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Really Get Away From It All On St Kilda

Keen to go on holiday and escape the tourist hordes? Then you could certainly do a lot worse than making your way to St Kilda. Read on to find out more.

Keen to go on holiday and escape the tourist hordes? Then you could certainly do a lot worse than making your way to St Kilda, the only dual Unesco World Heritage Site in the UK – and just one of 39 in the entire world!

A community lived on the islands for at least 4,000 years but the final 36 people were evacuated in 1930. No one lives there now but you can sail your way to the islands for an experience quite like no other.

A trip will reveal an abundance of wildlife, with the islands home to almost one million seabirds – as well as the largest colony of Atlantic puffins in the UK. The archipelago itself is the remotest part of the British Isles, 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides.

The main island is Hirta, along with Boreray, Dun and Soay. You’ll also find sea stacks Levenish, Stac an Armin and Stac Lee, the latter of which is the highest in Britain. As well as puffins, you’ll find the biggest colony of gannets in the world on Boreray and the sea stacks!

And the archipelago also has its very own species of bird – the St Kilda wren, a larger sub-species of the mainland wren. Keep your eyes peeled for it, although you may find it something of a challenge as there are only a few hundred pairs.

There are also some amazing diving opportunities to be had in this wonderful part of the world, with clear water and lots of submerged caves and tunnels to explore.

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