Eoligarry: the airport on a Hebridean beach

On the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Eoligarry hosts the world's only airport where planes land directly on the sand of the beach.

A car remains useful to explore the island, whose airport rises on the beach itself.

The beach of Traigh Mhòr, which serves as a landing strip at low tide, remains the only airport in the world to operate on sand according to a schedule dictated by the tides.

A few minutes away, Kisimul Castle, on an islet in the middle of a bay, remains the only medieval fortress of the Outer Hebrides still intact.

Continuing along the coast, one walks on beaches of white sand that, despite the Atlantic climate, recall tropical landscapes on sunny days.

Toward evening, the few pubs on the island animate evenings with traditional Gaelic music, a language still spoken by part of the local population.

Barra Airport remains the world's only airport where regular scheduled flights land directly on a beach's sand, with flight times changing daily based on tidal levels.

Kisimul Castle, the historic seat of the MacNeil clan, was completely restored in the twentieth century thanks to an agreement to lease it for a symbolic dollar per year with the Scottish government.