“We simply open our doors and invite you in.”

We are a small family business - mother, daughter, son and DOGS!

We come together for some of the experiences but we also work independently of each other so you could, in fact, book a day with each of us – 3 days with one family – that is unique.

“When you’re happy, we’re happy!”

“Most famous food gurus live a high life of Michelin-starred restaurants, champagne-drenched parties and the very best of urban living. Allow us to introduce an exception to that rule: the intrepid and rather remarkable Ghillie Basan”
Landrover One Life

Ghillie is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, food anthropologist, storyteller and tourism provider in the Scottish Highlands. She grew up in East Africa, worked as journalist in Istanbul and the Middle East and as a freelance food and travel writer in India, Southeast Asia and North Africa. Her interest in diverse culinary cultures has culminated in over 50 books, many of which have been nominated for, and won, prestigious global awards.

Ghillie has been described as ‘one of the finest writers on the Middle East’, she has presented and contributed to a variety of radio programmes, and she produces her own podcast, Spirit & Spice, featuring food and drink stories in Scotland. Spirit & Spice is also the brand name for her Whisky and Food Experiences which attract visitors from all over the world   Ghillie has also given Ted-style talks in Canada and Ireland, she has been a winner of the Highlands and Islands Innovation in Tourism Award and is a recognised food tourism ambassador for Scotland.

To find out more about Ghillie, her books, podcasts, cookery workshops and her holiday cottage, please go to her website: www.ghilliebasan.com and follow her on instagram @ghilliebasan

"Visitors from far and wide visit Ghillie’s stunning, remote Highland home to experience outstanding cookery classes and hospitality. Scotland is enormously lucky to have such a natural ambassador for the industry."
Fiona Richmond, Food and Drink Scotland

Yazzie is the Founder of Wilderness Wellbeing CIC, a social enterprise with an emphasis on community and connection in an outdoor environment. She is passionate about bringing people together and offers Retreats at different locations in the Scottish Highlands and at her home in the Cairngorms National Park. Yazzie is also a BASI Level 4 Ski Coach and worked in Switzerland and Canada for a number of years and she works as a back country ski guide in Scotland where she is also a trained Mountain Leader and Personal Trainer.

For a number of summers Yazzie worked as cook and crew on chartered yachts in the Mediterranean and the west coast of Scotland but now prefers to be in the sea diving for scallops for her Retreats.

You can find out more about Yazzie’s business at www.wildernesswellbeing.scot and follow her on instagram @wilderness_wellbeing

Zeki Basan is the founder and head instructor of Highland Survival Skills. He leads courses at his home base in the Cairngorms National Park and teaches courses all over Scotland, working with different companies that use his expertise to engage people in the environment. For a number of years he worked as a Glacier Guide in Iceland and he is the lead guide for a unique course, Wild Lives, which runs on the south coast of Greenland where he works with a local family to deliver the traditional living skills in one of the last great wildernesses.

Zeki has made his own films about his work and has featured in different documentaries. He is also a qualified Lantra-trained Tree Surgeon and he makes portable saunas out of old horse trailers, one of which sits at a beautiful loch side on Rothiemurchus Estate.

You can find out more about Zeki on www.highlandsurvivalskills.com and follow him on instagram @highlandsurvivalskills and @caledonian_treesurgery