Five Senses is a blend of ancient and modern skills to help you explore outdoors with confidence and awareness. Inspired by the natural environment and ancient skills, we offer you a way to live and thrive in nature.
Whether you learn to find your way by the stars, master campcraft, make fire with your hands, cook wild foods or explore Orkney, you will gain a strong sense of place and purpose that’s often missing in the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
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Firemaking sessionsMake fire with your bare hands.
You may think you don’t need this skill in the modern world — a match or an electric switch is quicker. But then you always have to rely on someone else to provide you an essential of life.
Learn from an expert how to make fire and know you can produce life-giving heat under any conditions: rain, snow or high winds. Once you do, the exhilarating sense of achievement will never leave you. (more…)
Guided Orkney walksDiscover Orkney’s hidden gems.
We love finding the places few know about, the views that surprise, the hidden nooks and crannies of our islands that make us smile.
Our job is to find these places and then make it easy for you to enjoy them.
Come find out for yourself on our next half-day walk, taking place regularly throughout the year and see if we don’t surprise you.
Malcolm is an experienced Orkney tour guide and qualified mountain leader, a teacher of survival skills, a geographer and environmentalist.
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If you’ve got Sat Nav, why bother? When something else can tell you where to go, why do you need to know how?
You don’t, as long as you never leave the well-trodden path.
For those who like finding their own way, learn to navigate — not just with compass and map, but by starlight and moon, wind and sun — and you’ll never be lost again. (more…)
3 Day Orkney ExperienceOrkney is full of amazing sights, many of which are regularly missed by visitors because they’re not in the guidebooks or are hard to find.
We’ve spent years exploring, finding our favourite locations and tailoring them to the kinds of experiences our guests most want to have.
Tell us a bit about what you want and we’ll come up with your magical holiday.
It is entirely possible for you to be truly eco-friendly and to explore Orkney without using a car or bus. We will guide you however best suits you.
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Bushcraft and Survival courses
Bushcraft is art as well as skill. It is a way of life, living as part of nature.
Survival is about knowing what to do, in what order, fast and effectively.
Learn both in a friendly way that’s in tune with nature, that does not compromise our future survival on this planet.
Five Senses teaches bushcraft survival focusing upon self-reliance and the minimal amount of kit; inspired by the Stone Age in Orkney. We emphasise using your hands, brain and senses to be safe and feel good outdoors. (more…)
5 star camping is about being really comfortable and having real fun too.
If you like the ‘idea’ of camping but hate the discomfort, horrible plastic equipment, the boredom and feeling like you don’t know quite what you are doing – this course is for you!
We share our best tips to help not just you, but also your less enthusiastic friends or family members, revel in the joy that can be camping done well.
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Team BuildingWe create amazing days for people – families, schools, work groups.
We have discovered over the years that what we do is ideally suited to bringing people together, of all ages and all experience and comforts. (more…)
