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Complete travel guide to Wales. Handpicked places including waterfalls, mountain roads, thermal springs, UNESCO sites, scenic drives and hidden gems. All with GPS coordinates.
The tarmac winds upward past 490 metres and the moorland opens in every direction. Black Mountain Pass in the Brecon Beacons has been called the Top Gear road — BBC filmed here in 2007 because it offers 24 km of pure driving with no traffic lights, roundabouts or other cars. The A4069 from Brynamman to Llangadog is South Wales' answer to an alpine pass.
GPS: 51.8, -3.867
823 square kilometres of wild mountain terrain with 15 peaks above 900 metres, 100 lakes and Britain's most dramatic ice-age landscape. Snowdonia — or Eryri in Welsh — has names older than England itself. Glaslyn lake beneath Yr Wyddfa is crystal blue, and legend says King Arthur's sword lies at the bottom.
GPS: 53.0685, -3.8958
In 1283 Edward I ordered four massive castles built in a ring around Snowdonia to crush Welsh resistance. Conwy, Caernarfon, Harlech and Beaumaris — all designed by master architect James of St George from Savoy. The most ambitious military building project in medieval Europe, and all four have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1986.
GPS: 53.1394, -4.2742
38 metres above the Dee valley in a narrow iron trough with no railing on one side. Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the world's longest and highest navigable aqueduct — 307 metres long, built by Thomas Telford in 1805. Canal boats still glide across, and passengers can look straight down into the abyss. UNESCO World Heritage since 2009.
GPS: 52.9689, -3.0886
This is where the Industrial Revolution truly began. Blaenavon in South Wales was one of the world's most important ironworks in the 1780s — the blast furnaces, workers' housing and coal mines remain as an open museum in the landscape. Big Pit mine takes you 90 metres underground with real miners as guides. UNESCO World Heritage since 2000.
GPS: 51.7833, -3.0833
An Italian fantasy village built on the Welsh coast by architect Clough Williams-Ellis from 1925 to 1975. Colourful facades, campaniles, piazzas and subtropical gardens — all with views over the Dwyryd estuary. You can stay in the original buildings and wake with Snowdonia as your backdrop. The TV series The Prisoner was filmed here in 1967.
GPS: 52.9135, -4.0994
Eight massive towers and a complete town wall still enclosing the entire medieval town. Conwy Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Edward I's masterpieces from the conquest of Wales in the 1280s. The castle towers over the River Conwy with Snowdonia as backdrop, and the town wall is 1.3 km long with 21 towers.
GPS: 53.2800, -3.8256
Europe's most impressive medieval castle. Caernarfon Castle is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with polygonal towers inspired by the walls of Constantinople. Edward I built it from 1283 as the seat of English power in Wales. Prince Charles was invested as Prince of Wales here in 1969 before 500 million TV viewers.
GPS: 53.1393, -4.2768
Built on a 60-metre cliff with views over Cardigan Bay and Snowdonia. Harlech Castle inspired the march Men of Harlech and withstood the longest siege in British history — seven years from 1461 to 1468. Edward I's most scenic fortress, where the sea once reached the very foot of the cliff.
GPS: 52.8600, -4.1091
300 km of coastal path along Britain's only coastal national park. Pembrokeshire Coast Path passes cliffs, beaches, seabird islands with puffins and seals, and medieval harbour towns. National Geographic has named it one of the world's best walks. The path runs from St Dogmaels in the north to Amroth in the south.
GPS: 52.0890, -4.6821
886 metres — South Wales' roof. Pen y Fan in the Brecon Beacons has a flat-topped summit with views over red sandstone cliffs and green valleys. The SAS uses the mountain for endurance tests — they call the route Fan Dance. The trail from Storey Arms is 6 km return and South Wales' most popular hike.
GPS: 51.8840, -3.4368
Three pointed limestone cliffs rise from the sand on Gower peninsula's south coast. Three Cliffs Bay is regularly voted Britain's most beautiful beach — and you have to walk 20 minutes to reach it, so it's never crowded. Pennard Castle ruin perches above the bay, and at low tide a broad sandy beach opens up with dunes and a river estuary.
GPS: 51.5716, -4.1128
Gothic arches against the sky in the Wye Valley. Tintern Abbey from 1131 inspired Wordsworth, Turner and the Romantic artists. The ruin is remarkably complete — the roof is gone, but the Gothic window tracery and walls stand at full height after nearly 900 years. It was the second Cistercian monastery in Britain.
GPS: 51.6971, -2.6767
A cathedral hidden in a valley. St Davids is Britain's smallest city with just 1,600 inhabitants — yet a cathedral from 1181 and a bishop's palace in ruins. Pope Callixtus II declared in 1123 that two pilgrimages to St Davids equalled one to Rome. The cathedral was deliberately built in a hollow so Vikings could not see it from the sea.
GPS: 51.8820, -5.2684
1,085 metres — the roof of Wales. Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) has six hiking routes to the summit and a rack railway from 1896 for the lazy. Edmund Hillary trained here for Everest in 1953. From the top you can see Ireland, England and Scotland on a clear day. 600,000 people climb the mountain every year.
GPS: 53.0685, -4.0762
The famous Laburnum Arch — a 55-metre tunnel of golden flowers in May-June. Bodnant Garden is one of Britain's finest gardens with five Italianate terraces, a wild glen with a mill and views over Snowdonia. Founded in 1874 and maintained by the McLaren family for four generations. National Trust since 1949.
GPS: 53.2314, -3.8009
The world's book capital. Hay-on-Wye has over 20 antiquarian bookshops in a small Welsh border town of 1,900 inhabitants. The annual Hay Festival attracts 250,000 visitors and the world's leading authors. Richard Booth declared the town independent in 1977, appointed himself king and his horse prime minister.
GPS: 52.0745, -3.1243
A solitary round tower from the 13th century by Llyn Padarn. Dolbadarn Castle was built by the Welsh princes — not the English — and guarded Llanberis Pass into the heart of Snowdonia. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd held his own brother Owain prisoner here for 22 years. Turner painted it in 1800 — and the view is still the same.
GPS: 53.1167, -4.1144
A lighthouse from 1809 on a tiny island connected to Anglesey by 400 steps down the cliff and a footbridge over the sea. South Stack is home to thousands of seabirds — puffins, razorbills and guillemots nesting in the cliff faces from April to August. Views to the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland on a clear day.
GPS: 53.3067, -4.6996
The most dramatically located castle in Wales. Carreg Cennen sits on a 90-metre limestone cliff with views over the Black Mountains and the Cennen Valley. Below the castle a narrow, dark passage leads down to a natural cave inside the cliff. The Romans used the site, Welsh princes fortified it, and the English blew it up — but the cliff still stands.
GPS: 51.8544, -3.9354
Pastel-coloured Georgian houses stacked on the cliff above a golden beach. Tenby is one of Britain's most beautiful coastal towns with intact medieval town walls, a harbour and Caldey Island just offshore. The town walls date from the 13th century and are almost completely preserved — only three towns in all of Britain have anything similar.
GPS: 51.6726, -4.7050
Three bridges built on top of each other over a deep gorge. Devil's Bridge has a Romanesque bridge from the 12th century, an 18th-century bridge and a modern bridge — all in use. The River Mynach plunges 90 metres into the chasm. Legend says the Devil built the oldest bridge in exchange for the first soul to cross — but a clever woman sent her dog across first.
GPS: 52.3769, -3.8503
An 820-metre wooden railway bridge over the Mawddach estuary. Barmouth Bridge is one of Wales' most iconic views — with Cadair Idris as backdrop and small boats in the tidal water. Built in 1867 with a metal swing section that opens for navigation. Pedestrians pay 50p to cross.
GPS: 52.7165, -4.0414
73 metres of free fall. Pistyll Rhaeadr is Wales' tallest waterfall and one of the Seven Wonders of Britain according to George Borrow. The water plunges over a cliff face and passes through a natural stone arch halfway down. The arch is not man-made — it was formed by millennia of erosion in the soft slate rock.
GPS: 52.8551, -3.3788
A suspension bridge from 1826 designed by Thomas Telford to match Conwy Castle's medieval style. The bridge has towers resembling the castle's and is one of the earliest examples of a suspension bridge in the world. The original iron chains are still intact after 200 years. The National Trust owns the bridge and the little toll-keeper's cottage at the end.
GPS: 53.2804, -3.8238
150 metres down into the mountain on Britain's steepest narrow-gauge railway. Llechwedd in Blaenau Ffestiniog has been a slate quarry since 1836 — one chamber is 62 metres tall, and the temperature holds a constant 12 degrees. Above, Bounce Below has stretched trampolines across the empty caverns. Wales' slate industry once employed 17,000 men.
GPS: 53.0048, -3.9398
An abandoned slate quarry blasted open to the sea in 1910. The water is 25 metres deep, surrounded by black cliff walls, and the slate gives it an intense blue-green colour. Red Bull Cliff Diving held a World Series event here with dives from 27 metres. Coasteering, cliff jumping and kayaking along the Pembrokeshire coast.
GPS: 51.9379, -5.2092
Welsh name: Ffos Anoddun — 'the Otherworld's chasm'. The River Conwy squeezes through a narrow gorge of moss-covered rock walls with whirlpools and cascades. Legend says the sounds of the water are the fairies' music, and the place is a portal to the Other World. Two kilometres from Betws-y-Coed in the heart of Snowdonia.
GPS: 53.0696, -3.7900
1,728 megawatts in 16 seconds. Dinorwig is Britain's largest pumped-storage power station — built inside Elidir Fawr mountain at Llanberis. 12 million tonnes of rock were removed to create a machine hall 180 metres long and 51 metres tall. Construction took 10 years and cost 425 million pounds. The guided tour takes you 500 metres into the mountain.
GPS: 53.1198, -4.1231
200 species of seashells on one beach — and the road there floods at high tide, stranding you for six hours. Shell Island (Mochras) in Cardigan Bay is a 450-acre peninsula with Europe's largest campsite, 13 species of wild orchids and a south beach stretching all the way to Barmouth. Wild, free and without rules.
GPS: 52.8177, -4.1445
17 kilometres of passages — Western Europe's largest showcave complex. Dan-yr-Ogof in the Brecon Beacons was discovered in 1912 by two brothers with candles. Bone Cave holds the remains of 42 Bronze Age people. Cathedral Cave has a 5.5-metre curtain formation and stalactites reaching 15 metres. Voted Britain's greatest natural wonder.
GPS: 51.8311, -3.6866
Five kilometres of golden sand curved beneath Worm's Head — a tidal headland shaped like a sea serpent. Rhossili Bay on the Gower peninsula is repeatedly voted Britain's best beach. The wreck of the Helvetia from 1887 protrudes from the sand at low tide. Over 300 shipwrecks are documented in the bay.
GPS: 51.5690, -4.2870
Sleep at the summit and wake as a poet or a madman — that is the Welsh myth of Cadair Idris. 893 metres above the Mawddach valley with the glacial lake Llyn Cau in a dramatic crater-shaped cwm. The Minffordd path takes 5-6 hours and is southern Snowdonia's finest hike.
GPS: 52.6998, -3.9087
Edward I's last and most perfect castle — never completed, but a technical masterpiece. Beaumaris is the most symmetrical concentric castle in the world with a moat once connected directly to the sea. Up to 3,500 workers built it at peak season. UNESCO World Heritage on Anglesey.
GPS: 53.2648, -4.0898
A 207-metre limestone headland rising above Llandudno like a giant whale. Great Orme has Britain's only cable-hauled tramway from 1902, Bronze Age copper mines from 3,500 years ago with over 8 km of explored tunnels, and a herd of Kashmir goats roaming freely through the streets.
GPS: 53.3331, -3.8530
The landing is just a short boat ride from Martin's Haven, but you step into another world. Skomer is home to over 43,000 pairs of Atlantic puffins nesting in rabbit burrows from April to July. The island also holds half the world's Manx shearwaters — 350,000 pairs that only fly in and out at night.
GPS: 51.7375, -5.2967
Five Victorian stone dams stacked in a remote valley in mid-Wales. Elan Valley was built in the 1890s to supply Birmingham with water — 117 km away, by gravity alone. Over 100 people were forcibly displaced. Barnes Wallis tested his bouncing bomb here during World War II. Today it is a dark sky reserve with red kites.
GPS: 52.2682, -3.5772
Copper sulphate from the mountains gives the Glaslyn river an intense turquoise colour. The river squeezes through a narrow gorge with vertical cliff walls covered in ancient oak forest — 3 km along the riverbank from Beddgelert. The old Welsh Highland Railway route with tunnels through the pass is now one of Snowdonia's finest walks.
GPS: 52.9978, -4.0944
A circular mountain lake beneath a 150-metre red sandstone cliff on the western edge of the Brecon Beacons. Legend's Lady of the Lake rose from the water here and married a local farmer — but vanished when he struck her three times. Her sons became the famous Physicians of Myddfai, a medical dynasty linked to the Welsh princely court.
GPS: 51.8818, -3.7415
Europe's second-tallest sand dune — 60 metres above sea level, only surpassed by Dune du Pilat in France. Merthyr Mawr Warren is a wild desert-like world 10 minutes from Bridgend with 12 orchid species and rare butterflies. David Lean filmed Lawrence of Arabia scenes here in 1962 with Peter O'Toole.
GPS: 51.4800, -3.6425