National Trust for Scotland places in Argyll & the Isles

Wild Atlantic peninsula on Mull with a 50-million-year-old fossil tree in the cliff, a five-mile walk each way from the Tiroran road end, and eagles overhead.

The cradle of Scottish Christianity, where St Columba landed in AD 563, with white shell-sand beaches, corncrakes and the Trust's Maol Farm; the abbey is charged separately.

Island of hexagonal basalt columns west of Mull with Fingal's Cave and summer puffins, reached by tour boat from Fionnphort, Iona, Ulva Ferry, Tobermory or Oban.

Eight uninhabited islands west of Mull where Lunga's puffins nest within feet of visitors, reached by tour boat from Ulva Ferry, Tobermory or Fionnphort.