A few years back, my wife and I spent a week bicycling around Mainland, Hoy, Rousay and Westray, we loved it and highly recommend Orkney for all those interested in archaeology and nature. It is a treasure.

I visited Orkney in 1963 and 64 and spend lovely days with Mr & Mrs Spence of Kirkwall. I''ll never forget the kindness or the Orkney Islanders!

Lovely photography - It is great to hear how people love to visit - It is great to be an Orcadian - I'm one of these lucky ones.

One of my great-great grandfathers immigrated to Canada from here, just before 1800. I wish to explore this branch of my bloodline someday.

Thank You !! We vacationed to Orkney (and Shetland) in the very early 2000's. There was virtually no internet back then so we based the entire trip on 3 lines of text in a hard copy travel guide that dedicated an entire 3 paragraphs to the Highlands and Islands. This was easily the most memorable vacation of my life and we loved every second. We never got off the Mainland, but enjoyed so many spectacular hiking locations in the mid-summer light - forcing ourselves to end hikes 1:00AM to get some kip, and listening to the sheep all "night". I would so love to return....

Lovely video. Thanks!

I always thought I was Irish and South West Scottish but GEDmatch gave me Orcadian as my #1 closest ethnic group! I had no idea, now I'm on a quest to learn as much as I can.

Oh no,after watching these videos I am more and more wanting to move there,it's so beautiful anytime of the year.Thanks so much for these.👍👍😁

I visited Papa Westray in the early 90's with my late wife and stayed with her sister and husband who lived and worked on the island, my wife's sister, Fiona, was District Nurse at that time. It is a beautiful place with wonderful scenery and a rich and historic culture. I have been longing to return for many years, perhaps someday soon.

Traveled from NZ to here. Fabulous place

My maternal grandfather came from Orkney at the beginning of the last century. Thanks to the on-line site Rousay Roots, I can trace that part of my family back to my 5th great-grandfather Magnus.

Magnificent. Thank You. 💐

I'm told this is where my ancestors come from. I've never been there. The old stone houses are amazing to see and the thought that my ancestors may have lived in them is beyond imagination.

Top class.

Thank you for lovely video😍

Bard's Tale is what revealed Orkney to me. Also it is in Hellblade!

beautiful, i will visit

@403 ,there is a place very most Identical to this in Newfoundlande. it is my hometown, Beautiful Scenery also 100-100 great post

Wonderful video!

Highly recommend a few days in the Orkney Islands. We drove up from Inverness, stopping at sights to and from, but our ancient archaeological appetites feasted in Orkney!

Looks wonderful 😀😀

Beautiful that arch

Greetings from Turkey 😊

Didn't know I was Scottish til I did my ancestry, it said Orkney in specific

hope my favorite place in the world made it thru the great storm.

Music is sooo loud on this video, when it’s played it drowns out the narrator

Wow good video

My family surname is Louttit. My great-great grandfather (all the way up the patrilinial line) came from these Orkney Islands (I don't know exact details). Not sure if his name either, but he came with the HBC. There's a spiral-bound book titled The Louttit Saga; I pray to G-d that I can find it in storage!

The Orkney accent sounds like an American trying to do a Scottish accent.

❤scotland 🎉😊mis haar😢

I have just booked a holiday after wanting to get there for a few years. I was all set for last year untill the lockdown

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I traced my ancestry to Orkney! 🙂😊

Live there in 1 year😍

so my dna test says my ancestors were from orkney, id love to find out more about it

Don't believe the hype, Orkney is rapidly becoming a giant chavy council estate island (i was brought up in one so thats factual and not snobbish) , in a couple of decades it'll be like a mad max scene...be careful whilst travelling there. Rousey is nice though...

Can’t wait to visit How’s the weather in March? As I would like to catch the northern lights

Can u travel to all of these little islands by car?

There needs to be something in your heart before you go; because if not, - even the most devoted and hard-bitten scientist will burn their last candle long before they had any business being there.

Im slightly confused is shetland and orkney same or different

Pretty sure that the narrator gradually transforms into Sean Connery as the video progresses.

What's the dwelling sir?

AllrRight Hamish

Best holiday ever!but why mention the Norse invaders who were in the islands for only six hundred years what a out its pictish or neolithic heritage that were there for thousands of years like the rest of Scotland! Fair braw though veldig braa !

Free orkney uk go home. Greetings from Turkey 😎

This is Berk.

Omg-ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

very nice..but for me ?ORK mean ORCA and NEY mean number 1...orkney=number one orca.

Any Omands or McKays in this thread? Going soon.

Narrator sound like a Malayali

The stone of Setter "Probably the finest pre-historic stone in Orkney", dated to the Neolithic period which ended around 6500 years ago, PRE-DATING ADAM AND EVE, is that at all possible for a young-earth creationist baptist to accept, Cameron?

And what about South Ronaldsay? 😠😠

Interesting to think this still could be Norwegian today

The accent sounds like a Franconian tries to speak English.