River Tay lies Birnam. On the opposite bank is Dunkeld, once was the boundary between the lowlands of speaking English and Gaelic-speaking Highlanders who emerged from the frowning hills to the north. Tay, River Scotland's largest, is the trunk of a dendritic drainage system Â'tree-shaped literally. Establishing a geographical and cultural form of Highland Perthshire.
The river bends in Strathtay Ballinluig through whose beauty took a visitor from Victoria to his knees in prayer and I will lobby Â'fit of Heavener. The first bridge over the River Tay is located in the thriving market town of Aberfeldy, six miles downstream from the 15-mile long Loch Tay. The people of Killin is at its western end.
Tummel joins the Tay in Ballinluig and the A9 continues north to the capital of this Pitlochry in the heart of Scotland, which has been a holiday destination from the first day of the proceedings.
Here is another great river valley Strathtummel, heads west through the hills of the old route to the Isles, Loch Tummel and Loch Rannoch past the small village of Kinloch Rannoch at his feet.
North on the A9 from Pitlochry, the river near the road is now Garry. Pasa Blair Atholl, dominated by big castle wedding cake Blair who has controlled this passage in the mountains for centuries.
The road climbs to the pass of Dalnacardoch marking the border of Highland Perthshire and Inverness-shire.
Highland Perthshire
Perthshire Wedding of the Haldane Family Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire
