"A 200-year-old gathering of Clans MacLaren, MacGregor and Macnab that ends with the folk band Pure Malt playing in the beer tent."
Balquhidder, Lochearnhead and Strathyre Highland Games
"Wades Park at Aberfeldy hosts its games beside the same River Tay that Robert Burns immortalised in verse, where the Birks of Aberfeldy rise behind the field and the games serve as the climax of the town's summer show weekend in the heart of highland Perthshire."
Aberfeldy Highland Games
"Market Park in the town that was once the largest cattle market in Scotland and the southern end of the drove roads from the Highlands hosts its gathering each August, where the Knock hill rises above the ground and the games feel rooted in a landscape that shaped the character of the entire Highland cattle trade."
Crieff Highland Gathering
"Scotland's premier sheepdog competition over four days at Letham Farm in the Ochil Hills, where the nation's finest handlers qualify for the International and the once-every-three-years World Trial."
Scottish National Sheepdog Trials
"A secluded Perthshire glen games in the hills above Blairgowrie, where the heavy events take place on a field ringed by heather moorland and the highland dancing stage backs onto birch woodland."
Strathardle Highland Games
"Amid Shakespeare's Birnam Wood you can watch the gloriously daft World Haggis Eating Competition alongside the caber and the Mad Kiltie Dash."
Birnam Highland Games
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Games in the heart of Perthshire soft fruit country the weekend after Braemar, when the season's competitors make one of their final gatherings of the year on Bogles Field."
Blairgowrie Highland Games
"The Scottish Vintage Tractor and Engine Club brings a September rally to the Scone Palace parklands in Perthshire, where vintage steam, working horses and old farming machinery are demonstrated against the backdrop of the coronation place of Scottish kings and the finest parkland setting of any British vintage rally."
Farming Yesteryear and Vintage Rally
"Heavy events, dancing and a hill race above the town, closing with massed pipe bands in Highland Perthshire."
Pitlochry Highland Games
"At the stroke of midnight villagers light ten-foot tarred birch torches and parade them behind a pipe band before hurling the flames into the River Earn."
Comrie Flambeaux
✦ Weird & Wonderful"At the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay, selected villagers carry ten-foot birch poles topped with burning tarred rags through the streets of Comrie, led by the pipe band, before hurling the spent flambeaux into the River Earn in a custom believed to date to pagan or Pictish times."
Comrie Flambeaux Procession
"Scotland's multi-award winning children's festival in the castle grounds of Tullibole Castle: 90 all-inclusive activities from circus to nature play, music, storytelling and a peacock-dotted campsite described as the happiest place in Scotland."
Wildhood Festival
"The tiny village at the eastern end of Loch Tay holds its Highland games on a midweek summer day when the loch is perfectly still and the Breadalbane hills frame the caber and hammer competitions in a setting that artists and writers have been trying to capture since the eighteenth century."
Kenmore Highland Games
"Scotland's biggest country sports event across the parkland of Scone Palace, with four nations gundog competitions, terrier racing, working hill ponies, falconry and a Saturday night ceilidh under canvas."
GWCT Scottish Game Fair