Scotland in one week: What to see and do? [closed]

With a week's time it will be difficult to visit all these places. Either increase your trip duration or drop few places from your list.

• While planning your journey, add few extra hours as you will be driving on the left hand side of the road. And most of the roads in Highlands are narrow/two lane roads.
• Drop Aberdeen from your list as there is nothing much intersting in this place, except for Oil industries :)
  • There are few castles around Aberdeen (Balmoral, Crathes, Dunnotar, Tolquhon - but keeping the time limit in mind, better drop Anerdeen)
• Stirling & St Andrews - these two palces are way off from the below suggested route. I would suggest drop them too
• Route that I would suggest - start from Glasgow
  • Glasgow - Kyle Of Lochalsh - Isle of Skye - Inverness (Loch Ness) - Edinburgh
• Have 1.5 days to spend in Glasgow & Edinburgh each and a total of 3 days to visit Kyle Of Lochalsh, Isle of Skye, Inverness (Loch Ness)
• To keep your expenditure low, go for Youth hostels and B&Bs for accommodation instead of hotels
• Renting a car works out cheaper than travelling in public transport.

PS: In case if you happen to visit Aberdeen, give me a shout we can meet for a drink :)

You're going to have difficulties covering all the places you've mentioned in a week. Just seeing the main attractions at the places you've mentioned will take you that long and you won't have a lot of time at each place.

Depending on how many people you are, the budget might be too low as well. I would estimate at least half of that for lodging and when you add petrol and food on top of that, you're not going to be left with much for visiting attractions, souvenirs, etc.

I would recommend focusing on a part of Scotland and taking some more time at each place. That way you could visit more places; I would in particular recommend a distillery somewhere.