The Kelpies at Night, Falkirk, Scotland

Earlier this year, I was invited along for a few days away in Scotland, as I had seen three areas of the UK already this year (England – obviously, Wales and Ireland) I decided it would be nice to pretty much round off visiting (all be-it briefly) all areas of the UK (bar one – Northern Ireland) in the same year, so days were booked off from work and a hotel was booked.

The main plan for the visit was to base ourselves around the Falkirk area and do some sightseeing around that area.

On the first evening, we decided to go and see The Kelpies in arguably the best way – lit up at night.

We arrived at around half eight. just as it was going dark and ended up staying around until going on for midnight as they are a really spectacular sight to be seen – very popular too as there was a constant stream of people coming and going throughout our time there.

The sculptures themselves were designed by Andy Scott and were designed to represent the lineage of heavy horses which were a staple of the Scottish economy, used to pull wagons, ploughs, barges and coalships which shaped the area of Falkirk.

The Kelpies themselves are 30 meters high and weigh in at 300 tonnes each and took around four months to be completed.

The two horses are based on two real life working Clydesdale horses who were named Baron and Duke. Baron is the horse looking up to the sky and Duke is the horse who is calmly looking forwards as if observing everyone passing by.