Wales has many treasures to offer you in these diverse landscapes! This is why we offer you to discover 3 hiking ideas!
Welcome to Wales, also called Cymru Welsh! Here, English and Welsh intersect on panels and in conversations, but no worry, you will find your way. Regardless of the season, consider planning a k-way, closed hiking shoes, enough water and food (anticipating weather hazards and unexpected), a cap (or any head covers), sunscreen and sunglasses. It’s gone for a few kilometers of greenery in this Celtic nation par excellence!
Here are 3 hiking ideas in Wales, this green country, borrowing legends and tales.
1. Hiking in Pembrokeshire
Within this national park, almost the only coastal park in Great Britain, you will have the opportunity to discover a vigorous and green nature. For cultural visits, you can admire the boathouse of the poet Dylan Thomas or the remains of the site of Pentre Ifan, megalithic people over 5000 years old.
During a stay near the city Newport in Pembroke, we had the opportunity to browse Dinas Head ( Ynys Dinas ), a small peninsula near the village of Dinas Cross. We followed the coastal path ( « coastal path » ), walking by the cliffs, refreshed by a west wind from the sea. We were able to admire magnificent views and also crossed a church-shaped wall, near what looked like a small cemetery. The girouette at its summit was agitated by the winds of the sea. Back to the parking lot, warm around a hot chocolate or refresh yourself with a local cider.
Duration : count about 1h30 to 2h walking to turn around.
Level Easy.
Access : Route A487, Dinas Cross, Prembrokeshire National Park
You have a bus service (405) that connects Cardigan, Newport and Fishguard. Make a sign, and the bus will stop! Bus schedule Poppit Rocket 405 (2018) to see here .
2. Hiking in Snowdonia
We continued our route along the Welsh Coast, leaving behind us Aberystwyth, Machynllet, Dolgellau and Beddgelert (and the tomb of the famous dog Gelert), to finally arrive in Llanberis, near Caernarfon and the island of Anglesey.
We have thus embarked on the adventure by choosing to experience it Miners Track : the Trail of Miniers. The beginning of the hike is easy: you will see sheep in freedom, landscapes combining the green of the hills and the blue of a clear sky. As the ascent climbs, the trail climbs more and more and Snowdon lets you see several lakes (Llyn Teyrn, Llyn Lydaw, Glaslyn). On the edge of the Llyn Lydaw, the largest of the lakes, you will be spoiling the ruins of a small castle or a fort.
It is after these ruins that the path winds a little more and that ascension becomes more difficult. Some parts of the mountain flank have collapsed and we need to help feet and hands to keep moving forward, but the view from the top is really worth it. Take a centime with you and insert it into the local mascot, a tree trunk without head, already beset by hundreds of pieces of all horizons!
After the ascension, we decided to go back by our own means and to descend the Snowdon by its other side, more accessible. So we spent some time riding the rails of a small train carrying other hikers in the soul and managed to reach Llanberis and our hostel ( Pete’s Eat ) in an hour's walk.
Duration : count 6h to 7h, walking a good step.
Level : Difficult – not suitable for children
Access : Pen-y-Pass – A4086. You have buses that shuttle between Llanberis and Pen-y-Pass.
Information about Snowdon Sherpa Bus , to see here .
Sherpa Bus downloadable map To see here.
Visual map of the Miners Track to see here .
3. Hiking on the Llyn Peninsula
After resting in Llanberis, we started again: towards the coast (again)! We left the Snowdonia National Park, swallowing the kilometers to Pistyll, near Nefyn, where we decided to put our tent in a campsite ( Aberafon Holiday Park ).
From this campsite we found a small path along the coast. So we went south! The coastal path offers a splendid view of the Irish Sea and the Welsh reliefs around. Oscillating between langourous path and narrow passage on the cliffs, you will arrive at a small sandy beach where you will only be able to climb and continue in the direction of the Ty Coch Inn a pub located on a micro peninsula. Here, let yourself be tempted by a hot drink (because the wind blows and stumbles!) and take a well-deserved break, in front of small boats cradled by wave agitation.
To return, we went back to the “mountain” at the foot of which the pub is anchored, and crossed the “green” of a golf course to reach the center of Nefyn, then finally our camp a little further.
Duration : 2h (going)
Level Easy.
Access : between Nefyn and Pistyll – B4417.
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